PhD in Migration Studies, specialising in Social Psychology, from the University of Lisbon in 2019. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the Catholic University of Portugal. Between 2017 and 2019, she was a visiting researcher at Yale University and University College London. She is a researcher at the Centre for Human Development and coordinates the projects LUSO – Antecedents and Consequences of Luso-Tropicalism for the Legitimation of Contemporary Social and Racial Inequality (FCT, ref. 2022.05941.PTDC) and WEMIX – “We Even Mixed!”: Colonial Ideologies, Racism Denial and Social Exclusion in Contemporary Portugal (Observatório Fundação “la Caixa”, ref. FP24-2B014). She has also developed teaching, supervision, and scientific coordination activities across different academic and research settings.
Her research focuses on two main strands within intergroup relations: (1) the Social Psychology of Colonialism, examining the psychological repercussions of colonial representations in contemporary social issues; and (2) the Social Psychology of Intergroup Inequalities, investigating cognitive, motivational, and group-based factors involved in bias in decision-making processes. She has authored several publications on colonial ideologies, racism, social inequalities, and intergroup relations.