PhD from Université Paris 8 (Études Portugaises, Brésiliennes et de l´Afrique Lusophone) and from Minho University (Language Sciences, in cotutelle), she is a Guest Assistant Professor for the Department of Humanities at Universidade Aberta. She is an integrated researcher at Linguistics Research Centre of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (CLUNL), a member of the Research Group “Grammar & Text”, and a collaborating researcher at the Distance Education and eLearning Laboratory (Le@d) of the Universidade Aberta, where she is part of the El@n group (Teaching Languages Online). She has developed and published research papers in the framework of Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis, with particular focus on political discourse, as well as in the area of teaching Portuguese as a foreign language.