I am a Sociologist. I completed my BA in Sociology in the New University of Lisbon in 2001, having later on completed my Masters degree on Family and Society  (ISCTE-IUL, 2006) and the Post Graduation in Data Analysis in Social Sciences (ISCTE-IUL, 2008). I concluded my PhD in Sociology in ISCTE-IUL on the Transitions to Adulthood in Portugal and Europe, where I followed the critical, theoretical and methodological life course perspective. During my PhD and Pos Doctoral Research I short-visited the University of Tampere (Finland) and Brown University (USA) as a visiting student and/or visiting researcher. 

I've been interested and dedicated to topics such as Social trajectories, Quantitative and Qualitative research methods, Life Course Perspective, Sociology of the Family, Social inequalities and the multiple faces of precariousness in Academia. 

For the moment, I am Assistant Professor in the Methods of Social Research Department and an Integrated Researcher at CIES-IUL, where I before was an Assistant Researcher by the CEEC 2017 Individual competitive Call. Since 2024, I co-coordinate, at CIES, the research group "Gender, Life Course, and Health". 

Ico.coordinated the Families and Life Course Research Network of the Portuguese Sociological Association from 2013 to 2023.  

I coordinated a Research Project  entitled "Linked Lives, alongitudinal, Multilevel and Mixed approach to family life course", co-coordinated a project funded by FCT entitled "Biographical echoes: triangulation in the study of life histories", both funded by FCT. I was also the local coordinated of the project COORDINATE, funded by Horizon2020 and coordinated by the Metropolitan Manchester University. I am associate editor for Journal of Youth Studies. 

I was part of the Commission of Evaluation of the I Portuguese Youth Plan. I was responsible for the collection and analysis of the results of the questionnaires applied to young people, that served and scientific evidence and support to the conception of the I and II National Youth Plans. 

 I co-coordinate, with Ana Caetano, since 2017,  a series of seminars on  "Biographies and Trajectories", where researchers from national and international universities present and discuss results and research trajectories of biographical and life course projects. 

I have been publishing nationally and internationally in different formats, from which I would underlie the scientific articles published in journals such as Quality and Quantity, Journal of Youth Studies, Sociology, Child in Care Practice, Contemporary Social Science; Scientometrics, for example; and the book chapters on Youth related issues in edited books by publishers like Routlegde, Brill, Polity Press or Palgrave Macmillan. 

Recently I have published in the Tinta da China Publisher, with Ana Caetano, Anabela Pereira and Sónia Bernardo Correia, a book entitled "De viva Voz. Ecos Biográficos da Sociedade Portuguesa". In 2022 I edited with Gary Pollock the Routledge Handbook for Inequalities and the Life Course. In 2021 I edited with Ana Caetano a book on "Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives. Theory, Methods and Agendas", by Routledge. 

I believe in public sociology and as such have been publishing scientific opinion short pieces in Newspaper O Público and in semi-scientific on line Plataforma Barómetro Social, about topics such as scientific precarity, conceptual plagiarism and youth. I participated in an edited of the 45 graus podcast, and in a FFMS event, both about youth.