Born and living in Porto, she is an Associate Professor at the University of Aveiro (UA), integrated researcher at the INET-md and collaborator at CESEM at FCSH-University Nova de Lisboa, where she also taught. Improvisation and musical understanding in learning, studied in her doctoral thesis, are themes that she chooses as a teacher and musician, as well as creativity, collaborative practices and participatory art in educational context, about which she writes and designs articles and projects, some in collaboration with other researchers. She teaches Music Didactics in the Masters in Music Teaching and Elementary Education courses, in the Department of Communication and Art and in the Department of Education and Psychology. As a pianist, singer, composer and lyricist, she dedicates herself to the creative and interpretative study of Song, having recorded the original albums Mulher Avestruz (2003), Colapsopira (2009), Paluí (2013), Massaiá (2023), which represent the result of the search for innovation and development around that musical genre. Stylistic fusions, especially jazz, fado, popular or “classic” music, as well as the solo format, voice and piano, the improvisation, the phonetic and literary imagination and the recreation of pianistic structures and forms to vocal and thematic expansion are the center of her interpretative, expressive, timbral and creative study. The musical work Paluí constitutes the genesis of transdisciplinary research and artistic (co)creation projects that have been developed in the Portuguese community, such as If You Want to Know What Paluí Is …(2015), and Is Paluí Here?...(2019) – this last guided by the fight against the stigma of mental illness –, involving almost a thousand people from different educational, social and institutional contexts (schools, universities, hospitals), and which she has presented at international conferences, also as a keynote speaker. Just like Massaiá, musical work still under construction, where Spaces of Sound: Massaiá in the Recreation of Polyphonies of Meaning, financed by INET-md and FCT, is germinated, aiming on the study of dialogues between music, visual and plastic arts, photography, video and multimedia. She has created and directed scenic music performances for children and music teachers, such as An American Dream (2011) and In Chant We Tell Christmas (2013), at the invitation of the Educational Service of Casa da Música (Porto), and, as an artistic result of the project implemented in the Primary Schools of Santa Maria da Feira, Paluí: Journey Through Sound Stories that the Portuguese Language Tells. Her artistic activity includes: collaboration with musicians such as Brendan Hemsworth, Elizabeth Davis, José Fidalgo, António Aguiar, Arnaldo Fonseca, Pedro Almeida, Carlos Mendes, Andrés Tarabbia, Mário Santos in recordings and concerts; participation in radio programs (Cinco Minutos de Jazz, Paixões Cruzadas) and soap opera soundtracks; performances as a guest artist at Tedx-Aveiro in 2013 and as a singer in concerts across the country, including with the Filarmonia das Beiras orchestra; the co-realization of several music videos, documentaries and concert films, several of them repeatedly awarded at festivals from around the world, such as Navegar, Paluí (2014) and À Parte da Vida (2024), from the musical work Massaiá. She studied with several researchers and musicians, such as E. Gordon, C. Azzara, B. Bolton, J. Paynter, Helena Sá e Costa, C. Bochmann, having attended the Porto Jazz School, where she worked with Paulo Gomes. Her interest in voice improvisation also materializes in the study of Voice and Body (Z. Molik), studying with Jorge Parente, and Circle Singing (B.McFerrin), working regularly with Sofia Ribeiro, Manuel Linhares, Tiago Rizumik and Juan Andrés Ospina. She completed: PhD in Musical Education (2006/UA), Master's in Musical Sciences (1992/UC), Degree in Philosophy (1989/UP), Piano Superior Course (1987/CMP).