She is an Assistant Professor in the Statistics Department at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics (2013) and a Master's degree in Production Engineering (2015) from UFSM, and earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil (2017). She completed a visiting research period at the University of Pavia, Italy (2023), is an Affiliate Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) for 20242028, a grantee of the Serrapilheira Institute, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). In 2023, she received the ISI Jan Tinbergen Award Division A, and in 2024 was selected as a Young Ambassador of the ISI and the International Biometric Society (IBS) at the 32nd International Biometric Conference. In 2025, she was the winner in the mathematics category of the Brazilian Edition of the For Women in Science Award, granted by L'OréalUNESCOABC. Her research interests include survival analysis, econometrics, distribution theory, and statistical image/signal processing. She is also a coordinator of the StatUFSM project, an outreach initiative that aims to make statistical science accessible to society through digital platforms, and contributes to the GuriasTec UFSM project, which promotes the participation and retention of women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.