Assistant Professor (2013) at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (DEC-SHRHA), collaborator of CIIMAR - Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research and member of the Specialized Committee of River Hydraulics of the Portuguese Water Resources Association (2015). Graduated (2001) and PhD (2013) in Civil Engineering, by FEUP. From 2001 to 2003 she worked at EDP Produção EM.

In recent years she has been devoted to the study of erosion, sediment transport and hydraulic structures (spillways and energy dissipation). She was principal investigator of the MORPHEUS project (2016-2020), which involved three national institutions (FEUP, IST and UM). She is the author of 25 scientific publications, reviewer of several international scientific journals. She was a member of organizing and scientific committees of several national and international conferences.

Within PRODEC and MIEC she supervised 10 MSc dissertations and is supervising a PhD thesis. She is the regent of the curricular units of Hydraulic and Fluvial Works 1 and 2 of the 5th year of MIEC (since 2014/2015) and of the curricular unit of Advanced Laboratory Techniques in Hydraulics of PRODEC (since 2016/2017). She is, since 2017/2018, responsible for the Hydropower module of the Renewable Energy III curricular unit of the 5th year of the MIEQ. During her 14 years of teaching, she received 10 Pedagogical Recognition and Incentive Awards from FEUP and was considered potential candidate for the Pedagogical Excellence Award from FEUP in 5 academic years.