Is currently a Full Professor with the Military Institute of Engineering, Brazilian Army, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications engineering from the Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, Brazil, in 1986, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil, in 1995. She has been involved in the fields of Optical Communication and Sensors, more specifically with optical devices and systems, free-space optics communications, optical amplifiers, and fiber sensors. Prof. Giraldi is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Microwaves, Optoelectronics and Electromagnetic Applications, a journal published by the Brazilian Microwave and Optoelectronics Society and the Brazilian Electromagnetics Society.