Rubia first earned her degree in Pharmacy from the Pontific Catholic University of Campinas, Brazil in 2013 before pursuing a Masters in Science from the University of São Paulo in 2016. Following her Masters, she went on to earn her PhD in Medical Physiopathology from the University of Campinas in 2020 while working in the laboratory of Sara T. Olalla Saad. Currently, Rubia is working as a Postdoctoral Associate in the Krause lab and will be investigating hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell fate specification.