I hold a B.Sc. in Forest Engineering from the State University of Amapá (UEAP) and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany from the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA). During my undergraduate studies, I spent four years collaborating on research projects at Embrapa Amapá, working on plant–pathogen epidemiology, seed morphology and physiology, seedling growth of tree species, and forest ecology and management focused on the multiple-use systems of Amazonian várzea forests.

I later served as a research fellow (CNPq/DTI-A) with the Ecology, Monitoring, and Sustainable Use of Wetlands Group (MAUA/INPA), where I gained experience in floristic inventories, botanical identification, and the collection of spectral and functional trait data for tree species across Amazonian ecosystems (terra-firme, igapó, and campinarana forests). Since 2015, I have been a collaborating researcher at the INPA Seed Laboratory (LabSem), conducting and co-supervising morphological and taxonomic studies on Sapotaceae, Lecythidaceae, and Copaifera (Fabaceae) from the Amazon.

I am currently a research fellow (CNPq/DTI-A) at the INPA Herbarium, working on the SpectraPop and HerbSpectra-Amazon projects (as part of Spectral Biodiversity Study Group – Biodivspec), which aim to promote and strengthen the use of near-infrared spectroscopy for plant identification based on herbarium specimens. I also collaborate with national and international networks and working groups, including the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN), the Tropical Seed Trait Database (TSTD), International Herbarium Spectral Digitization (IHerbSpec), and the Sapotaceae WFO Taxonomic Expert Network (Sapotaceae TEN). In addition, I maintain active collaborations with researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, Germany), the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC, Spain), the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (PDBFF/INPA), Embrapa Amapá, and the State University of Amapá (UEAP).

My main research interests include the taxonomy and systematics of Amazonian trees (especially Sapotaceae); spectroscopy applied to species identification; species distribution modeling (SDM) to assess the impacts of climate change on plant distributions across spatial scales; floristic studies; and forest ecology. Pronouns: she/her/hers.

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