Maria Fatima Ludovico de Almeida has worked as a Professor of the Graduate Program in Metrology at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. She has a Ph.D. degree in Production Engineering from PUC-Rio (Brazil), and she obtained her M.Sc. degree from the Victoria University of Manchester (United Kingdom) and the Diplôme dÉtudes Approfondies (DEA) from the Universite Aix-Marseille III (France). She has a BSc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She joined Petrobras and worked until 2006 as a technical consultant in strategic planning, technology management and innovation. http://lattes.cnpq.br/0685708886758224 ID Lattes: 0685708886758224