PhD student at the École des Sciences Criminelles at the University of Lausanne since March 2019 
Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology in a project studying transgression in the prison context

Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto since 2008, and in 2022 she received the Pedagogical Innovation Award from the University of Porto.
As a researcher, has collaborated with the Universities of Porto, Lausanne and Zurich on various national and international projects, including the Effects of Drug Substitution Programmes on Offending among Drug-Addicts Project, which produced a Campbell Collaboration meta-analysis. These collaborations have resulted in several publications of scientific articles and the coordination of national and international works.