Full Professor in Education Sciences at the University of Coimbra School of Psychology and Education Sciences. She did her PhD and aggregation in Educational Psychology at the University of Coimbra. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, coordinated some of these courses and supervised numerous Master’s and PhD dissertations. Her research interests focus mainly on instruction and school learning, areas to which much of her published work refers (books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings). It has also been in these areas that she has been working very hard on research projects, coordinating them or joining the teams in question.