She is an Adjunct Professor in the field of Education Sciences at the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu. She is an elementary school teacher, special education teacher and trainer in the field of education.
She is currently an integrated researcher at the Center for Studies in Education and Innovation (CI&DEI) and a collaborating researcher at the Center for Research in Education (CIEd) in the area of Education, Special Education, Use of ICT in Education, Self-regulation, Literacies.In 2020, she completed the Specialization course in educational use of ICT at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. In 2017, she completed her PhD in the area of Child Studies, Special Education, in the promotion of writing success through the use of self-regulation strategies with the use of technologies in a classroom context, at the University of Minho, in Braga, Portugal (2017).
She has been part of the research team of projects in kindergarten and primary education contexts, such as: Permane(cer) – Writing Community; Media Literacy in Pre-school; Writing in Higher Education; EARLY – Robotics-Enhanced Distance Learning Model for 3-7 Year Olds; Kids Media Lab I&D (KMLII); Erasmus Kit @; Pigaffeta project; The Effects of Socioeconomic Status and Multilingualism on Children’s Cognitive Development.