Bachelor of Biotechnology from the Federal University of Alfenas (UNIFAL-MG). As an undergraduate student, she received a CAPES scholarship from the Young Talents for Science Program, when she acquired experience in oxidative stress and genotoxicity. She was also a CAPES scholar of academic mobility by the Science Without Borders Program, in which she studied Biotechnology at the University of California, Irvine / CA (USA) and did an internship at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University, College Station / TX ( USA). She has a master's degree from the Graduate Program in Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and is currently a PhD student by the same program. Her research investigates the discovery of novel natural products-based antimalarial drugs using in silico strategies and experimental models in vitro and in vivo.