Associate Professor at the Department of Heritage Sciences and Techniques and Coordinator of the "Education and Societal Challenges" Group at CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Centre for Culture, Space and Memory at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. She teaches curricular units in different cycles of studies (Archaeology, Information Science, History and Heritage, Museology), acting as Director of the Master's Degree (2003-13; 2022- ) and the PhD in Museology (2013-2018). She has taken part in various research projects, edited, published, organised conferences and supervised more than three dozen Master's dissertations and ten concluded PhD theses (two of which won the CITCEM / Afrontamento Best Thesis Award and another was published in the DGPC / Caleidescopio Collection) on topics related to her interests, such as museum narratives and discourses, professional identities in museums, creativity in museums and the places and practices of mediation and education, or the missions of museums in the contemporary world. Co-creator and editor (2012-2022) of the academic journal MIDAS - Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares (http://revistamidas.hypotheses.org/). Over the years, she has also worked as a consultant for various museum programmes.