Associate Professor IV in the Department of Communication Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), RS and in the Postgraduate Programme in Communication at the Federal University of Santa Maria. She was substitute coordinator of the Programme (2021-2023), head of the Department and coordinator of the Journalism course. At UFSM, she has been coordinating teaching, research and extension projects since 2010. She is currently working on the research project Societies in mediatisation: circulation, discourses and platforms; the extension project Sports Radar in multiplatform and the teaching project Development of accessible practices in the production of a laboratory magazine. She supervises doctoral and master's students, as well as students completing their coursework and undergraduate research. She coordinates the research group Media Circulation and Communication Strategies (Cimid). She has a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2007), with a scholarship from the Porticus Programme for Research in Media Religion and Culture (USA), under the supervision of Professor Antonio Fausto Neto. Master's degree in Human Movement Science from UFSM (2002), in the area of media and sport, under the supervision of Professor Antonio Fausto Neto. Journalist graduated from UFSM (1998), with her final course work supervised by Paulo Roberto Oliveira Araújo. She was a member of the PET Social Communication Group from 1996 to 1998, tutored by Professor Adair Caetano Peruzzolo. From August 2015 to February 2016, she carried out a post-doctoral research internship abroad with a CAPES grant in the area of Communication at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the New University of Lisbon, Portugal, with Professor João Pissarra Esteves as her supervisor. He is part of inter-institutional research projects at national and international level. He develops and supervises research in the following areas: mediatisation, circulation and social practices; enunciation and production of meanings; production, circulation and recognition of discourses; complexities in the relationship between media and social actors on different platforms; contemporary religiosities; mediatisation, politics and elections; development of methodological experiments using software;