Master’s degree in biochemistry, and PhD in bioinformatics with an emphasis in genomics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

Mariana did her post-doctoral at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in Germany, and worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Birmingham, UK.

Mariana is Head of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Lab at the Brazilian National Cancer Institute (INCA). She shares her time between leading research at INCA and leading bioinformatics at Oneskin.

Together with the OneSkin team, Mariana developed the company’s proprietary skin-specific DNAm age predictor.

Mariana is co-inventor of four patents, and has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals.