Geographer, Master (1996) and PhD in Anthropology (2002) from New Lisbon University. Senior Researcher at the National Laboratory for Civil Engineering (LNEC), Lisbon (Portugal), where she has been operating since 1991. She holds a specialisation degree in Anthropology of Space from the Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy) and a post-doctorate in Urbanism from Lusófona University, Lisbon. She has worked on a number of national and international projects covering issues centred on the relationship between space, heritage, society and culture, with several publications related to the studies carried out.