Graduated in Chemical Engineering (1995), Master's degree (1998) and PhD (2002) in Mechanical Engineering from the Federal University of Uberlândia. In 2015/2016, postdoctoral fellow at North Carolina State University (NC State), Raleigh (USA), in the area of Innovation Management. Since 2007, she is a professor at the Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), in the Department of Production and Mechanical Engineering (DEP), where she is currently Head of Department. She is coordinator of the Fapemig Public Policy Advisory Board. She is a professor of the Professional Master in Technological Innovation and Intellectual Property (MPITIP) of UFMG and the Master of Economics of UFV. She is Coordinator of the lato sensu postgraduate course in Production Management and was coordinator of Occupational Safety Engineering. She is a tutor of the Tutorial Education Program (PET) of the production engineering course. From 2011 to 2015 at UFV, she was Director of the Technology Park of Viçosa (tecnoPARQ); from 2007 to 2011, she was the tecnoPARQ's Startup Leader. She was a member of the UFV Permanent Intellectual Property Commission (CPPI / NIT), from 2008-2015. She was Director of the Rede Mineira de Inovação (RMI), during 2013/2014. She was Director of the Brazilian Association of Production Engineering (Abepro), during 2010/2011, where she currently participates in the Undergraduate Working Group. Hers priority areas are: innovation management and product development. She is the leader of the research and technology extension group Núcleo de Tecnologias de Gestão (NTG)