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+title: Welcome to Gabriella Sampaio, new PhD student with the group
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+We are really happy to welcome Gabriela Sampaio, who has joined the group as a PhD student. Gabriela completed her BSc at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, Brazil)
+and as an undergraduate, she spent a year at the University of Kent, working on [Wrangler](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/projects/wrangler/Wrangler/Home.html), 
+a refactoring tool for Erlang, under the supervision of [Prof Simon Thompson](https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/sjt/). After a stint as a  web developer in Brazil,
+she went back to UFPE in 2017 to do a MSc under the supervision of [Prof Paulo Borba](http://ufpe.academia.edu/PauloBorba), working on ways to support developers in partially 
+safe changes to software product lines with the use of a partial refinement theory; the results were published at [SPLC'16](https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2934482). 
+Gabriela's PhD thesis will focus on the reasoning and verification of large Javascript Programs.
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