Dr Rodrigues is an associate lecturer at the Universidade Federal Fluminense. Her research interests are developing and validation of chromatography methods and phytoplankton pigments as tracers to limnology and oceanography studies, among others. She belongs, as a researcher, to one recently created “National Institute of Marine Sciences”, supported by the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology. Dr Rodrigues was one of the instructors at the Regional CofE in Brazil (2009).