PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, with the thesis “Fintar Fronteiras. International Migrations in Portuguese Football” (2013). He is a researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, where he is part of the Democracy, Justice and Human Rights Thematic Line, and is active in the Permanent Observatory of Justice. He is a member of the Portuguese team of the FRANET network of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). He has been a lecturer at several Portuguese higher education institutions, teaching in the area of Social Sciences, holding management positions and positions on scientific and pedagogical bodies. She has participated in various research projects in the areas of Fundamental Rights, sociology of the professions, international cooperation, migration, sports labor migration, sociology of sport, biographical narratives and access to the law. Her areas of interest are the Sociology of Migration, Sports Migration, Sociology of Sport and Sociology of Law.
