Dynamic and Studious [WIE from Around the World]

Mariana Amorim Fraga was born in Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, Brazil, on 11 May 1980. She received her master´s degree in microelectronics and electrical engineering in 2005 at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2009, she earned her Ph.D. in aeronautics and mechanical engineering at the Technological Institute of Aeronautics (ITA) in Brazil with a thesis on “Development of SiC Piezoresistive Sensors Aiming Aerospace System Applications.” Currently, she is a researcher at the Plasma and Processes Laboratory of the ITA and at the Institute for Advanced Studies.