She holds a degree in Psychology, a specialization in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho (Portugal), a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the School of Psychology at the University of Minho (with a scholarship at Durham University – United Kingdom), and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Neuropsychophysiology Laboratory of the same university.

She is a faculty member of the Graduate Program in Human Developmental Sciences at Mackenzie Presbyterian University and served as coordinator of the graduate program from 2021 to 2023.
She is a research productivity fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and has received the FAPESP Young Investigator Award – Phases 1 and 2.

At CISM, she works as an associate researcher in the “Primeiros Laços” program, which is part of the Implementation Science module.