She received her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from PUC Minas University, in Brazil, in 2019. Iarima started at HZ by participating in the Living Lab Biobased Brazil program, in which she assisted in the study of an Ion Exchange lab setup. This was a collaborative project between the HZ and Evides Industriewater.
Iarima joined the research group in 2020 and worked on the NEREUS project (New Energy and Resources for Urban Sanitation) where she studied resource recovery and the modeling and optimization of related processes. In addition to this research, Iarima is involved in supervising students on current assignments.