Laís Martins Marques Chaves holds a degree in chemical engineering from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Brazil. She has been a planning and maintenance engineer for CEMIG Geração E Transmissão S.A. since 2014, acting in the electrical sector equipment predictive monitoring. In 2015, Chaves was the main author of the paper "CEMIG’s Experience – The Association of Scanning Electron Microscopy and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectrometry Applied to Fault Analysis on Electric System Equipment," presented at XXIII SNPTEE, a CIGRE Brazil technical event.