Maria Cristina Dias Tavares is a Brazilian electrical engineer specializing in long-distance electric power transmission and the characteristics of transmission lines.
She is a professor of electrical engineering at the State University of Campinas in Brazil.
[1][2] Tavares earned a degree in electrical engineering in 1984 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
She received a master's degree in 1991 at COPPE, the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute for Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering of UFRJ, and completed a doctorate (D.
[2] Tavares was named as an IEEE Fellow in 2024, "for contributions to single-phase and three-phase auto-reclosing switching of transmission lines".