Servo has been the President of the Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA) since February 2023 when she was appointed by the Minister of Planning Simone Tebet.

[2] Servo began working at IPEA in 1998 and has participated largely in studies of health policy, coauthoring reports by the Council for Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies (CMAP) which evaluated hospital bed and ventilator availability during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil.

Tebet said at her inauguration “Today we have a Ministry of Planning that is presenting the nautical chart to Brazil.

We are going to do the PPA [Pluriannual plan] alongside Ipea, Enap [National School of Public Administration], commanded by Minister Esther Dweck, and the IBGE”.

"[7] Among the studies that have been carried out under Servo's leadership, IPEA found that free transportation in cities did not increase turnout in the 2022 Brazilian general election and that COVID-19 accelerated Brazil's transition to population decline.