Lucimar Dantas is a young researcher with interests in the area of education, specifically in the teaching and learning process and the role of the mother tongue (Portuguese language) in this process. She started her research career in 2019, after winning the position of Assistant Researcher in the FCT competition to encourage institutional scientific employment (CEEC-COFAC / ULHT-CeiED / Auxiliar / 2018). She holds a PhD in Education from the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies - ULHT - with the title of European Doctorate (2012). She completed part of his doctoral training at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she worked with researchers from EQUIAL - Equipo de Investigación para la Adquisición del Lenguage. Her PhD thesis deals with the acquisition of the Portuguese language spoken in Brazil. She holds a Master's degree in Educational Sciences (2010) from the Lusophone University of Humanities and Technologies. She has extensive experience with teaching in basic education, as a Portuguese language teacher, and in higher education, as a teacher of various disciplines in the area of Educational Sciences. She has experience of educational management in basic education and experience of working with large teams. At CeiED - Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development - she founded and coordinates the Research and Learning Community NELP – Núcleo de Estudos de Língua Portuguesa – (Center for Portuguese Language Studies); she is local coordinator (Portugal) of the ERASMUS + TASK21 EdTech and AI for for Essential Skills of the 21st Century project; she participated in the ERASMUS + IC - ENGLISH - Innovative Platform for Adult Language Education project; she is co-coordinator of the AVAL project - Pedagogical Evaluation, School Results and Reading Literacy; she is co-coordinator of the CeiED Workshop for Reflection and Academic Production (a regular workshop for PhD students). The projects in which she participates resulted, so far, in the publication of 01 article in an indexed international journal, 01 book chapter and 2 oral communications at international conferences. She teaches the Portuguese Language and Portuguese Language and Culture courses at ULHT. She supervises doctoral and master's thesis; participates in the organization and scientific committee of scientific events. She is a member of the editorial team of Revista Lusófona de Educação - RLE - and review of the Social Sciences and Hummanities Open (Elsevier).