She teaches at ISCTE-IUL, from undergraduate to PhD level, focusing on subjects such as Democracy and Democratisation and Quality of Democracy. She is a member of three research networks: the Quality of Democracy Barometer; Lusophone Connections: dictatorship and democracy in Portuguese; V-Dem Southern Europe – Varieties of Democracy. She was a researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-IUL). She has also carried out research at the University of Utrecht, the European University Institute in Florence, the University of São Paulo, the University of California, Berkeley and the Juan March Institute in Madrid. She has a PhD in Political and Social Sciences, a Master's degree in Comparative Politics and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology.