Matilde Gonçalves, who holds a PhD from Université Paris 8 and Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and a researcher at the Linguistics Centre of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (CLUNL), where she works in the Grammar & Text group. Framed in text and discourse linguistics, particularly socio-discursive interactionism, her work focuses on language and mediation, the development of human beings throughout life through language practices, the relationship between social activities, genres and texts and scientific literacy.