Mariana Tavares Pimenta possesses a Bachelor’s degree in Control and Automation Engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and a Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was a fellow in Biodesign at the Albert Einstein Israelite Hospital under the methodology of Stanford University. She is currently pursuing a PhD in BioRobotics at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, performing her work at the Soft BioRobotics Perception Laboratory at the Italian Institute of Technology, in Genova, Italy, under Dr. Lucia Beccai. Her research focuses on tactile perception for soft adaptive manipulators, using an event camera-based tactile sensor with the goal of developing a bioinspired tactile perception framework.