Born in Porto, where she lives, she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro (UA), an integrated researcher at the Instituto of Etnomusicologia - Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md) and a collaborator at the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia Estética e Musical (CESEM) at the FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where she has also taught. Improvisation and understanding in learning, to which she dedicated her doctoral thesis, are among her favourite subjects as a teacher and musician, along with collaborative education, creativity and participatory art in an educational context. She teaches Music Didactics on the Masters programmes in Music Teaching and Primary Education at the Department of Communication and Art and the Department of Education and Psychology (UA). She regularly gives seminars at various schools and universities in Portugal and abroad, and has directed and presented scenic music performances for children, young people and music teachers, such as "Um sonho americano" (2011) and "Em canto se conta o Natal (2013), at the invitation of the Casa da Música Educational Service (Porto). As a pianist, singer, composer and lyricist in the jazz and fusion genres, she has published four original albums/CDs, Mulher Avestruz (2003), Colapsopira (2009), Paluí (2013) and Massaiá (2023); the latter as the first volume of a double album to be completed in 2024/25 and her most recent musical, artistic, literary and videographic creation and publication project. Paluí's work constitute the musical genesis of transdisciplinary research and artistic creation projects that she has developed in Portuguese schools and communities and which she has presented at numerous international conferences, also as a keenote speaker. Highlights include: "Se queres saber o que é Paluí põe o teu dedo aqui!!! Viagem sonoras que a Língua Portuguesa Conta", which involved around 600 children and their teachers from the Santa Maria da Feira Primary schools and resulted in the co-creation and publication of a book (2017); "Paluí, está aqui? Histórias sonoras para cantos interiores", which, having been guided by inclusive/social objectives, namely combating the stigma of mental illness, was consummated in a musical and dramatic performance, germinated from a collective construction between users of the Magalhães Lemos Hospital (Porto), students and teachers from the University of Aveiro, the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, the Aveiro Centre for Childhood, Arts and Quality and artists from Casa da Música; published in Documentary and Film-Concert (2020), the creation was presented at the Ao Alcance de Todos festival at Casa da Música (2019). Her musical and artistic activity includes collaboration with musicians such as Brendan Hemsworth, Elizabeth Davis, António Aguiar, Arnaldo Fonseca, Pedro Almeida, Carlos Mendes, Andrés Tarabbia, Mário Santos, Filipe Lopes, Paulo Neto, among others, in recordings and concerts; participation in radio programmes such as Cinco Minutos de Jazz, Paixões Cruzadas and soap opera soundtracks; as a guest artist at Tedx-Aveiro (2013) and as a singer in concerts with the Filarmonia das Beiras orchestra; the release of several video clips, documentaries and concert films, in collaboration with Pedro Carvalho de Almeida, Carlos Silva and the Cine Clube de Avanca - presented at numerous film festivals across five continents, some of which have also been selected, such as Navegar, nominated in 2014 for the International Children's Film Festival in Lucknow (India) and awarded, among others, at the Avanca Film Festival. She has studied with various music researchers and pedagogues, such as E. Gordon, C. Azzara, B. Bolton and J. Paynter, among others. She completed a PhD in Music Teaching at the University of Aveiro (2006), a Master's Degree in Musical Sciences at the University of Coimbra (1992), a Degree in Philosophy at the University of Porto (1989) and a Higher Piano Course in 1987 at the Porto Music Conservatory.