PhD is an architect, architecture critic and historian. Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon, she teaches Theory of Architecture and Critical History, and is Chair of the Architecture Scientific Board and in charge of the Architecture PhD program, as well as leader of the Heritage research line of CiTUA. She has been invited professor at universities worldwide, such as the University of Tokyo, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Katholik University Leuven, Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona and Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura ¿ Universidad de Navarra, as well as Faculty of Architecture University of Porto (FAUP). She has a degree in Architecture (ESBAL, 1982), a Master¿s degree in Art History (UNL, 1994) with a thesis entitled Os Verdes Anos na Arquitectura Portuguesa dos Anos 50 (FAUP Ed., 1997), holds a PhD (IST-UL, 2003) on culture and technology in Modern Architecture (Idade Maior, FAUP Ed., 2015), awarded the X Bienal Ibero-Americana de Arquitectura y Urbanismo Prize in 2016. President of Docomomo International and editor-in-chief of the Docomomo Journal between 2010 and 2021, her mandate was marked by the transformation of the organization into a truly worldwide network and the Docomomo Journal into the only international periodical which provides a critical look at the contemporary context focused on a broad vision of the Modern Movement Architecture and its reuse. She is chair of the Docomomo International Scientific Committee on Publications (ISC/P), and member of the ISC on Interior Design (ISC/ID), Registers (ISC/R), and Education+Training (ISC/E+T). Her research field is the critical history and theory of Modern Movement architecture. On this field she has published books and essays - namely Key Papers in Modern Architectural Heritage Conservation (with Liu Kecheng, 2012) and Modern Heritage. Reuse, Renovation, Restoration (Birkhäuser, 2022) -, curated exhibitions, organized scientific events, supervised PhD and MSc theses, taken part in juries and committees, and given lectures. She coordinated also the research project Exchanging World Visions, which publication Modern Architecture in Africa: Angola and Mozambique (2014) was awarded with the Gulbenkian APH Prize 2014; between 2017 and 2020 she coordinated the research project CuCa_RE: Cure and Care_the rehabilitation, from which resulted the publications Cure and Care. Architecture and Health and Curar e Cuidar. A arquitetura da saúde em Portugal (1901-1976). She has been invited as keynote speaker at several leading universities such as Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Switzerland), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), Katholik University Leuven (Belgium), Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura ¿ Universidad de Navarra (Spain), Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona (ETSAB, Spain), Politecnico di Milano ¿ Polo di Mantova (Italy), Faculty of Architecture, Brno (Czech Republic), University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture (US), Rice School of Architecture (US), Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Brasilia (Brazil), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, Brazil), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Mexico), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile), University Eduardo Mondlane (Mozambique), Xi'an University of Architecture & Technology (China), Tongji University, Shanghai (China), and University of Tokyo (Japan). She is president of the Portuguese section of the International Association of Art Critics, AICA-SP and Docomomo Portugal, and was vice-president of the Portuguese Chamber of Architects. In 2006, his Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic made her with the Commander of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique for her work on behalf of the Portuguese architecture and its promotion in Portugal and abroad.