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She holds a bachelor's degree in Informatics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (1990), a master's degree in Computer Science from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1994), a master's degree from Cours Postgrade En Informatique Realité Virtuelle - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (1997), doctorate in Doctorat En Science - Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland (2000) and postdoctoral degree at the University of Pennsylvannia - USA in 2016. She is currently an adjunct professor at the Polytechnic School of PUCRS, guiding undergraduate students, masters, doctorates and postdoc fellows. Her research has an emphasis on Graphic Processing (Graphics), mainly in the following subjects: computer graphics, virtual synthetic agents, crowds of virtual agents and computer vision. She has published more than 40 articles in periodicals, including several of them of great impact, such as IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, ACM Presence, IEEE TVCG, The Visual Computer, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Video Technology, Computers & Graphics and etc. She is the second most cited researcher in the area of ​​Crowd Simulation, according to Google Scholar. It has h-index = 26 and occupies position 1417 in the list of the 6,000 most referenced researchers in Brazil (according to Google Scholar). She has been chair of the SBC Special Gaming Commission since August 2016, part of the CNPq CA-CC and a member of the FAPERGS area.