Lucimar Dantas is a researcher with interests in the area of education, specifically in the teaching and learning process and the role of language in this process. She holds a PhD in Education from the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technologies - ULHT - with the title of European Doctorate (2012). She completed part of his doctoral training at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she worked with researchers from EQUIAL - Equipo de Investigación para la Adquisición del Lenguage. Her PhD thesis presents the acquisition of the Portuguese language spoken in Brazil in a longitudinal 5 years case study. She holds a Master's degree in Educational Sciences (2010) from the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies. She started working as a researcher in 2019, after winning the position of Assistant Researcher in an international competition to institutional scientific employment (CEEC-COFAC / ULHT-CeiED / Auxiliar / 2018). At CeiED - Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development - she founded and coordinates the Research and Learning Community NELP - Núcleo de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa - [Center for Portuguese Language Studies]. Her interest in language and learning has been a constant since her Master and Doctoral studies. Recently she has adopted interdisciplinary research approaches between Education, Psycholinguistics and Cognitive Neuroscience to study language and learning process at school contexts. In this path, she has coordinated some funded research projects and she has co-created a Master Program in Cognitive Science and Education, at Lusófona University, in which she teaches Brain, Mind and Education class. She has participated in many international funded research projects. She has international mobility experience, having visited some countries in Europe as a researcher. With the objective of moving forward her research interests and interdisciplinary approaches, she has recently visited the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics under an Erasmus+ mobility grant. She has actively disseminated the results of her and her team research in international conferences, papers and book chapters. She is the executive director of Citizenship Science Doctoral College - CeiED, Lusófona University and editor of Revista Lusófona de Educação. She has extensive experience with teaching in basic education, as a Portuguese language teacher, and in higher education, as a teacher of various disciplines in the area of Educational Sciences. She has experience of educational management in basic education and experience of working with large teams.