Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra (UC) – PhD in Portuguese Linguistics (UC). Her main research interests are: (i) PL1 and PL2 academic writing teaching and learning (e-learning and instructional materials); (ii) students’ writing corpora building; (iii) analysis of stylistical and sentence structures, lexical and semantic choices in different academic genres (abstracts, PhD theses and research articles).