Bachelor in mining engineering, MSc. Administration, and MBA in Project Management. With over 15 years of experience, her career started in mineral and metallurgical process engineering and included effective participation in projects from FEL1 to FEL4, as well as in the construction, commissioning, start-up, and operational support of mineral and metallurgical processing plants. Thais stands out for her critical thinking and her strategic vision of the business, which led to his appointment as Process Leader at Hatch's Belo Horizonte office. She is responsible for the coordination of the discipline, which includes the continuous improvement of the discipline deliveries, such as design of process routes, development of process flow diagrams, mass and metallurgical balance, equipment sizing, trade-off studies and financial analysis, among others. With PMP® certification, she also performs the role of Sponsor and Project Manager, acting in the leadership and coordination of multidisciplinary engineering studies and projects, greenfield and brownfield, especially in the conceptual phase, with direct interaction with clients. Most recently, has been focusing on critical minerals projects, mainly lithium and rare earth, for projects in Brazil and globally. Last year, she published the paper Sodium Sulfate as it Relates to the Battery Revolution: Challenges and Opportunities.