Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics of the Department of Linguistics of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities and researcher in the Linguistics Research Centre of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Her main research areas are generative second language (L2) acquisition, comparative syntax, and L2 teaching. Her work focuses on English and Romance languages, particularly European Portuguese. She has participated in funded research projects in the following areas: L2 acquisition, learner corpora, and L2 teaching.