Karina dos Santos Machado holds a degree in Computer Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Rio Grande (FURG) and a Master's and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Between 2018 and 2019, she worked as a postdoctoral fellowship in the NANO-D research group at INRIA in Grenoble, France. She is currently a Lecturer at FURG, where she coordinates the COMBI-Lab (Computational Biology Laboratory). Her research focuses primarily on Bioinformatics and Data Science, including the following topics: Genomics, Machine Learning, Virtual Drug Screening, Molecular Docking, and Molecular Dynamics.