Archaeologist (UNESA 1994) and Doctor in Public Health from the Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública/FIOCRUZ (2004), she holds a specialist degree in Paleopathology (1994) and an MA in Public Health (1997) from ENSP/FIOCRUZ. She is an adjunct professor in the Biological Anthropological section of the Anthropology Department of the National Museum/UFRJ. She conducts research in the field of biological anthropology with a focus on bioarchaeology. Her work emphasizes bioarchaeology and paleopathology, though she is also interested in questions relating to human evolution and forensic anthropology. She is responsible for several courses in the Graduate Archaeology Program at the National Museum and in the course for specialization in Quaternary Geology at the same institution. She also teaches in the Biomedical Sciences undergraduate program at UFRJ. She is currently the Director of the National Museum/UFRJ.
Follow the link to her CV here.