Architect and Urban Planner from UFRJ, holds a Master’s degree (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) in Urban Planning and its Territories from the Institute of Urban Planning of Paris (IUP), Université Paris XII (2005); a Ph.D. in Spatial Planning and Urban Planning from the French Institute of Urban Planning (IFU), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (2011); and a Post-Doctorate in Urban Anthropology from Universidade Federal Fluminense (2015). She was the academic coordinator of the undergraduate Architecture and Urbanism course at PUC-Rio (2015-2017). She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at PUC-Rio (DAU/PUC-Rio) and its Postgraduate Program in Architecture (PPGArq/PUC-Rio). She has been an associate researcher at the Metropolitan Ethnography Laboratory (LeMetro/IFCS-UFRJ) and the National Institute of Science and Technology for Comparative Studies in Institutional Conflict Administration (INCT/InEAC-UFF) since 2012. Her experience spans the fields of Architecture and Urbanism, Sociology, and Urban Anthropology, with an emphasis on urban planning, territorial policy, and the development of popular housing in the city of Rio de Janeiro. She conducts research projects on forms of space appropriation in housing and public space. She is also the leader of the Research Group Habited Space Laboratory (LObE-HAB), registered with DGP/CNPq, in partnership with researcher Fernando Esposito Galarce, since 2018. Since August 2019, she has served as the coordinator of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Humanities, a sector of the Dean’s Office of the Center for Theology and Human Sciences (IEAHu/CTCH/PUC-Rio), aimed at consolidating actions for the development of research projects and interdisciplinary and interinstitutional academic activities in the Humanities.
