2012-04-01 - Researcher on the project "Disabled intimacies: sexual and reproductive citizenship of disabled women in Portugal", funded by Science and Technology Foundation. Centre for Social Studies.

2010-10 - Phd Student in the Doctorate Programme of Sociology, with the subject: Closed lives? - A sociological analysis about the impacts of mental illness on the individual trajectorie. School of Economics, University of Coimbra.

2008-03 - Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (Research Group on Citizenship and Social Policies)

2008 to 2010 - FCT Scholarship Researcher for the Project "Deinstitutionalization of mental patients". Centre for Social Studies.

2006-05 to 2007-12 - Member of the research team of the project "Microentrepreneurship in Portugal". Centre for Social Studies.

2006-03 to 2006-05 - Collaboration on the european Project "Eurostudent 2006/2007". Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology.

2005-11 to 2006-02 - FCT Scholarship Researcher for the Project "The regulation of the consumption in Portugal". Centre for Social Studies.

2004-10 to 2005-10 - FCT Scholarship Researcher for the Project "Unemployment and over-indebtedness in Portugal". Centre for Social Studies.

2004-06 to 2006-02 - Member of the research team of the Observatory of Consumer Indebtedness. Centre for Social Studies

2004-03 to 2004-05 - Collaboration on the european Project "Eurostudent 2003/2004". Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology

2000 to 2001 - Research Assistant at the Centre for Social Studies.

Other Activities

2008 - Member of the Research Group "Social Policies, Labor and Inequalities (POSTRADE)" at the Centre for Social Studies