Graduated in Biological Sciences (Biomedicine) at Federal University of Pará (2002), with a University Recognition Order. She received a PhD in Biology of Infectious Agents from Federal University of Pará (2009) and postdoctoral degree from University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston, USA) in 2017. Between 2004 and 2010, she was a consultant for UNESCO and PAHO, working at Evandro Chagas Institute. Since 2011 she holds the position of Researcher in Public Health at the Evandro Chagas Institute in the Department of Arbovirology and Hemorrhagic Fevers. She is Research Productivity Fellow (PQ-2) and affiliate member of the Brazilian Academy of Science (2018-2022). She has experience in molecular biology, working mainly in the following subjects: taxonomic characterization of new Arbovirus; epidemiological study of Arbovirus, hantavirus and rabies virus; development of laboratory tests for arbovirus and hantavirus diagnosis; development of vaccines against the zika virus.