Born in 1974, has completed the Veterinary Medicine degree in 1999. Holder of a MSc degree in Biomedical Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. In July 2011 she got her PhD in Veterinary Sciences at the University of Évora. Her thesis ¿The Bone/Implant Interface: New Approaches to Old Problems¿ explored through in vitro and in vivo tests a new nanocomposite for tribological surfaces in orthopaedic implants and bone mechanical stimulation with piezoeletrical materials. The research focus has been on bone biology and biomedical devices for orthopedic applications. She has a particular interest in the influence of physical stimuli on cell behavior and on how the electromechanical environment may be used with advantage to direct cell response and address pathological conditions. She has extensive experience in large animal models for testing orthopaedic devices and biomaterials and in techniques such as hard tissue processing for histological studies of both undecalcified and decalcified samples, histomorphometric studies, histochemistry, and immunohistochemistry, along with microtomography. She has proceeded to apply these methodologies for the characterization of the mineralization processes of canine benign and malignant mammary tumors, a spontaneous model of breast cancer. In face of the results, an interest in Raman spectroscopy application to spontaneous models of disease has developed, in a One Health and comparative oncology approach. From 2002 she taught at the University of Évora, where she was Assistant Professor from 2011 to September 2020. She was Clinical Director and later Director of the University Teaching Hospital from 2015 to 2017. She is since October 2020, Assistant Professor in Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, coordinator of the Veterinary Nursing course since 2022 and Clinical Diretor of the CBEA, the teaching veterinary clinic, where she ensures the clinical activity related to the protocols with the Municipality and local animal shelter (preventive, medical and surgical medicine). She is the coordinator of a new post-graduation in Animal-assisted Interventions and she is member of CISAS - Center for Research and Development in Agrifood Systems and Sustainability. She has supervised PhD, Master, and Bachelor students, and currently is supervising a PHD student from the University of Évora. She has a keen interest in active learning strategies, clinical reasoning and transversal competencies development.