Researcher at the LabCom - Communication and Arts research unit, University of Beira Interior (UBI, Covilhã, Portugal). Visiting researcher at the Center for Forest Fires Studies (CEIF), Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal). PhD candidate in Communication Sciences (UBI/LabCom). Her research focuses on risk and crisis communication in the government context. She is developing a model to verify the quality of information issued about forest fires. She is a lecturer at the University of Beira Interior (UBI, Covilhã), University of Coimbra (UC, Coimbra) and at University Europeia (UE, Lisbon), where she teaches to the degree in Communication Sciences. She has a master's degree in Strategic Communication: Advertising and Public Relations from UBI and a bachelor's degree in Social Communication, specialising in Public Relations, from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil). She has a postgraduate degree in Organizational Communication from the Methodist University of São Paulo (Umesp, São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil). With 20 years of professional experience, among other activities related to government communication, she has worked as public relations, communication advisory and press advisory for the Federal Government of Brazil (2005-2011), in the Ministries of Education, Justice and Sport, and for the Digital Office of the Governor of the State of Rio Grande do Sul (RS) (2011-2012). At the RS Department of Tourism (2012-2014), she coordinated the Tourism Working Group for the 2014 FIFA World Cup. She has also worked as a communications consultant for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and the Organisation of Ibero-American States (OEI).