Graduated in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (2007). Licentiate in technology (2009) and Ph.D. in technology (Ph.D.) from the University of Uppsala (Sweden), in 2011. He has experience in the field of electrical engineering, with an emphasis on systems control and power electronics applied to energy storage and renewable energies. She worked as a researcher at the GE Research Center in Rio de Janeiro, GE Global Research Center, between 2012 and 2013. She is currently an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais. Mother of one daughter, she was on maternity leave between December 2016 and August 2017.