Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (FAU/UFRJ), she conducts interdisciplinary research on urban resilience, sustainable urban drainage, flood risk mitigation, blue–green–gray infrastructure, and climate change adaptation in the built environment, with emphasis on coastal and flood-prone cities. She holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from UFRJ. Her doctoral thesis received the IV Oscar Niemeyer Prize awarded by CREA-RJ. Her work integrates hydrodynamic modeling, nature-based solutions, urban water governance, and stakeholder perception to support evidence-based strategies for climate adaptation. In the last five years, she has published 29 peer-reviewed journal articles, including papers in high-impact journals, accumulating 976 citations in Scopus (h-index 13).