aola A. Mello obtained her master’s degree in Analytical Chemistry (2007) and PhD in Chemistry (2011). She has experience in analytical chemistry with the focus on atomic spectrometry - AAS, ICP OES, ICP-MS, development of sample preparation methods and speciation analysis (LC and GC-coupled techniques). She has supervised 04 PhD, 11 masters, and 50 undergraduate students. She published more than 130 peer reviewed international papers and reviews.

She is a member of the Chemistry Committee of the Rio Grande do Sul State Foundation for Research (FAPERGS) since 2017 and was in the board of the Analytical Chemistry Division of the Brazilian Chemical Society (SBQ), as the Director (2020-2026). Nowadays, she is the Coordinator of Post-Graduation Program in Chemistry, at UFSM. he research by Dr. Mello has been focused on atomic spectrometry with method development for metals and non-metals determination in several matrices (biological and food samples, crude oil and fractions/derivatives, biomass and biofuels, polymers, pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and others), from sample preparation, including bioacessibility protocols, to detection methods.