Carolina is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, UK. She is a member of the Natural Language Processing group and part of the GATE team. Previously, she worked as an Academic Fellow at the University of Sheffield from September 2019 to November 2021 and as a Research Associate for the WeVerify project (from March 2019 to August 2019) and the SIMPATICO project (from July 2016 to February 2019).

In 2017, Carolina was awarded a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield with the thesis titled “Document-level Machine Translation Quality Estimation.” Her PhD was funded by the EXPERT project, a Marie Curie ITN network, and she was supervised by Professor Lucia Specia. Carolina also holds a master’s degree from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, awarded in 2013, where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Sandra Aluísio. During her master’s studies, she was a member of the Interinstitutional Center for Computational Linguistics (NILC), and she is currently an external collaborator for NILC.