Made her studies in Lisbon University, having specialized in an interface area between metallogeny, the study of processes that form mineralizations, and igneous petrology, the study of magmatic processes. Worked as Invited Professor in mineralogy in the Faculty of Science of Lisbon and as a consultant to the Mineral Exploration Industry for Angola. In 2013, moved with her family to the Sultanate of Oman in the middle East and became Assistant Professor in the German University of Technology in Oman, affiliated to Aachen University. She integrated the team of the Oman Drilling Project, of the International Continental Drilling Program that performed scientific drilling of the Samail Ophiolite, the largest portion of oceanic crust and mantle transported to land. She then resumed research activity and was awarded a Reintegration Marie-Slodowska Curie to study sulfur and metal cycling in the oceanic crust. Since then she is a researcher in Horizon Europe project SEMACRET that aims at developing methods for sustainable exploration of critical raw materials.