She has a PhD in Communication Sciences from the Portuguese Catholic University. She is currently an Associate Professor at the FCH-UCP and the FCH's international relations coordinator, having coordinated the FCH's Postgraduate and Advanced Training School for 8 years. She is a principal researcher at the Centre for Communication and Culture Studies (CECC) at FCH-UCP, where she coordinates the DIGLIT - Digital Literacy and Cultural Change research group.
Her research and teaching areas are digital media, mobile communications, gender and technology, digital transformation and cyberculture. Since 2017 she has been developing a research project on connection and disconnection throughout the stages of life, with a special focus on the relationship between death and the digital, digital rights, the impact of the digital on tourism, and the relationship with space and time.
Her most recent publications include: the article ‘Gendering old age: The role of mobile phones in the experience of aging for women’, IGI (2018); the book chapter: ‘Gendering the mobile phone: A life course approach’, in Digital Technologies and Generational Identity: ICT Usage Across the Life Course, Routledge (2017); and the book (2016) ‘Women Speak: Gendering the Mobile Phone’, UCP.