Born in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, in 1963. In 1969 she began his basic education in Los Angeles, California. Completed high school in 1981 in Porto Alegre with the full training of Translator and Interpreter Technician. She began her professional career as an English teacher at the Yázigi language institute in Triufo, RS. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism in 1995 at the University of Vale dos Rio dos Sinos and, always seeking the integration of his work with computational tools, worked with the development of computer-assisted Architectural and Urbanistic Projects until 2000, when joined as a traffic technician. and transportation, through a public tender, at EPTC (Public Transport and Circulation Company of Porto Alegre). Joined the SIMTRAF Project team (EPTC / LASTRAN-UFRGS agreement) to implement a traffic simulation model in Porto Alegre and headed the traffic research team. The joint work with the university was an incentive to resume studies seeking professional qualification in the area of Transportation Planning. In the Department of Transportation at the São Carlos School of Engineering at the University of São Paulo, she obtained her Master’s Degree in 2005 and Doctorate Degree in 2010, with a six-month Sandwich Doctorate internship at Techincal University of Vienna, Austria (2008). In the last semester of 2010 she was a lecturer in the Civil Engineering course at FEB / UNESP-Baurú teaching in the area of Water and Air Transport. In 2011 she collaborated with the Foundation for the Improvement of Research and Industrial Improvement in an agreement signed with the City Hall of Anápolis, GO, where she developed a GIS (Geographic Information System) database to implement a SGPU (Management System for Urban Pavement) integrated with other urban infrastructures. From November of the same year to September 2012, held a postdoctoral degree at the Federal University of São Carlos working with the Urban Environment Management Research Group. She was a collaborator of FIPAI until May 2013 in an agreement signed with the Municipal Traffic and Transport Company and Anápolis City Hall, GO for the development of the city’s Urban Mobility Plan. She is currently a lecturer at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Mobility Engineering Center (Joinville, SC) and a postdoctoral fellow at STT / EESC / USP developing research on “MODEL USE OF SOIL AND TRANSPORT FOR URBAN MOBILITY PLANNING IN BRAZILIAN CITIES. MIDSIZE”. Her academic and professional experience in the areas of Architectural and Urbanistic Project development, Transport Engineering, with emphasis on Transport System Planning and Organization, Urban and Regional Forecasting Technique and Urban Planning, always seeking the improvement in the application of computational tools. Acting on the following subjects: 2D and 3D modeling techniques for CAD project development, application of spatial and GIS statistics tools for spatial data analysis, application of system dynamics and integrated land use and transport models for urban mobility planning and traffic simulation and allocation for traffic planning.
Research Lines
- Trip generator pole analysis based on traffic simulation model
- Dynamic, spatial, and integrated land use and transport modeling
- Spatial analysis technique of urban mobility data
- Development of collection systems and automatic analysis of traffic data
- GIS application for SGPU integration with other urban infrastructures
- Urban environment planning and management
- Urban-environmental planning instruments applicable to “Green Infrastructures”
- Land use and transport model for urban mobility planning in medium-sized Brazilian cities
- Mobility plans of northeastern Santa Catarina cities
- Cooperation structure for inter-organizational freight transport networks
- Cooperation between Joinville and UFSC (Joinville Campus)
Research Projects
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