PhD student in Sociology at Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), with the project "Ser Cozinheiro hoje: percursos de formação e inserção profissional" [Being a cook today: training and transition to labor market pathways], within the project “Making dream jobs come true: transitions to new professional worlds attractive to young people”. Graduated in Psychology, she holds a master degree in Health psychology, both by Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada – Instituto Universitário (ISPA-IU).

Since 2004 has been colaborating with several research projects in the Social Sciences area, about young people, expectations of transitions to labor market, employability and higher education, mostly with Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa). She was a teacher at Escola Superior de Biotecnologia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa, from 2007 to 2010.