Graduated in Communication Design (ESAD, 2008) Postgraduate in Economics and Public Policy (ISCTE-IUL, 2021) focused on housing policies as a preferred subject of study in the different Curricular Units. She is currently attending the first year of the PhD in Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto and the Units of the Advanced Studies Course in Territory - Territory Inclusion Forum; Territory Public Space Forum; Territory Forum - Practices and Territory Environment Forum and also the InovPEd Curricular Unit Health, Well-being and Architecture (FMUP/FAUP). Since 2024 she has been a researcher at the Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (CEAU/FAUP) in the Project "LOGO - LOcal Governance of housing policies. An investigation of local housing strategies" (2023-2026) coordinated by Marco Allegra at ICS-UL and Aitor Varea Oro at CEAU/FAUP, being supervised, within the scope of the project, by the latter and also Nuno Travasso (CEAU/FAUP and DARQ-UC). In this project, she presented at the 8th Meeting of the Political Economy Association the ongoing qualitative analysis of Housing Local Strategies, the tensions and contradictions in their application. This was followed in May by a presentation at the annual meeting of the Regional Studies Association, in June at the European Network for Housing Research with the co-authorship of an article in press “The New Wave of Portuguese housing policy” and in July at the annual meeting of the Association for European Schools of Planning (AESOP), the first on new housing policies in conjunction with planning through the analysis of Municipal Housing Charters, the second at a round table on housing policies in Portugal to exchange knowledge on this subject in different countries. She has published several opinion articles in national generalist newspapers on housing and a chapter in the book "Forgotten Portugal - portraits of an uneven country", coordinated by Catarina Martins and João Teixeira Lopes with the title “One house, one dream: access to public housing in Porto is not for everyone who needs it” published by Bertrand in 2024. Between 2021 and 2024 she was co-coordinator of the Housing Working Group of the European Left Party, having contacted the realities of several European countries and organized the European Seminar that took place in Porto in 2023 on the financialization of housing with several European actors. Between 2017 and 2022 she was a Deputy on the Portuguese National Assebly where she presented several proposals for housing policies. In this context, she worked on the Housing Framework Law, changes to the New Urban Leasing Regime, in the effort to include the Porto islands (degraded areas) in the Program 1º Direito, to the legal regime for the operation of Short Term Rentals in Portugal, to define the regime for the crime of Real Estate Harassment, and presented a proposal for rent prices regulation, among others. She participated in several hearings and legislative process initiatives with associations, city hall representatives, researchers and came into contact with several situations of precarious housing. She was a Political Assistant at local, national and European level between 2016 and 2017 and 2022 and 2024.