Postdoctoral research fellow (CAPES-PrInt), she holds a PhD and a Master's degree from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program in International Relations (Unesp/ Unicamp/ PUC-SP), and a Bachelor?s degree in State Sciences (Ciências do Estado) from the Minas Gerais Federal University (UFMG). CAPES scholarship holder also through the master's and phD degree, she has been a visiting exchange student at the Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay) with funding provided by the AUGM Programa de Escala de Pos Grado (2015), and a visiting doctoral fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies - GIGA, in Hamburg, Germany with a CAPES PDSE Scholarship (2018-2019). She is a member of the Research Network on Foreign Policy and Regionalism (REPRI) and the Regionalism Observatory. Has research experience in the area of regional integration and regionalism, investigating mainly processes in Latin America and Africa through comparative regionalism, with a work focus on overlapping organizations and interventions.