Assistant Professor at the Law School of the University of Minho and Member of the State, Enterprise and Technology Research Group (E-Tec) of the Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov) of the Law School of the University of Minho, she has dedicated herself to the study of the scientific areas of Labour Law, Labour Procedural Law and Public Employment Law, with several publications on these subjects. She is a regular contributor to postgraduate and master's courses in labour law organised by the Institute of Business and Labour Law (Coimbra Law School), the Institute of Labour Law (Lisbon Classical University Law School), the Nova University Law School and the Catholic University Law School. She has been a guest speaker at various conferences, seminars and congresses, and a trainer at the Centre for Judicial Studies. She has been Director of the Department of Private Legal Sciences since 2018 and a member of the Scientific Council of the University of Minho Law School since 2014. She is also a member of the Board of the Legal Association of Braga (AJB), the Board of the Centre for Legal Studies of Minho (CEJUR), the General Assembly of the Consumer Arbitration Court of Braga (CIAB) and the Advisory Board of the Judicial Court of the District of Braga. She is on the editorial board of the magazine Questões Laborais and the magazine Cadernos de Direito Privado.