She has a degree in Computer Engineering from the Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG (2004); obtained her MSc (2007) and PhD degrees (2012) in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS. She was a substitute professor at the Department of Applied Informatics of UFRGS and a post-doc researcher at the Department of Informatics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio. Her main research interests are Recommender Systems, Linked Data, Information Retrieval, Social Networks and Semantic Web.