She received her Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010, from the Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM, Brazil. During her undergraduation studies, she worked with wind power at the Power Electronics and Control Research Group, GEPOC, at UFSM. She received her Master and Doctor degrees in 2012 and 2015, respectively, from the same university She received scholarships from the brazilian government agencies CNPq (National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development) from 2007-2010 as an undergraduation student, from CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) from 2010-2012 during her Master Degree, and from CNPq again, from 2012-2016 during her Doctorate and Post-Doctorate studies. Se was chair of the UFSM IEEE Student Branch and of the UFSM IEEE IAS SB Chapter. She was Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM - Campus Cachoeira do Sul, from 2016 to 2018 . Currently, she is Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria, UFSM - Campus Santa Maria, researcher at the Power Electronics and Control Group - GEPOC, Permanent Professor at the Graduate Program on Electrincal Engineering - PPGEE at UFSM, and member of the of the IEEE Power Electronics, IEEE Industrial Electronics and IEEE Industry Application Societies, as well as of the Brazilian Society of Power Electronics (Sobraep). Her research interests include control and modulation of static power converters, multilevel converters, power electronics for renewable energies, microgrids and model predictive control.