[3] In addition, Morais Smith is an editor for the European Journal of Physics B, which focuses on condensed matter and complex systems.
[4] Morais Smith obtained a physics BSc from University of Campinas in 1985, continuing to complete a MSc with highest honors in 1989 entitled The Effect of the Initial Preparation to Describe the Dynamics of a Quantum Brownian Particle, under her adviser Amir Caldeira.
She continued with Caldeira to complete a PhD in 1994, also at University of Campinas entitled Quantum and Classical Creep of Vortices Intrinsically Pinned in High-Temperature Superconductors.
[2] From 1989 to 1994, during her PhD, Morais Smith accepted a permanent lecturer position in the Department of Physics at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Bauru, Brazil.
[2] During this time, she was also a visiting scientist in the Condensed Matter group at the International Center for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, as well as a guest PhD student at ETH Zurich.
[5] After finishing a post-doc in Hamburg, Morais Smith began working at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where the Swiss National Science Foundation awarded her the Professor Boursier Fellowship.
[2] In 2016, the Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) awarded its Dresselhaus Prize to Morais Smith for "her outstanding contribution to the understanding of topological phases in two-dimensional atomic and electronic systems".