Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and a researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, where she directs the Mind, Brain and Education working group. She is an educational psychologist with a PhD in Health Sciences and wrote the essay Mente, Cérebro e Educação (2023, FFMS) and, in co-authorship, When Your Child’s Brain Goes to School (2017) and Neuromitos (2020, Contraponto).