Now in a job position where managerial, technical, project skills are applicable and relevant to everyday challenges at Enel Green Power.
He has been participating as team member in 100+ projects in Italy and abroad since 2011.
He was included in the list of highly qualified European Engineers in 2022, being awarded the prestigious title of EUR ING and the Freedom of the City of London in 2025.
His engineering experience/expertise covers the main following areas:
?? Dam safety (monitoring, inspections,...).
?? Hydropower plants control, surveillance and maintenance plans definition and management, in order to avoid failures and power plants' out of services (Forensic Engineering).
?? Project planning and budgeting.
?? Structural/seismic, hydraulic and geotechnical design, calculation and computational analysis.
?? Hydrological calculations/Estimation of hydropower plants production in compliance with repowering activities.
?? Design of hydraulic machinery/turbines.
?? R&D.
He has also competence in managing Stakeholders relationship, with problem solving, networking, negotiation and goal-setting skills.
Among other skills: technical ability based on the above cited experience, continuous updating and professionalism and passion in carrying out projects that fall within the areas of competence.
Is graduated in Civil Engineering by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and had undergraduate scholarship at Special Training Program (PET / ECV), CNPq doctoral scholarship and participated in the research and development project of the National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), coordinated by Tractebel Energia and GAP / UFSC.
Has experience in feasibility studies and hydroelectric power plants projects, totaling 20 years of professional experience, including 5 years teaching experience at the higher level and worked from 2011 to 2016 as a teacher of Normalization and Precast Concrete Structures disciplines, from Postgraduate Courses of the IDD Institute (Instituto IDD).
The main researches areas are concrete dam (numerical analysis and structural desing), precast concrete structures and design of concrete structures.
Currently is an adjunct professor at the Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), Campus Curitiba, since 2017 and co-author of the chapter Prefabricated Concrete published in the book "Concrete: Science and Technology" (IBRACON, 2011), between others.
She has worked in developing technical standards for precast concrete since 2003, highlighting the Coordination of the Study Commission of the Hollow Core Slabs and Panels of Precast Concrete of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT), during the elaboration of the ABNT technical standard "Precast Prestressed Hollow Core Slabs – Requirements and Procedures" (ABNT NBR14861) published in 2011.
Has worked as a secretary of the Study Commission of Design and Execution of Precast Concrete Structures, in the last two reviews of the technical standard published by this Commission (ABNT NBR9062). She was also member of the review technical standards Committees: Design of Concrete Structures (ABNT NBR6118: 2014) and Fire Design of Concrete Structures (NBR 15200: 2012). She is a member of the Instituto Brasileiro do Concreto (IBRACON), Comitê Brasileiro de Barragens (CBDB) and Associação Brasileira da Construção Industrializada de Concreto (ABCIC).
]]>As a Civil Engineer pHD, I am interested in technological innovation, specially from a business point of view.
My personal objective is to understand how to add value from the I+D to the enterprise and create products that can enter into competition in the international technological market.
Specialties: My field of knowledge is about developing great software for Computer Simulation in Engineering including Structural Analysis, Mesh generation, CFD, etc.