Juliana has worked in SSR primer development, phylogeny, genetic diversity, and gene expression analysis using RT-PCR, and RNA-seq. She has published 10 papers, 5 as first author. She integrated 7 project teams. She has acted as a reviewer in the Molecular Biology Reports journal and the South African Journal of Botany. Juliana has experience in Bioinformatics, Biotechnology, Genetics, Evolution, and Biodiversity. Currently, she has a post-doc position at UTAD and leads a BioISI project.