PhD researcher contracted by the Center of Studies in Archeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences at the University of Coimbra. For two decades she has been devoted to the study of prehistoric art in the western Iberia. Graduated in History and Archaeology, at the Faculty of Letters of University of Porto, she continued her academic studies at the University of Reading (United Kingdom), where she obtained a Master's Degree in Archeology in 1997 and a Doctorate in 2004. She was the first Portuguese Prehistorian with a PhD degree in rock art. She collaborated with the National Center of Rock Art (CNART) in the study of emblematic sites such as Gião, the Côa Valley and the rock carvings on the Portuguese banks of the Guadiana. She was responsible for the study of the rock art at El Pedroso Sanctuary (Zamora, Spain) and collaborated in survey and excavation works at the Kilmartin rock art complex (Scotland, UK). She also worked in commercial archaeology and was project director or scientific advisor of 15 research projects involving rock art surveys and recordings. Since 1997 she has directed research and safeguarding projects from north to south of the country, on the most diverse post-glacial rock art traditions present in Iberia: from the Atlantic Art of Vouga to Minho, to the fine engravings of Trás-os-Montes and Alentejo, Schematic Art rock paintings, megalithic art, stelae and menhir statues. Recent research include the study of art and archaeological contexts of Schematic Art sites in the Côa valley (2014-16), the discovery of the largest Atlantic Art assemblage in Portugal at Monte Faro (Valença) (2013-16), and the excavation, survey and recordings at the first Schematic Art painted site discovered in south-eastern Galicia (2018): Penedo Gordo / Penedo da Moura. She's the author of numerous articles and book chapters published in Portugal, the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland, an co-editor/author of books on Prehistoric Art. Her interests range from Social Archaeology, to Ethnography and the Anthropology of Art. She taught the discipline «Prehistoric and Iron Age Art» at the University of Minho and a module on Ice Age Art in Lisbon University. Currently she teaches the discipline of 'Introduction to Archaeology' in the University of Coimbra (Faculty of Letters) and, coordinates the module 3e | Landscape Archaeology: Architecture and Territory of the Erasmus + Joint Master "Architecture | Landscape | Archaeology" (University of Coimbra). She is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the FCT funded research project LandCRAFT that aims to write a new chapter on the art history of the Côa valley UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is an international, multi-proxy, interdisciplinary research with gathers leading experts from Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish Universities. It aims to study the transition from the rock art of the last hunter-gatherers to that own the first farming communities in the region. The main tasks include: a) rock art documentation using (and developing) new digital techniques of rock art recording (the corpus); excavation of Schematic rock art sites (the socio-cultural contexts); paleoenvironmental studies aiming to assess the changing character of the landscape from the Mesolithic to the Late Copper Age/ Early Bronze Age; conservation studies and site management plans of painted rock art sites; physical and chemical analysis of pigments, crusts and natural backdrop; ethnographic and ethno-historical studies, citizen science and dissemination activities.