PhD in Behavioral Biology from ISPA – Instituto Universitário, has been an adjunct assistant professor since 2024 in the Master's in Psychology and Environmental Sustainability and a researcher at the Católica Research Centre for Psychological, Family and Social Wellbeing – CRC-W. Between 2019 and 2023, she was a visiting researcher at the School of Psychology and Neurosciences at the University of St Andrews. She collaborates as a reviewer with various scientific journals such as Animal Cognition, Scientific Reports, and the International Journal of Primatology. She is a member of the permanent organizing committee of the Protolang Conference Series. Her main research areas are comparative psychology and behavior, with a special interest in the role of gestures in the evolution and acquisition of language. She is the author of several publications on communication in humans and other primates.