She graduated from UFSCar, where she did her post-doctorate in 2019, her master's degree in Ecology and Natural Resources from PPGERN-UFSCar in 2017, and her doctorate in Geology from PPG-GI UFRJ in 2015.

[1] Since 2020, she has been the coordinator of DINOlab - Diversity, Ichnology and Osteohistology Laboratory, linked to the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), where she has been teaching since 2019.

[12] Ghilardi and her husband, fellow palaeontologist Tito Aureliano, are responsible for the YouTube channel Colecionadores de Ossos.

[15] Ghilardi was responsible for the "#UbirajaraBelongstoBR" campaign to retrieve the 'Ubirajara jubatus" fossil, which had been illegally removed from Brazil to Germany.

In July 2022, twenty-seven years after the removal, German authorities decided that the fossil should be returned to Brazil.