De Figueiredo Celina Miraglia Herrera

De Figueiredo earned a BSc (1982) and an MSc (1984) in mathematics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, an MSc (1987) in mathematics from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, and a DSc (1991) in computer science from COPPE, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She joined UFRJ in 1989 as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Institute of Mathematics, and is currently a full professor in the Systems Engineering and Computer Science Program at COPPE, with which she has been affiliated since 1991. In 1995, she spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo. She has been a CNPq Research Fellow in computer science since 1992 holding the highest fellowship level (1A) since 2012. She has also been a Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro ’Scientist of Our State’ Fellow since 2005. Her honors include the Giulio Massarani COPPE Award for Academic Merit (2006) and the COPPE Fifty Years Award (2013). She is also a full member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences since 2023.