PhD in Social Work from ISCTE-IUL, since 2018/2019 she has been an Invited Lecturer in the Bachelor and Master degrees of Social Work at the Faculty of Human Sciences (UCP - Lisbon). Member of the Cross-national Social Work and social innovation platform project, integrated in the CRC-W: Católica Research Center for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing. Founding member of the Nucleus of Doctoral Students in Latin American Social Work (NUDLA). Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-IUL) between 2014 and 2019.
Main areas of research: Social Work, Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation, with publications about such areas/themes.
With professional experience in the fields of special education, employment and social entrepreneurship.