She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA and is a Professor of Economics at the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). She has extensive experience in project coordination and her main areas of interest are Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, with an emphasis on the economic valuation of environmental goods and the formulation of models with application to natural resources. Her work has been published in international scientific journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Land Economics, Environment & Resource Economics, the Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Energy Economics and Ecological Economics. She has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Environment and Development Economics since 2008 and of the journal Economia Agraria y Recursos Naturales (EARN) since 2014. She was Vice-President of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) and President-elect of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (AERNA) between 2008 and 2012. She has been scientific co-director of the Nova Environmental Economics Knowledge Centre since November 2017, the year the knowledge centre was launched. She is also Portugal's representative at EAERE and the Nova SBE representative on the Academic Council of Nova 4, the Globe interdisciplinary platform at Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: October 2021