She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. She is a senior researcher at the Center for Social Studies and member of the Humanities, Migration and peace Studies Department - University of Coimbra - where she lectures in several PhD Courses, co-coordinates the publication 'Oficina do CES' and the Research Program 'Epistemologies of the South. She co-coordinated the Gender Workshop Series between 2011 and 2022. She is a senior research member of the Centre for Peace Studies Gernika Gogoratuz where she co-coordinates the Research-Action program 'Territories in Conflict , Mozambique'. She coordinates the Advanced School 'Feminist Ecologies of Knowledges'. She is an associated-professor at the College of Education of the Polytechnic College Coimbra and an associate researcher at CODESRIA and the Center for African Studies at Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. In 2017, the President of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste awarded her with the Order of Timor-Leste. Her research interests are feminisms and postcolonialisms; other feminist economies and women's economies; post war transition, peace and memories; women's human rights in the Indian Ocean space. She has published several scientific books and articles in several countries and languages of which stand out: Women, Territories and Identities (vol 1, 2 and 3) (Ed.), Territories in Conflict (Ed.), Women InPower Women. Other economies created and led by women from the non-imperial south; Never Trust Sindarela. Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, Mozambique and Timor-Leste; Essays for Democracy. Justice, dignity and good-living; They in the South and North; Women's Voices of Timor; Timor-Leste: Chronicle of an Observation of Courage; Feto Timor Nain Hitu - Seven Women of Timor; Walking Through Other Paths and Roots of Participation.