PhD in Sociology, Full Professor and Coordinator of the Sociology Unit at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP-ULisboa). Founder and coordinator of CIEG, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, the only research centre in Portugal exclusively dedicated to gender, feminist and women's studies. With an interdisciplinary perspective, CIEG was founded in 2012, and rated Excellent by international evaluations panels (2015-2019) promoted by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her experience in scientific positions at national and international level is extensive. She was elected member of the Executive Committee of the European Sociological Association (ESA) (2005-9) and as President from 2009 to 2011. Amongst other evaluation activities within the European Commission (EC), she integrated the evaluation panel SH2-Institutions, Values, Beliefs and Behavior of the European Research Council (ERC), where she continues to serve as remote evaluator. At national level, she was elected President of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS) (2002-6), and appointed Member of FCT Scientific Council for Social Sciences and Humanities (2012-14). Since 1988 she coordinated several research and evaluation projects, most of them funded through competitive calls, conducting research on family, gender, marriage, divorce, work and family, poverty, drug addiction, youth and children/youth protection. The research carried out has considerably outreach resulting in publications disseminated both to the academic community and to media. The social impact of her work and of the teams she directs, is highly reputable and has contributed to change several laws in Portugal (e. g. Divorce reform, 2008, Harassment, 2018). She is author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books, 4 of them as a sole author, and more than 60 book chapters and papers in national and international scientific journals, in Portuguese and other languages. She belongs to various editorial teams of national and international peer-reviewed journals. Since 1995, she participates in several European research networks and, since 2002, belongs to the national executive committee responsible for implementing the European Social Survey in Portugal. She coordinated diverse work packages from research projects within Framework Programs 6 and 7 (WORKCARE - 2006-2009; WORKCARE Synergies (2009-2011). As Coordinator of the Sociology Unit (ISCSP-ULisboa), she was co-responsible for the creation of a PhD in Sociology (2014-) gathering several institutions and universities. She had the initiative of creating a PhD in Gender Studies, gathering in consortium CIEG/ISCSP-UL, the Faculty of Law and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of Nova Univ Lisbon. She created several post-graduate courses: ISCTE, Master in Family and Society (2002-); ISCSP, Master in Sociology and Family and Gender (both in 2012-); Postgraduate Course on Gender Equality (2018-); Training Courses on Gender Equality ministered in ISCSP for very wide audiences (2016-). Recent projects: Epiteen24 (2013-15), funded by FCT; Sexual Harassment and Bullying in the Workplace (2015-17), funded by EEAGrants; Gender Equality over the life course (2017-18) funded by FFMS. More recently, she coordinated the international funded (EEA Grants) project Ge-HEI-Gender Equality in Higher Education Institutions, promoted by (DGES), in collaboration with (A3ES) and the Univ of Iceland (RIKK); and was responsible for a work package of the project ALLINTERACT-Widening and diversifying citizen engagement in science, funded by Horizon2020. Since 2020, she belongs to the Management Board of A3ES. Since 2023, she is a member of the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV). Recently, she was distinguished with the Scientific Merit Medal 2023, awarded by the Portuguese Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education.