She is a nutritionist and got her Bachelor’s degree from the Lisbon School of Health Technology (2001), where she began her career in the academic area (2001). Named a specialist in Community Nutrition and Public Health by the Nutritionists' Association (2020), she has been an assistant professor at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine since 2017. She has been active in teaching and research since 2001, focusing on nutrition and public health, nutritional epidemiology and community nutrition, with a special interest in the role of food and nutrition as health promoters throughout the lifecycle, from conception to adolescence. She was born in Lisbon in 1979.

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