Graduated in Veterinary Medicine at the Federal University of Parana, Brazil, in 2010. Afterwards she was a fellow of the Veterinary Medicine Residency Program in Zoonosis and Public Health, also in Brazil, where she performed research and laboratory diagnosis of zoonotic diseases such as rabies, leptospirosis, leishmaniasis, toxoplasmosis, Chagas disease and brucellosis in animals. She obtained both her masters and PhD in public health epidemiology at the Instituto de Saude Coletiva at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, in 2014 and 2018. Since then, she has been working as a Researcher with the Morrison Swine Health Monitoring Project at the University of Minnesota. Her current work involves using molecular epidemiology approaches to investigate patterns of disease transmission and viral evolution.