PhD in Linguistics, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences - NOVA University Lisbon. I currently work as a part-time Guest Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Coimbra and the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Aveiro. I ensure the teaching of several Portuguese Language curricular units for both national and mobility students. In addition to this activity, I supervise several master's theses. At the research level, I'm an integrated member of the Center for Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Aveiro, specifically the Group Between Languages ¿ Variation, Translation and Learning. PhD in Linguistics, from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), develops research framed within the branch of text analysis and related to the acquisition of Portuguese by foreign learners. Completed the Master's degree in Multimedia in Education from the University of Aveiro in 2009 and a degree in Portuguese, Latin, and Greek in 2006. Research interests: text and discourse analysis, Portuguese linguistics, Portuguese as a Foreign Language, sociolinguistics, political communication, pragmatics, rhetoric, social interaction, multimodal communication, and new communication tools.