D. in Social Work from ISCTE-IUL, she has been a Guest Assistant in the Undergraduate and Master's Degree in Social Work at the Faculty of Human Sciences (UCP - Lisbon) since 2018/2019. Member of the project Cross-national Social Work and social innovation platform, integrated in CRC-W: Católica Research Centre for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing. She is a founding member of the Núcleo de Doutorandos em Serviço Social Latino-América (NUDLA). Researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) between 2014 and 2019.
Her main research areas are Social Service, Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation, with publications around such areas/themes.
With professional experience in the fields of special education, employment and social entrepreneurship.