Gabriela Campagnol has a professional degree in architecture, with a master's and Ph.D. degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from the University of São Paulo. She joined the Texas A&M University Department of Architecture as a faculty in 2007. She is a faculty fellow of the Center for Heritage Conservation and the Center for Housing and Urban Development at Texas A&M University. She is a founding member of the Brazilian chapter of TICCIH. Her primary research focuses on the preservation and adaptive reuse of sugar industrial heritage. 

Campagnol’s publications include a book on sugar agroindustrial settlements, as well as articles and book chapters on sugar company towns, industrial heritage and the adaptive reuse of post-industrial sites and landscapes, on the precursor work of Lina Bo Bardi, and on the impact of technology on heritage preservation and architectural education.