Pharmacist, Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Post-Doc at the “Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy” in Villejuif, France. Biochemistry Professor at UFCSPA and Coordinator of the Genetic Toxicology Laboratory since 2009. Her main research area is DNA repair and mutagenesis in eukaryotic cells, focusing on the involvement of the DNA repair mechanisms in the cytotoxicity of antitumor drugs and the DNA damage response in cancer, presenting more than 100 international papers published in the field. She was a member of the National Committee of Biosafety (CTNBio, Brazil; 2014-2020).