Ana Carolina is a Ph.D. student at the Laboratory of Phytoplankton Ecology and Physiology. She is a Biologist who graduated from the Rio de Janeiro State University (2017). MSc in Plant Biology at Rio de Janeiro State University (2020). She has solid experience in laboratory routines and is familiar with the physical, chemical, and biological analysis of water samples. Experience in isolation techniques, cultivation, counting, and identifying zooplankton from inland waters and nutrient analysis from flow injection analysis. Experience in fieldwork through the monitoring of aquatic ecosystems. More recently, she has been involved in studies aiming at mitigating cyanobacterial blooms through geo-engineering techniques and the effects of these techniques on benthic communities.