She has a degree in Sociology, a master's degree in International Migration from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto. As a research fellow, she has participated in various projects on topics such as immigration from Eastern European countries to Portugal, the academic and professional choices of students, violence against the elderly, integration into the labor market and the professional precariousness of graduates. She has worked on market research; monitoring POCH indicators; and was a researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (ISFLUP) between 2010 and 2020. She has been at Pordata since 2017, where she works on data in the areas of employment and the labor market; companies and electoral participation.