She has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Education and Psychology at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), since 2004 and an integrated researcher at the Center for Educational Research and Intervention at the University of Porto (CIIE). His main research interests and publications are related to teaching and learning methodologies and teacher professional development, with an emphasis on cooperative learning, formative assessment, critical and creative thinking and communities of practice (ORCID 0000-0003-2855-9634). He participated in several national and international events and/or conferences as a member of the scientific and organizing committee, namely in the scientific and organizing committee of the 2nd International seminar on Critical Thinking and in the scientific committees of the ATEE Winter Conference 'Science and mathematical education in the 21st century, XVIII ENEC - National Meeting on Science Education III ISSE - International Seminar of Science Education Education and XIX ENEC - National Meeting on Science Education /IV ISSEInternational Seminal on Science Education: Transversalities: Dialogues and Interactions. She is a founding member since 2012 of the multidisciplinary community of sharing and practice on critical and creative thinking at UTAD (webPACT) and Crithinknet-Rede Nacional de Pensamento Crítica He participated in national and international projects, namely in the Pedagogical Innovation projects “Critical Thinking in Network in Higher Education” financed by FCT, in the European Erasmus + project “Crithinkedu: Critical Thinking Across the European Higher Education Curricula”, in the OECD- international project CERI “Fostering and Assessing Creativity and Critical Thinking Skills in Higher Education” and in Projeto Way- Who saw you and who sees you! , financed by FCT. She has co-authored 10 Education books. And she is a trainer of educators and teachers at various levels of education, including higher education, especially in the scope of Cooperative Learning, Formative Assessment and Critical and Creative Thinking and she was awarded two pedagogical innovation awards.