She holds a PhD in Public Health Nutrition from the University of São Paulo (USP). She is an assistant professor at the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, USP, and a researcher at the Center for Epidemiological Research in Nutrition and Health (Nupens/USP). She is an advisor in the Graduate Program in the Public Health Nutrition Program (FSP/USP). She has great interest in the study of the effects of transnational and ultraprocessing of food on the conditions of life and health of the populations. In 2017, she was on maternity leave.