About Me

I take pride in my problem-solving, teamwork, and communication skills, and in my flexibility to address different industrial needs as part of multidisciplinary and multi-cultural teams. 

 

I am a Business and Research Development Officer at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. I create strategic alliances that bridge academia and industry to drive innovation and develop practical, impactful solutions, building on my extensive experience fostering collaborative research partnerships.

 

I am also a Research Affiliate of the B. John Garrick Institute for the Risk Sciences at the University of California Los Angeles (GIRS-UCLA), where I was a Research Scientist for almost four years before my current position at the University of Toronto. As a Research Scientist, I secured funding from competitive grants and industry stakeholders and directed several industry-relevant safety projects, developing and applying advanced methodologies for human reliability analysis (HRA) and risk assessment. As a Research Affiliate, I continue collaborating with the Institute on complex systems modeling, risk assessment, and human reliability research projects.

 

Before joining GIRS-UCLA, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway, where I worked at the Marine Technology Risk, Safety and Asset Management Group and focused on autonomous vessels risk assessment and human-system interaction modeling. 

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I hold a Ph.D. (2017') in Chemical Engineering from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil. I developed my Ph.D. research at the Center for Risk Analysis, Reliability Engineering and Environmental Modeling (CEERMA), where I conducted research on Human Reliabilty Analysis for the Oil and Gas industry and was a Risk Analyst on Quantitative Risk Analysis projects for large Oil Refineries.

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