Camila is a biologist, she graduated at UFSM (2009), with interest in ecological issues, such as understanding the patterns of diversity in the Amazon. She received her master’s degree (2011) at INPA working with the impact of fires in seasonally flooded forests, igapós. Her PhD (2018), at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden was about investigating Amazonian diversity with environmental DNA. She did postdoctoral studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, with ecological co-occurrence networks with environmental DNA data. She is currently a postdoctoral student at UFPR, working with environmental DNA analysis for environmental monitoring.