XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RICE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN & 9th International Rice and Wheat Blast Conference

Agricultural Engineer and Master in Agronomy from the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) in Brazil, with an exchange period at Northwest Missouri State University and Kansas State University (USA). She has experience in Plant Breeding, with emphasis on management and cultural practices in lowland areas, with a focus on irrigated rice. From 2012 to 2020, she was part of the Irrigated Rice Research Group at UFSM. Currently, she is a doctoral student in the Graduate Program in Agronomy at UFSM, with the thesis focused on the sustainable production of irrigated rice. Also, she is the coordinator of the Rice Money Maker Championship, organized by FieldCrops Team at UFSM and is a Visiting Researcher at the Latin American Fund for Irrigated Rice (FLAR).