She is a researcher at CES-UC, as part of Thematic Line 2 - Democracy, justice and human rights. She is a researcher contracted under the Scientific Employment Stimulus Program (CEECIND/00126/2017: 2019-2025), with the project “FORK. Food, Regulation, Kinship: considerations on contemporary law, families and parenthood through the lenses of food”. She holds a PhD in Sociology of Law, within the scope of the “Law, Justice and Citizenship in the 21st Century” program, from the University of Coimbra, with the thesis “The Courts as spaces of recognition, functionality and access to justice - the case study of the Family and Children's Courts in Portugal”. She is a Former Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities “Recht als Kultur/Law as Culture”, at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research interests and publications focus on the issue of judicial architecture and the spaces of justice(ies); the changes in family, child and youth law, and their relationship with the issues of gender and juvenile delinquency and crime; the relationship between law and the humanities; and, more recently, the relationship between food and law
