Anna Eliza Svartman Dias graduated from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) in 2004 with a degree in geology. She obtained a master?s degree in basin analysis, with a specialization in organic geochemistry and chemostratigraphy from UERJ in 2006. In late 2004, she joined Petrobras exploration team working on basin and petroleum systems analysis applied to Brazilian basins and other basins worldwide. The work as a basin modeler provided an opportunity for Anna to explore two strong personal interests: using interdisciplinary approach to study natural systems and working with applied science. In 2015, she received her PhD degree in Geodynamics from the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin) for her research on lithospheric extension and continental margins evolution supervised by Professor Luc Lavier. Currently, she works as a petroleum and fluid systems expert integrating geodynamics, geochemistry, geological studies and numerical modeling towards improving the exploration risk assessment, the volumetric and economic appraisal - from initial block acquisition studies (regional scale) to well drilling (local scale) - and post-mortem evaluations. That work comprises her participation in multidisciplinary teams interacting with geologists, geophysicists, geochemists and petroleum engineers from Petrobras and from other (partners) oil companies. Her work has been mostly focused on Pre-salt opportunities.Besides her work in the exploration team, she also works: at Petrobras in-house research projects about passive margins evolution, organic geochemistry, paleothermometers and predicting petroleum quality; contributing to the development and testing of an in-house petroleum system modeling software; and, as instructor and coordinator of quantitative basin analysis and petroleum systems training courses for geologists and geophysicists at Petrobras University.Research interests: subsidence and thermal history of rifted margins, fluid-rock interactions and its role in the evolution of rifted margins, relationship between deformation from microstructures to outcrop to regional scale, thermochronology, paleothermometers, petroleum systems, salt tectonics, organic geochemistry, geochemical cycling, and stable isotope geochemistry.
