With a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE (2015),is a researcher at CIES-IUL since 2020 and is a visiting assistant professor at ISCTE's Department of Social Research Methods (25% assignment). She began working in research in 2008 (at CICS.NOVA), and has extensive experience in research projects in the areas of education, welfare, public policy, school administration and management, diagnostic studies for the preparation of strategic documents and project/programm evaluation models using the Theory of Change. In addition to these areas, her interests include the development and application of "multi-method" methodologies (with experience in quantitative and qualitative techniques).