Associate Professor at Escola Superior de Saúde do Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, PhD in Linguistics by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and Université Paris 8 (cojoint programme), and researcher in the group LiFE – Formal and Experimental Linguistics of Centro de Linguística da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She was a visitor at MIT, University of Cambridge and Laboratório de Psicolinguística e Aquisição da Linguagem da Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses on Language Acquisition and Language Impairment, and currently she is working on the development of assessment and intervention tools for children with language impairment.