Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences.
She has a degree in Social Work from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra and a Master's degree in Social Work from the Portuguese Catholic University. She has a PhD in Social Work from the inter-university doctorate program of the University of Coimbra and the Portuguese Catholic University.
She is the coordinator of the Master's Degree in Applied Social Gerontology and a lecturer on the Social Work degree. She has been the Technical Coordinator of the Social Center of Irmandade de S. Torcato, Guimarães (IPSS with social responses for the elderly) since 2013.
She is a researcher at the Center for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH) at UCP (Braga).
Her areas of interest are: Poverty, vulnerability and social exclusion studies; Gerontological Social Work; Innovative teaching methodologies; Sustainable Development, among others.