Biography

Full Professor at Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Coimbra, since 2026. Member of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra since 2013. Researcher of the Research Line Risk(s), Ecologies, Health. Member of the coordination team from 2015 to 2019 of the of the POSTRADE ex-research group. Researcher at the "ProChild CoLab Against Poverty and Social Exclusion" Collaborative Laboratory (http://prochildcolab.pt/en/home/). From 2025 onwards, I began representing CES on the Strategic Council. PhD in Educational Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra (in collaboration with the University of Oxford in the UK) on the field of socio-educational intervention with families to promote the cognitive development of children, at the universal, selective (poverty; social exclusion; imprisonment) and indicated (children and young people with conduct problems) levels. Completed the Habilitation in Educational Sciences in 2024. Her research interests include parental education and family education, parental burnout, early childhood education and socio-educational intervention with children, youth and families. Coordinator (IR) of the research project PTDC/PSI-PED/102556/2008 " Prevention / early intervention behavioral disorders: effectiveness of parental and school programs " funded by FCT (2010-2013). Researcher at the UC of the project ISOTIS - Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society- H2020-SC6-REV-INEQUAL-2016 (principal investigator from 2017 to 2018)(http://www.isotis.org/). Researcher at the CES' project KINDER Tackling gender stereotypes in education and early childhood: building a Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in Children´s Education (Funding Entity European Commission; Coord. Tatiana Moura). Researcher at Portuguese member of the international consortium of the Investigation of Parental Burnout (IIPB) project (https://www.burnoutparental.com/international-consortium?lang=en).