Graduate in Chemistry at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Master of Science in Chemistry and Doctor in Sciences (Physical Chemistry) at Federal University of São Carlos, with Post-doctoral stages in Physical Chemistry at Bath University, UK (1998) and in Soil Chemistry at University of Poitiers, France (2013). Undergraduate student of Biological Sciences at Federal University of Santa Maria (2017- in progress). She has experience in Chemistry, focusing on Physical Chemistry. Today she is an associated professor of the Department of Physics of the Federal University of Santa Maria and, since 2006, is acting on Environmental Sciences in collaboration with researchers of the Agronomy area.