An associate researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre, she received her PhD in Communication Sciences in 2017 from the University of Minho. At CECS, she is coordinator of the Barometer for Information Quality. She is Vice-Chair of ECREA Health Communication Section, and associate editor at European Journal of Health Communication.
She was an assistant professor at Universidade Lusíada – Norte and at Instituto Politécnico de Bragança. She was a Visiting Scholar at the New York City Food Policy Centre, CUNY School of Public Health – Hunter College, and was a researcher on the European project HeaRT – Health Reporting Training Project, funded by the European Commission, and on the project A Doença em Notícia, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.
She is a member of several scientific associations, such as SOPCOM, ECREA and ICA, and regularly participates in their meetings. She carries out research in the fields of journalism, health journalism, health communication, news sources and health literacy.