Graduated in Law (2002), Master in Legal Sciences (2010) and PhD in Law – Legal and Civil Sciences (2015), she is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon.
She participates, as Coordinator, in the organization of conferences and postgraduate courses in the areas of Labour Law and Social Security Law. She participates regularly as a guest speaker in congresses, conferences and seminars of a scientific nature, especially in the labour and civil law areas, and also often takes part in postgraduate courses in the areas of Labour Law, Social Security Law, Obligations Law and Law of Transport.
She is a founding member and Deputy Director of the International Labour Law Review of the FDUL Institute of Labour Law. Since February 2024, she is also Secretary General of RDES – Revista de Direito e de Estudos Sociais. Since 2015, she has been an Editor for the Revista Jurídica Luso-Brasileira, a publication of the Research Centre for Private Law.
Since December 2023, she integrates the list of presiding arbitrators of the Economic and Social Council.
She is the author of several articles in periodic scientific publications and collective works, especially in the areas of Labour Law, Obligations Law, Guarantee Law, Transport Law, Leasing Law and Consumer Law.
She was a Specialist Advisor to the Secretary of State for Employment, at the Ministry of Economy and Employment (2011/2012). She was an assistant lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon in the subjects of Labour Law I and II, Obligations Law I and II, Real Rights and Maritime Law (2008-2015). She was also an Assistant at the Faculty of Law of Bissau (2003-2008), under the Cooperation Protocol agreed between the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon and the Portuguese Institute for Development Support, where she was responsible for the courses on Introduction to the Study of Law, General Theory of Civil Law, Obligation Law, Special Contract Law and Private Law (Obligation Guarantees). In this context, she carried out consultancies for several entities, namely for the UNDP – United Nations Development Program, the IPAD – Portuguese Institute for Development Support and the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the World Bank.