Cristiane de Morais Smith Lehner is a Brazilian theoretical physicist and researcher at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Utrecht studying condensed matter physics, cold atoms and strongly-correlated systems.Morais Smith has authored or co-authored over 100 academic papers, including articles in Nature Communications, Physical Review, and Physical Review B, where several of her papers have been recognized as "Editors Choice" and "Scientific Highlights".
As of April 2019, her work has received over 2600 citations.In addition, Morais Smith is an editor for the European Journal of Physics B, which focuses on condensed matter and complex systems.