PhD in Sociology. Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL. Member of the research team that created and set up OBSERVA – Environment and Society, in which he participated in the I and II National Inquiries to the Representations and Practices of the Portuguese on the Environment (1997 and 2000) and coordinated a project on Agriculture and Environment – The application of Agro-Environmental Measures in the Western Region.

She has published works in the area of Sociology of the Environment and Rural Sociology.