Has a PhD in Tourism Management and Planning and is a professor at the School of Hospitality and Tourism (ESHT-P.PORTO). She teaches several 1st cycle curricular units, such as Management of Tourism Resources and Tourism Planning, as well as 2nd cycle curricular units, such as Tourism Destination Development and Thematic Tourism.

She advises master’s dissertations regarding Tourism Management, in a partnership between ESHT/IPCA.

Her main line of research is connected to tourism in border regions, having been the author and co-author of several scientific articles published in international journals with a referee.

She is a member of CITH, the Centre for Research in Hotels and Tourism (ESHT-P.PORTO), and CEI, the Centre for Intercultural Studies (ISCAP-P.PORTO).