She obtained her PhD in Physics from the University of São Paulo in 2007, and had a Humboldt Fellowship during her postdoctoral assignment at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany, from 2007 to 2009, when she returned to Brazil to start working at UFABC. Her research focuses on the study of small perturbations of compact astrophysical objects, such as black holes and neutron stars. The recent detections of gravitational waves are helping to bridge the gap between her work on mathematical aspects of general relativity and astrophysical observations. She currently has collaborations with the Universities of Maryland, Frankfurt and Tokyo.