Research Fellow in the CHANGE Project – Climate, Coastal and Social Changes of the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, since June 2011. Graduated in Social and Organizational Psychology by ISCTE in 2007, with a dissertation in the area of Environmental Psychology focused on the study of the opposition to protected areas. In 2010 she completed a postgraduate degree in Environmental Management and Intervention in Business and Public Administration at the University of Barcelona.

Between 2008 and 2011 she was a program officer at the Climate Parliament in London and was responsible for implementing the project “Climate change and access to energy for the poorest people” in the African, Caribbean and Pacific regions, funded by the European Commission and Swedish Development Agency.