Associate Professor and President of the Pedagogical Council of the Nova School of Business and Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published research in academic journals such as the «Journal of International Economics», the «Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control», the «European Economic Review and the Economics of Education Review». She is the coordinator of the project «Determinants of school effectiveness: learning from the microdata of the Portuguese education system» with FCT funding under the 2014 call for scientific research projects. Previously, she had also coordinated the project «Efficiency of the education system and the evaluation and accountability system», also funded by the FCT.
She has a degree and PhD in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.