She received her PhD in 2014 from the International Relations Institute at the University of São Paulo (IRI-USP), defending the thesis “Promise is debt: compliance in the Inter-American Human Rights System”. Her main areas of research and intellectual production focus on the Inter-American Human Rights System and on Human Rights Education. Currently, she heads the research project entitled “Inter-American Human Rights: the gap between commitment and compliance,” funded by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) from Brazil, which seeks to define parameters to measure the compliance gap in the region in order to analyze effectiveness in the Inter-American Human Rights System.