Bachelor’s at Mechatronics Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (1997), master (2000) and doctorate (2004) at Mechanical Engineering also from Universidade de São Paulo. From 2005, she is professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, in the area of mechatronics engineering and aerospace systems. Her research is related to (1) specification, verification and validation of critical embedded systems, (2) design of industrial automation solutions, with emphasis in robotics, and (3) human factors in aeronautics.