Arlene G. Corrêa received her B.Sc. (1985) and M.Sc. (1988) degrees from the Federal University of São Carlos (Brazil) and conducted her undergraduate research with Professor Ursula Brocksom. After two years as a postgraduate student in Professor Andrew Greene's group at the University Joseph Fourier in Grenoble (France), she received her Ph.D. degree in 1991, supervised by Professor Timothy Brocksom, from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), where she became an assistant professor in 1992. She joined the group of Professor Paul Wender at Stanford University (USA) as a visiting scholar from 1996 to 1997, then was appointed full professor at UFSCar in 2014, and is currently the Director of the FAPESP Centre of Excellence for Research in Sustainable Chemistry (CERSusChem).