I hold a B.Sc. in Forest Engineering from the Universidade do Estado do Amapá (UEAP) and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Botany from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA).

During my undergraduate studies, I spent four years involved in research projects coordinated by Embrapa Amapá, focusing on plant–pathogen interaction epidemiology, seed morphology and physiology, seedling growth of tree species, and forest ecology and management aimed at the multiple-use of Amazonian floodplain forests in the estuarine region. Since 2015, I have been a collaborating researcher at the Seed Laboratory (LabSem/INPA), where I conduct and co-supervise morphological and taxonomic studies on Sapotaceae, Lecythidaceae, and Copaifera (Fabaceae) in the Amazon.

In 2022, I joined the Ecology, Monitoring, and Sustainable Use of Wetlands research group (MAUA/INPA) as a research fellow (CNPq/DTI-A), where I gained experience in floristic inventories, botanical identification, and the collection of spectral and functional trait data for tree species across different Amazonian ecosystems (terra firme, igapó, and campinarana). Within MAUA, I am also involved in the SpectraPop and HerbSpectra-Amazônia projects, part of the INPA Herbarium Spectroscopy Hub, which aim to promote and advance the use of near-infrared spectroscopy for plant identification based on herbarium collections.

I collaborate with several national and international networks and initiatives, including the Amazon Tree Diversity Network (ATDN), Tropical Seed Trait Database (TSTD), International Herbarium Spectral Digitization Working Group (IHerbSpec), and World Flora Online (Sapotaceae WFO Taxonomic Expert Network). I also maintain collaborations with researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (Spain), the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (PDBFF/INPA), Embrapa Amapá, and UEAP.

My main research interests include the taxonomy and systematics of Amazonian tree flora (particularly Sapotaceae), spectroscopy applied to species identification, species distribution modeling (SDM), floristic studies, and forest ecology. Pronouns: she/her/hers.

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