Since 1998, Professor at the University of Algarve, where she teaches a wide range of courses in archaeology—covering Prehistory, Zooarchaeology, Archaeosciences—and cultural heritage, including Archaeological Heritage Management. She earned her licentiate and master’s degrees from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (FLUL) and completed her Ph.D. in Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Algarve (UAlg) in 2008. Currently, she directs the Cultural Heritage and Archaeology program and is an integrated researcher at CEAACP—the Center for the Study of Archaeology, Arts, and Heritage Sciences (University of Algarve Subunit). Her research spans multiple periods, from Prehistory to the Modern period, with a focus on zooarchaeology and an extensive record of publications. Her main research interests include the use of animal resources by Iberia’s last hunter-gatherers and early farmers-herders, Mesolithic subsistence and territorial strategies, zooarchaeological methodologies, and the study of human diet and animal resources in the Roman and Medieval Islamic periods in Southwestern Iberia. She has supervised numerous graduate dissertations in zooarchaeology.