Degree in Modern Languages and Literatures – French and English, with specializations in Scientific and Educational (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, 2001).
M.A. in Mediation of American Culture (University of East Anglia, 2003). Thesis: “Information Manipulation and Hyperreality – Case Studies of Cultural Wars in the American 1980s”. It is a thesis on information management, specifically on the media(tiza)tion of arts funding policies in the transition from the 1960-70s to the 1980-90s in the U.S.
PhD candidate in Mediation of European Culture (University of Sussex). Dissertation: “European Union’s ‘glocal’ reconstruction through the lenses of Radical Democracy and Third Way politics. A post-structuralist, social semiotic analysis of discourses on European citizenship and identity in the British, French and Portuguese traditional and new media sphere, from 1999 to 2019”. This is a dissertation on the (re)construction of citizenship and European identity, based on the analysis of the speeches of opinion leaders involved in mediating major political-legal, socio-economic, and cultural aspects.
Researcher-researcher at CITCEM, in the Group Information, Communication and Digital Culture of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto.
Professor and trainer of Communication, Languages and Cultural Mediation (Colégio Luso Internacional – Training Academy; Mota & Engil; Swiss Dental Services; Fernando Pessoa University; Universidade Lusófona do Porto; Faculdades de Engenharia, Letras e Polo Tecnológico da Universidade do Porto).
She was an intern and collaborator in the production and editing of communication contents at the European Commission – DG Development and Cooperation.
Founding President of the NGO NECI-Portugal/European Network of Citizenship and Identity.
Member of the Oporto Toastmasters Club, an affiliate of the American leadership and communication organization Toastmasters International, whose motto is “where leaders are formed”.
CEO of “Via GLocal”, a (in)training and communication agency that provides personalized advice to organizations that want to improve their strategic positioning or personal entrepreneurship at the management level, through the development of (in)training contents of socio-cultural mediation / Cultures, Languages and Communication.