Criminal Justice, Science and Fundamental Rights (JPCD) 

Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Constitutional Law and in the Undergraduate Law Program at the Brazilian Institute of Teaching, Development and Research (IDP). Professor in the Professional Master's Program at IDP/SP. Researcher at the Human Rights Observatory (IDP/CNPq). Completed a Postdoctoral internship (CNPq Scholarship – INCT Forense) in the Postgraduate Program in Criminal Sciences at PUCRS in 2024 and at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo (FFCLRP/USP) from April 2022 to April 2024 (CNPq Scholarship). PhD – with honors – in Criminal Sciences from PUCRS (2021). Professor in various specializations in Criminal Procedural Law. She was the Deputy State Coordinator of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences (IBCCRIM) in Rio Grande do Sul in 2022 and Coordinator of the Criminal Sciences Laboratory of IBCCRIM/RS in 2023. She is a member of the Brazilian Society of Forensic Sciences (SBCF), the Brazilian Academy of Forensic Sciences (ABCF), the Transdisciplinary Institute of Criminal Sciences (!TEC), and the Eduardo Correia Institute (IEDC). She is a collaborating member of the Forensic Expertise Commission of the OAB/PE (Brazilian Bar Association, Pernambuco chapter). She holds a Master's degree in Cellular and Molecular Biology from PUCRS (2018), a specialization in Criminal Expertise and Forensic Sciences (2017), in Criminal Procedural Law, in Evidence Law in Criminal Proceedings, and a Bachelor's degree in Biomedicine from UFRGS (2014), with a specialization in Molecular Biology and Toxicology. She is a lawyer at the law firm Gustavo Mascarenhas e Vinícius Vasconcellos Advogados, in Brasília.

She holds a bachelor's degree (2003) and a master's degree (2006) in Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and a doctorate (2011) in Sociology from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), initially at the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (formerly IUPERJ). From August 2008 to August 2009, she was a fellow of the Doctoral Program with Internship Abroad (PDEE-CAPES) and a visiting researcher at the University of Miami School of Law (UM), under the supervision of Susan Haack. In 2011, she joined the Department of Legal Theory at the National Law School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FND/UFRJ) as an Adjunct Professor. Subsequently, she became an Associate Professor at FND and a Permanent Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (PPGD/UFRJ). Between 2022 and 2025, she held the position of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the Adolfo Ibáñez University (UAI), Viña del Mar, Chile. She has experience in the field of Law, with an emphasis on Philosophy and Theory of Law, working on the following topics: legal epistemology, legal argumentation, evidentiary law, expertise, expert evidence, epistemic injustices, and pragmatism (philosophy of Charles S. Peirce). She is co-leader of the Research Group on Epistemology Applied to Courts (GREAT) and the Interinstitutional Group on Philosophy and Theory of Law (GIFT); a member of the Advisory Board of the Instituto Questão de Ciência; and a member of the Latin American Network of Legal Epistemology and the Brazilian Institute of Law and Evidentiary Reasoning (IBDRP). She took maternity leave in the second half of 2017.

She is an associate professor, level 2, in the Department of Chemistry at the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto/USP. She holds: a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry from UFSCar; a Master's degree in Chemistry from UNICAMP; a Doctorate in Sciences from UNICAMP; postdoctoral studies in Biophysics (IBILCE/UNESP) and Theoretical Chemistry (IQSC/USP); an MBA in Environmental Planning and Management from Cândido Mendes University; and a Bachelor's degree in Law from Paulista University (UNIP), having passed the Brazilian Bar Association exam. She is a founder of the Brazilian Society of Forensic Sciences (SBCF) and served as its president from 2017 to 2019. She was a mentor and collaborator at the startup Sci-Prediction, which was incubated at SUPERA Parque (Technology-Based Business Incubator) from 2020 to 2024. Research internship abroad: Texas Southern University, Barbara Jordan/Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs (Houston, USA). MBA in Data Science Analytics (ESALQ-USP). She has been an advisor for the Forensic Science League at FCFRP-USP since 2024. Research areas: Forensic Science, In silico methods applied to forensic problems, Ballistics, Data Analysis.

Holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the Military Institute of Engineering (2004), a specialization in Petroleum Processing Engineering from Petrobras University (2007), a specialization in Document Examination from the National Police Academy (2014), and a specialization in Statistics applied to the Evaluation of Forensic Evidence (2022). Currently works as a federal criminal expert with the Federal Police. His main areas of expertise include: document examination and handwriting analysis. He is interested in the following topics: philosophy of science, interpretation of scientific evidence, forensic errors, and ethics in forensic practice.