Dr. Izabel F. Machado graduated from the University of São Paulo in metallurgical engineering (1992); she also got both her master's degree (1995) and PhD (1999) at the University of São Paulo (USP). In 2001, she became a faculty member of USP and currently holds the position of full professor in the Mechatronics and Mechanical System Engineering Department at USP, and co-coordinates the Surface Phenome Lab. She has researched materials characterization, phase transformations in alloys, and mechanical and tribological behavior of materials, focusing on applications and manufacturing process analysis, which were conducted both experimentally and numerically simulated. Regarding materials evaluation, this has impacted the machinability study and its relationship with the microstructures and mechanical behavior. She has also conducted research on sintering using spark plasma sintering (SPS), using metal alloys and ceramics for different applications, including tools. For 6 months in 2019 she was a visiting professor at the University of California-Davis and worked on SPS applications. She was an editor at the Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering until 2023.