She has a Ph.D. in Legal and Political Sciences from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra. She is an Associate Professor at the School of Law of the University of Minho (EDUM), Director of the Master’s Degree in Administrative Law and Coordinator of the Specialised Training Course in Public Governance and Fundamental Rights in the Digital Age. Researcher at the Research Centre for Justice and Governance of the School of Law of the University of Minho, where she directed the project “Smart Cities and Law, E-Governance and Rights: Contributing to the Definition and Implementation of a Global Strategy for Smart Cities” (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000063), from 2021 to 2023. She was a research fellow of DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), between August-September 2001 and October-March 2002, which corresponded to a period of research at the Institut für öffentliches Recht IV, at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany, and a fellow of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, April-June 2003, which corresponded to a period of Research at the Istituto di Diritto Processuale Civile of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy. She is a member of the editorial board of the Portuguese Public Law Journal and an associate editor at The European Review of Digital Administration & Law (ERDAL) (http://www.erdalreviview.eu). She is an Open Science Ambassador at the Arqus European University Alliance (https://arqus-alliance.eu/). She is an Associate Researcher at UNICAMP’s Paulista Centre for Energy Transition Studies (CPTEn, in Axis II, relating to the regulation of energy transition). She is also a member of the Observatory of Public Procurement-OCPBra., Mackenzie University, São Paulo. She authorizes monographs and scientific articles in Public Law, particularly Administrative Law, especially in Digital Public Governance Law, Local Authorities, Public Procurement, and Administrative Litigation.