Associate Professor and Full Professor (Livre-Docente) at the Department of Psychiatry of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp) and a researcher in the field of psychiatric genetics. She graduated in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Mogi das Cruzes and holds a master’s and PhD in Human and Medical Genetics from Unifesp, with a research internship at the University of Pennsylvania (USA) and postdoctoral training in Psychiatry.

She currently coordinates the Graduate Program in Psychiatry and Medical Psychology and the Integrative Neuroscience Laboratory (LINC) at Unifesp, as well as the Genetics/Biorepository area of CISM, linked to the Precision Neuroscience module.

Internationally, she is the Latin America representative in the Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium (PGC) and co-leader of the Schizophrenia Group of the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC). In 2024, she received the Outstanding Researcher Award from the Social Impact Program at the Brazil Conference at Harvard & MIT (USA).