Ia am a Sociologist, 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. 

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

I am a 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 Call.  I coordinate a Research Project funded by FCT entitled "Linked Lives, alongitudinal, Multilevel and Mixed approach to family life course", co-coordinate a project funded by FCT entitled "Biographical echoes: triangulation in the study of life histories". I am also the local coordinated of the Project  European Cohort Development Project, funded byH2020 and coordinated by the Metropolitan Manchester University. 

I am also the Co-coordinator of the RN Family and Life Course of the Portuguese Sociological Association, Global Representative of the Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies, member of the Pool of European Youth Researchers of the Youth Partnership and Vice Coordinator of the RN30 Youth and Generation of the European Sociological Association. I am part of the Commission of evaluation of the National Youth Plan.  

I co-coordinate, with Ana Caetano, since 2017,  a series of seminars on  "Biographies and Trajectories". 

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, Sociologia, Contemporary Social Science; and the book chapters on Youth related issues in edited books by publishers like Routlegde, Brill, Polity Press or Palgrave Macmillan. 

I am preparing two edited books for different series at 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.