A neuroscientist with a PhD and Master's degree in Physiology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and training in Psychology from the National University of San Marcos (Peru). She has developed her academic and scientific career in the field of developmental psychobiology and mother-infant attachment for over 12 years. Her research focuses on understanding how the mother-infant relationship shapes the development of neural circuits and behavior during critical periods of plasticity. In particular, she has concentrated her work on identifying developmental stages of greater vulnerability and opportunity, as well as analyzing how these are modulated by different types of experiences and biological conditions, including early stress and other forms of adversity. She addresses these questions from a multiscalar perspective, integrating different levels of analysis, from behavior to gene expression, in order to understand the processes that shape early development. To this end, she has developed a research strategy that integrates animal models, behavioral paradigms, electrophysiological recordings, neuronal morphology techniques, molecular and biochemical analyses, and computational neuroscience tools. Along these lines, she has led projects funded by PROCIENCIA and university grants, and is the author of scientific publications, including a theory on the neural mechanisms of infant attachment learning, featured on two covers of the journal Learning & Memory in 2020. She has also taught in undergraduate and graduate programs and has contributed to the training of students in the initial stages of research. Currently, she leads the research line on early development and the mother-infant relationship at the Morphodynamic Neuroscience and Behavior eLaboratory of the UNESCO UniTwin Complex Systems Digital Campus (CS-DC), Peru.