Productivity Fellow in Technological Development and Innovative Extension (CNPq DT 1D) and serves as Associate Editor of the international journal Chemical Engineering Communications (Q2, 2024 impact factor: 2.0). She earned her Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Maria in 2002, a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in 2004, and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the same institution in 2009. During her doctoral studies, she received a DAAD scholarship and conducted two years of research at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Currently, she is an Associate Professor IV in the Undergraduate Program in Chemical Engineering and a permanent faculty member of the Graduate Programs in Chemical and Production Engineering at the Federal University of Santa Maria. She has an h-index of 27 (SCOPUS), over 100 publications in indexed international journals, and has graduated 7 PhD students, 23 Masters students, and mentored more than 50 undergraduate research students. She has also developed and registered 11 computer programs, and her research has been supported by a range of funding agencies and industrial collaborators, including CNPq, CAPES, FINEP, and FAPERGS. Her research expertise spans Chemical Engineering with a focus on Industrial Processes, including the synthesis and characterization of catalysts and adsorbents, production of biofuels and olefins through gas- and liquid-phase catalytic reactions, separation processes for the recovery and purification of organic molecules, with emphasis on biofuels and alternative fuels, evaluation of energy efficiency and environmental performance of biofuels and alternative fuels in internal combustion engines, and advanced computational modeling of separation processes, chemical kinetics, and combustion kinetics.