PhD in “Translation and Terminology” (NOVA University Lisbon and University of Aveiro), she developed a thesis on the presence and translation of terms in literary texts. She has a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures (1985) from NOVA FCSH; was a teacher of Portuguese Language and Culture at the Spanish Institute of Lisbon (1985-1989); Researcher at the Institute of Theoretical and Computational Linguistics (1990-1995); Copywriter at the Leo Burnett Agency (1995-2000), scriptwriter and literary translator (2000-…). She is currently a reader at the Camões Institute at the University of Algiers 2 (Institut de Traduction).