Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Universidade Politécnica de Lisboa. She received a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of Lisbon in 2008. She has recently led 2 projects and has participated in more than 2 conferences, having supervised about 30 master's thesis projects. She has published 9 articles in different journals and 30 in conference proceedings. She is the President of the Portuguese Society of HVAC Engineers and participates in the Technical Committee of the Sectoral Standardization in Portugal for Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, at the National Standardization Body ONN-IPQ - Instituto Português da Qualidade.  Her teaching subjects include applied thermodynamics, fundamentals of air conditioning, air conditioning equipment technologies, special technical installations, and his research interests include engineering sciences and mechanical engineering technologies with a focus on thermodynamics, especially energy and fuels, combustion, emissions and pollutant formation, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration and energy efficiency.