nathalia peixoto

I was born 100 m from the Copacabana beach. We lived in Rio until I was ten, and then we moved to small town, Resende, between Rio and Sao Paulo. At 13 I realized there wasn't much more for me to learn there. So at 14 I moved out, and went to a technical school in Sao Paulo. My parents weren't happy with that decision. Usually, attending a technical school means good news and bad news: (1) you will have a job as soon as you graduate, when you are 18 and (2) you will never 'grow' in life. In your professional life, that is.

I learned how to solder, solve problems, build robots, use a machine shop. Got a job, designing circuits to control centrifuges in Sao Paulo. Pretty soon I realized that the engineers who were my bosses, fresh out of school, were not sure of what they were doing. I hated being told to do the wrong things.
So I needed an engineering degree. Went back to the drawing board, studied for the Brazilian SATs (vestibular), attended a great university (Unicamp), and got a bachelors in Electrical Engineering, a Masters in Bioengineering.