Graduated in civil engineering from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (1993), master’s in civil engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1996), and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2002). He carried out his post-doctoral internship from June 2002 to August 2003 at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. She served for six years as an associate professor at the State University of Norte Fluminense Darcy Ribeiro and is currently an associate professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. Has experience in civil engineering, focusing on structures, acting on the following subjects: structural dynamics, structural mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, finite element method, finite volume method,  and computational modeling.