Associate Professor and President of the Pedagogical Council of the Nova School of Business and Economics at Nova University Lisbon. Her work has been published in academic journals such as the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, European Economic Review and Economics of Education Review. She is the coordinator of the project "Decisive factors for school effectiveness: learning from the microdata of the Portuguese education system", supported by FCT 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 supported by the FCT.
She has a Bachelor’s degree and a PhD in Economics from Nova University Lisbon.