Holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University (2006). She is an associate professor at the Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo. She has taught courses in the International Relations Program at the University of Pennsylvania, where she completed her Postdoctoral Research (2007-2008), and at the Department of Political Science at New York University. She conducted research at Perry World House in 2017. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Law and a Master's degree in Political Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco.
Currently, she is a member of the Network on the Regulation of International Trade (associated with the WTO Chair) and the Inter-American Human Rights Network. She is a researcher at NECI and CAENI at the University of São Paulo. She has published on "compliance," the design of international regimes, economic sanctions—with an emphasis on the consequences of economic sanctions for the protection of human rights—on remittances and human rights.
She co-edited, with Alberto do Amaral Junior and Luciana de Oliveira, the book The WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism: A Developing Country Perspective (Springer, 2018). Her current research themes include the crisis of liberal democracy, the design of international regimes, human rights, emerging democracies, the WTO, and "compliance."

Research line:

• International Political Economy

Research areas:

• Multilateralism and the Crisis of the Liberal Order
• International Political Economy
• Dispute Settlement in the WTO
• Human Rights
• International Regimes

Courses taught in the Bachelor's Degree in International Relations:

• BRI0012 - Introduction to Political Science for International Relations
• BRI0045 - International Regimes in Comparative Perspective
• BRI0053 - The Political Dimension of Human Rights Protection
• BRI0087 - International Relations Issues and Human Rights
• BRI0115 - Business and Human Rights

Courses taught in the Graduate Programme in International Relations:

• PRI5083 - Current Challenges of the Liberal International Order