Geographer and Urban and Regional Planner, Assistant Professor at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa. Holds a PhD in Urban Planning from the Technical University of Lisbon, with a doctoral dissertation entitled "City and Geographic Information Technologies in African Context. Land Use Change Modeling in Maputo". Graduated in Geography and Regional Planning from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Holder of a scholarship from the Institute of Tropical Research, for the development of Cabo Verde Atlas, and of a scholarship, from FCT (Portuguese national funding agency, for science, research and technology) in the Military Geographical Institute, for the working up of the international project Vector Smart Map. Post-graduated in Land Information Surveying, from Erasmus Program (Ghent University and Roskilde University), and in GIS from Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon). She is the author of the book “Maputo. Cinco décadas de mudança territorial. O uso do solo observado por tecnologias de informação geográfica”, published in 2008 by Instituto Português para o Desenvolvimento (IPAD). Currently she is the coordinator of the project "LUCO - Collaborative Urban Laboratory for Land Use Monitoring, Planning and Sustainable Development", funded by Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She also takes on the role of coordinator for the Municipal Spatial Plan of Lautém in East Timor. Her main scientific areas of research encompass Applied Geography, GIS, Spatial Analysis, Urban Modeling, Urban Planning, and Urban African Studies.