She has a Ph.D. in Education Sciences, in the knowledge area of ICT, from the University of Minho, since 2009. She has a Postdoctoral in Educational Technology at the Institute of Education of the University of Minho, with the project Kids Media Lab: Technologies and Learning Programming in Preschool Age, completed in 2019. Concludes in July 2021 the post-graduation "The Tufts Early Childhood Technology (ECT) Certificate Program" from Tufts Graduate School Of Arts And Sciences - Tufts University (Boston-USA). And did a post-graduate course in Multimedia in Education at the University of Aveiro, where she also obtained a degree in Early Childhood Education. Currently (September 2022), she is an Assistant Professor at the Open University of Portugal. She has been a Higher Education Teacher in the area of Information and Communication Technologies, in the Department of Communication and Art, in the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (2009-2022). She has published books, several book chapters, articles in journals, and papers at international and national conferences. She belongs to several scientific committees of international journals and international and national conferences, with whom she collaborates in the evaluation of scientific articles. She is interested in the area of technologies in education, computational thinking, programming, and educational robotics in the early years of schooling in formal and informal learning contexts.