Associated Professor of the Faculty of Arts - University of Porto, Researcher of the R&D unit CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Center "Culture, Space, Memory") , collaborating researcher of the R&D unit CEHR (Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa - Portuguese Catholic University), vice president of Comission International de Diplomatique, member of the Academia Portuguesa da História and of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Medievais (SPEM). She was Scientific Coordinator of CITCEM between November 2011 and May 2017, and responsible for the Strategic Project (financed by the COMPETE Programme) from 2013 to May 2017.
PhD in Medieval History in 1999, with the Dissertation "A Chancelaria Arquiepiscopal de Braga 1071-1245" (The archiepiscopal chancery of Braga 1071-1245), at the Faculty of Arts of University of Porto.
Teaching activity is centered on Paleography and Diplomatics and History of Medieval Portugal.
Responsible for dissertations and theses (Mestrado e Doutoramento) on subjects like Medieval Paleography e Diplomatics and Medieval Portuguese History.
Researcher in several R&D projects, namely: 

• “A sociedade medieval nos séculos XIII a XV”, financed by JNICT (Projecto nº PCSH/C/HIS/1003/95)
  
• “Do Douro Internacional ao Côa. As raizes de uma fronteira”, co-financed by FEDER and by PRONORTE (sub-Programa C, Projecto nº 616-C) (1997-1999)
• “Fasti Ecclesiae Portugaliae: prosopografia do clero catedralício português (1071-1325)”, financed by FCT (POCTI/HAR/42885/2001)
  
• “El Pontificado Romano: relaciones con el Noroeste Peninsular y bases documentales para su estudio hasta el año 1198”, in the  University of Santiago de Compostela and financed by Dirección Xeral de I+D de la Xunta de Galicia (Proxectos Xunta PGIDT/PGIDIT 07SEC016210PR) and by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciência de Espanha (HUM 2007-66725/HIST)
• “La configuración de Europa en los siglos XI al XIII y bases documentales para su estudio: el papel del Papado en la Península Ibérica” in the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela and financed by the MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA E INNOVACION- España - HAR2010-20834)
• "DEGRUPE - A dimensão europeia de um grupo de poder:o clero e a construção política das monarquias ibéricas (sécs. XIII-XV)", financiado pela FCT (refª PTDC/EPH-HIS/4964/2012)
• Proyecto de Investigación de I+D Escritura, "Notariado y espacio urbano en la Corona de Castilla y Portugal (Siglos XII-XVII)", Universidad de Sevilha funded by the Ministerio de Educación y Ciência de Espanha  (financiado por Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion- España - Ref. HAR2015-63676-P)
• "Iglesia y Escritura en el Occidente Peninsular (Castilla y Portugal). Siglos XII-XVII" (2018-2021, financiado por Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad de España – Ref. HAR2017-85025-P)