Has a Degree in Conservation and Restoration, an MSc in Museology and Heritage awarded by the New University of Lisbon, and a PhD in Anthropology (Specialization in Anthropology of Tourism, Politics, and Images of Culture and Museology), awarded by the same university. She has an Advanced Training course in Tourism from the Department of Economics, Management, Industrial Engineering, and Tourism at the University of Aveiro. Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (IPT), at the Departmental Unit of Social Sciences (since 1998). Professor with Hospitality Education Awards. Education and Training in Tourism in Portugal. Best Higher Education Teaching Career (2021 edition). Director of IPT's higher education courses in Tourism at various levels: bachelor's degree in Tourism and Cultural Management (2015 to 2022), master's course in Development of Cultural Tourism Products (2015 to 2019), Higher Professional Technician course in Activity Production for Cultural Tourism (Tomar, Sertã and Nisa from 2015 to 2021), Postgraduate course in Nature Tourism in the Digital Era, since 2018. Director of the Degree course in Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management, of the Higher Professional Technical Course in Tourism Management (2021 ¿ current), and the Specialization course in Tourism and Heritage (2022 ¿ current). In addition to teaching several curricular units, she supervises several TeSP internships, and undergraduate and master's theses, having been a member of the jury, as president and examiner. Advisory Member of the Scientific Council of the Tomar Higher School of Management (2015-current). Represents the IPT in the Medio Tejo Museum Network (RMMT), in the Network of Higher Education Institutions for the Safeguard of the Mediterranean Diet (RIESDM), in the Working Group on Seasonality in Tourism (GTST), in the Wellbeing Tourism Network do Ribatejo Norte, in the Medio Regional Wine Commission and the Tejo Wine Route Association, in PROVERE (CENTRO2030-ITI_PROVERE-2023), in the Network of Public Institutions of Polytechnic Higher Education (RIPTUR), with Tourism courses where he is President of the Executive Committee (elected unanimously, in June 2023, 2-year term). Integrated member of the I&D Unit of the Center for Technology, Restoration and Enhancement of the Arts (TECHN&ART, IPT) where he was part of the Advisory Board (2018-2023), affiliated member of the Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies (GOVCOPP, UA) research unit of the University of Aveiro and the Center for Research, Development and Innovation in Tourism (CiTUR, Leiria), and with the Heritage Tourism Research Group, of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development of Brazil (CNPq) and UFPel, Brazil. Member of editorial and scientific boards of academic journals and member with active participation in conferences and scientific and technical events (national and international). Author of several national and international peer-reviewed papers within research areas that include tourism, anthropology, cultural heritage management, museology, and socio-economic sciences.