PhD in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage from the School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2023). Master’s degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, specialising in Sculpture/Woodcarving, from the same institution (2015). Degree in Art – Conservation and Restoration from the School of Arts, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2012), and degree in Fine Arts – Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (2008).

Conservator-restorer and researcher, with particular focus on religious heritage. Her research combines historical sources, inventory, technical and material analysis, conservation, and devotional practices. She has published the results of her research in scientific journals and other publications and has presented her work at national and international scientific conferences.

Since 2023, she has been part of the FCT-funded project Holy Bodies | An Atlas of the corpi santi in Portugal (https://doi.org/1054499/2022.01486.PTDC), at the HERCULES Laboratory, University of Évora, contributing to the inventory, historical and material study, documentation, and conservation of the simulacra in Portugal, as well as to interdisciplinary research campaigns and heritage dissemination and mediation activities.