Associate Professor, Scientific Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Communication, Media and Digital Environments, and Coordinator for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Design, Technology and Communication (IADE) of the European University, she completed her European PhD (2016) in Communication Sciences (funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology) at the University of Minho, with a thesis on the reception of current news by children and young people. Alongside her coordination and teaching activities, she is an Integrated Researcher at UNIDCOM/IADE and a Collaborating Researcher at CECS/UMinho. She coordinates the R&D project MeInWar – Study on the media and social representations of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, funded by the European University. She is also a member of the research team of the R&D project YouNCivic – Youth, news and citizenship, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021). She publishes in national and international indexed journals and is the author of books and book chapters in the field of communication and media studies.

She is a member of the Scientific Council, the Pedagogical Council and the Ethics Committee of the European University.