Ph.D. in Sociology (University of Geneva, 1994) and Habilitation for Full Professorship (University of Lisbon, 2010). She served as Dean of the Institute of Social Sciences (University of Lisbon) between 2018 and 2023 and is currently a Research Professor at ICS. She has taught at graduate and post-graduate levels since 1980, at ISCTE-IUL and at the Institute of Social Sciences and supervised twenty four completed PhD theses. Her main areas of expertise are sociology of families and gender, comparative social policy analysis and sociology of migration. Her research and publications focus on changes in families and gender relations in Portugal and in Europe, work-family balance, fathering and men in families, personal relationships and social networks over the life course, migration and transnational living, developments in family policies in Europe and the impact of the crisis on children and family life. She is a founding member of the Portuguese Sociological Association (1985) and the European Sociological Association (1992). Between 2003 and 2007, she coordinated the Research Network on Sociology of Families and Intimate Lives of the European Sociological Association. She was coordinator of research projects and networks at national and international level, namely in the context of the European Commission¿s Framework Programmes and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Between 2006 and 2016 she coordinated the Research Group Life Course, Inequality and Solidarity: practices and policies. She participated in several evaluation panels at national and international level, at the European Commission (6th FP), at the Economic and Social Research Council (UK), at the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, at the Swiss National Science Foundation and the European Research Council. She coordinated the panel of Social Sciences and Humanities at the ERC in 2015. She has been working as an international expert on family policies in several European Institutions and Networks since 1994. In 2016, she coordinated the High-Level Group on the Evaluation of Science and Technology (MCTES). She was a Member of the European Observatory on National Family Policies and a Member of the Committee of Experts on Social Policy for Families and Children of the Council of Europe. She is a member of the International Network on Leave Policies and Research since 2004. In 2018, she was a Visiting Professor at Geneva University (Alba Viotto Professorship). She is the founder and was the coordinator, until 2018, of the Observatory on Families and Family Policies (OFAP).