Halina is a Ph.D. researcher at Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, on Data-Supported Design for Transport Nodes and Sustainable Urbanization. Her research is under one of the twelve PhD Projects granted by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft in 2021.

Halina's PhD is developed under the Department of Architecture, with the Building Knowledge research section, Complex Projects group. This research is promoted by the Department of Urbanism,  Urban Studies  and Urban Data Sciences sections.

Her Ph.D. (2021-2025), entitled "Integrating carbon data across design domains", investigates the transferability of data, tools, and skills across domains of design. This research explores “How can design methods integrate carbon data and related tools and skills across the domains of Architecture, Urban Design and Sata Sciences, towards the decarbonization of the built environment?”. Halina's research approach is based on empirical investigations with practitioners, exploring the tacit knowledge behind data-supported methods at the level of Architecture, Urban Design and Cross-domain design. By doing so, she reveals a geospatial dimension of low-carbon design, offering a practical framework for integrating carbon data in early-stage design processes. Additionally, Halina provides a taxonomy of challenges in the transferability of data, tools and skills across domains. She highlights recommendations towards advancing the integration of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Building information Modelling (BIM) for Life Cycle Assessment and indicating possible tracks for future research using artificial intelligence to scale up the proposed methods.

Halina graduated in Architecture and Urbanism (2014), at the Pontifical Catholic University of Goias in Brazil. She obtained her Masters degree in Architecture in UCLA, where she worked as Graduate Student Researcher for the Now Institute, a partnership between UCLA and Morphosis Architects (Aug 2015- Jun 2016). She worked with Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP, in Los Angeles, (Jun 2016 - Nov 2017) and MVRDV (Feb 2018 - Jun 2021), as an Architect and Urban Designer, and as a Project Leader.