Nancy Lopes Garcia is a renowned statistician and researcher with an outstanding academic and administrative career. She earned her Bachelor's in Statistics from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1985), an MSc in Mathematics from the Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (1988), and a PhD in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1993). Since 1987, she has been a key member of UNICAMP’s Statistics Department, becoming a full professor in 2002.

Her research focuses on probability and spatial stochastic processes, including perfect simulation, long-memory chains, percolation, and spatial point processes. In addition to her scholarly work, Nancy has held influential administrative roles at UNICAMP and served on national scientific bodies such as CAPES, CNPq, and the Brazilian Society of Mathematics.