Art Historian, Associate Prof. with an Aggregation in Art History from the Univ. of Porto. B.A. (Hons) in Art History (Magna cum Lauda, Univ. of Coimbra, 1984) and Ph.D. in Art History (Dissertation title: "La puerta falsa de América: Portuguese artistic influence in the Rio de la Plata region during the colonial period". Magna cum Lauda, Univ. of Coimbra, 2005). Has been teaching Art History at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Univ. of Porto since 1985. Director of the Dept. of CAD. Has taught at different levels, from undergraduate to postgraduate (Masters and Ph.D.). She is presently responsible for 6 Units at her Faculty, ranging from Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque Art to Studies in Modern and Contemporary Art, and a Seminar in Art Studies and Visual Culture, as well as tutorial sessions with Ph.D. students. She has also lectured and been responsible for full courses/Units at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra, at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto, and at Doctorate Programs from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) on South American Colonial Art, and "Heritages of Portuguese Influency", III-UC, University of Coimbra). She lectured briefly at the Fine Arts Academy of Karlsruhe, Germany (Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe), at the École Supérieure d'Art d'Aix-en-Provence, France (ESAAix), at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona, Italy, at the University of Iceland, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Reykjavík, Iceland, at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Ljublijana, Slovenia, at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, at the Centre for Privacy Studies, Faculty of Theology, Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Hungarian Univ. of Fine Arts (MKE), Budapest, Hungary, and at the Accademie di Belle Arti di Urbino and di Napoli, Italy. She is a researcher at CEAACP (GEMA), and a member of the Portuguese Association of Art Historians, of ICOMOS, and of ICOM. She is the author of many published articles, diverse chapters and one book, on themes from Medieval, Renaissance and South American Art. She has carried out extensive research on the circulation of artistic forms in the South Atlantic region during the colonial period. She participated in more than 60 scientific meetings in Portugal, Spain, France, Ecuador, Brazil, Chile, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy, and held lectures, conferences, free courses and summer courses in diverse institutions in Portugal (Centro Nacional de Cultura, Univ. Portucalense, Museu de Aveiro, Univ. de Coimbra), Brazil (Real Gabinete Português de Leitura do Rio de Janeiro, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, Recife) and Canada (Univ. de Montréal). As a fellow from many grants (from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, the Portuguese government, the Luso-American Foundation and the Paul Getty Foundation - Getty Grant Program, among others), she travelled extensively through the USA, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Ecuador for her research. She was a Visiting Scholar at Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia, USA), and at the University of Texas at Austin (USA). She organized the Fourth International Meeting of Young European Art Historians "Les Ateliers des Interprètes", that took place at the University of Coimbra, in September 1991, and a Master Class with Martha Rosler at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto in 2014. She is frequently appointed as referee and member of scientific committees. She was officially responsible for the scientific revision of the new textbooks used to teach History of Culture and Arts in Portuguese high schools (2 vols., Porto Editora, 2013-2014). She is very proficient in French (Diplôme Supérieur d'Études Françaises Modernes, Alliance Française), English (Certificate of Proficiency in English, Univ. of Cambridge), and Spanish. She also studied Italian (Univ. of Coimbra), German (Goethe Institut) and Dutch (Univ. of Coimbra).