Besides this, she has coordinated and is a team member of several national and international research projects. She received a BS in Chemical Engineering (1986), a MS in Chemistry (1992) and a PhD in Chemistry (1996) from Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil. She started to work with near infrared spectroscopy in 2002. In this field, her research interests are mainly: chemometrics, PAT, and development of analytical methods for fuel, forensic and pharmaceutical applications.