She is a Visiting Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design at the University of Minho and an integrated researcher at the Landscapes, Heritage and Territory Laboratory (Lab2PT). She has a PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), with a CAPES scholarship, for her thesis A arte da nostalgia: experiência e infância segundo Walter Benjamin (The art of nostalgia: experience and childhood according to Walter Benjamin) and a PhD in Contemporary Art and Culture from the State University of Rio de Janeiro for her thesis Sociedade anónima: da anonimidade às comunidades sensíveis (Anonymous society: from anonymity to sensitive communities). Master's degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art from the Fluminense Federal University (UFF-Brazil), with a CAPES scholarship, with the dissertation Aura, vestige and experience of art in Walter Benjamin. She has a degree in Fine Arts and a BA in Painting (ESAD.CR, Portugal). In 2003 she won the 1st “Installation” Prize (DRAC, Terceira, Azores). She took part in two Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation artistic residencies in Lisbon (Creativity and Artistic Creation Program, Visual Arts Course, 2006); in 2007, as an artist-in-residence at Sítio das Artes / O Estado do Mundo, at the Centro de Arte Moderna in Lisbon. She was awarded a scholarship for Artistic Creation by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2005 and 2020); the National Culture Center (Portugal, 2006) and the Institute of Arts and Living Science in Lisbon in 2007. She was part of the residency program at the Institute of Systems and Robotics of the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon and produced an audiovisual project that was exhibited at the Pavilion of Knowledge in the show entitled “Experimentation: Art/Science and Technology; Exhibition in the Residency Network Program” in 2008. In 2009, she was an intern from the Ministry of Culture / Inov-art Program at the Niterói Museum of Contemporary Art. She has participated regularly in solo and group exhibitions and in national and international video festivals (Portugal, England, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Canada and Brazil). Since 2009 she has developed several projects in Brazil, including the Biblioteca de Afetos (Library of Affections), at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC, Niterói), Ateliê Nômada (MAR); the Ouro Preto and Mariana Winter Festival. She was a member of the Experimental Center for Education and Art at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro from 2010 to 2013. She has given workshops and coordinated numerous actions in different museums. She has organized and led workshops at festivals, seminars and reflective meetings on art in various Brazilian states (MG, ES, RS, CE, RJ). She dedicates her research to the study of collective artistic processes and Environmental Aesthetics.