Architect (FAUL, Jan 1997), Master in Urban Design, with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal (Iscte-IUL, 2002) and PhD in Architecture and Urbanism (Iscte-IUL, 2012). She has been teaching architectural design at ISCTE since 2001. From 2016 to 2019 she was deputy director of the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at ISCTE. In recent years, her teaching activity has included teaching Architecture Final Course Project (5th year), Architecture I and II (1st year) and Architecture Project I and II (4th year). Outside of ISCTE-IUL, she has been teaching the UC Theories of the City and Territory on the Master's programme in Urban Studies (an association between the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH-UNL) and ISCTE-IUL) since 2016. In the process of teaching, she attaches fundamental importance to the construction of a design method. This cannot be an isolated act and must be strengthened by criticism. Critical reflections can develop and consolidate design practice. Building a process of "doing architecture" in the early years of learning is a lengthy and complex process. She has therefore introduced a pedagogical method based on critical reflection, through peer assessment, contributing to the student's growth. She has coordinated and supervised research in the field of architecture and urban form: Urban Morphologies, Housing, Urban and Architectural History, Urban Design and Public Space. He is supervising 2 PhD theses, one with an FCT grant and in progress at ISCTE-IUL, and the other in progress at FAUL. She has supervised 2 Thematic Master's dissertations and 20 Integrated Master's theses, most of which have been assessed with a grade above 16. She was a researcher at CEUA - Centre for Urbanism and Architecture Studies at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (2001-2006), and at CIES - Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (2012-2022) and is currently a researcher at ISTAR (Centre for Research in Information Sciences, Technologies and Architecture), a research center at the same institution. Her main research interests focus on: Urban Design, Urban History, Public Space, and Mathematical Simulation Models of Urban Form. Her current research focuses on methodologies for analysing public space. She has published several articles and book chapters with renowned publishers and in peer-reviewed journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science.