Social Scientist (1983) holds a master degree (1998) and a PhD (2007) in Energy Planning and the Environment by the Graduate Programs of Engineering (COPPE) of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She is currently a senior researcher at the Center for Integrated Studies on  Climate Change and the Environment - centro Clima / COPPE / UFRJ. She has been working mainly on the following topics: sustainable development, climate change, energy planning and environmental planning. She is one of the authors of the Economics of Adaptation, chapter 17 of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).