Associate Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, where she teaches since 1987. She has a degree in sociology from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a Ph.D in sociology since 2003 from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto (FLUP). Between 2008 and 2010 she did a post-doctorate in sociology at FLUP and at the University of Padua (Italy) on the topic of immigration, ethnicities and religion. In 2011, she was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Theology at the University of Uppsala (Sweden) and in 2017 she was in the USA with a scholarship from the State Department, under the Fulbright Program "Religious Pluralism". Since 2013, she has been the national coordinator of the EUREL network (Sociological and Legal Data on Religions in Europe and Beyond). She was a member of the Council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion, as a representative of the Iberian Peninsula (2018). She was also a member of the board of Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia (1998-2000) and, in 2018, she founded and became coordinator of the Sociology of Religion section of APS. She is currently a member of the board of the Sociology Department of and of the PhD in Sociology. She was director of the Master's course in Sociology at FLUP from 2005 to 2008 and a member of its Monitoring Committee (2012-2019). She is the supervisor of several master's and doctoral dissertations and participated in juries of academic tests. She has created continuous training courses on various topics in the field of sociology of religion. She is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the University of Porto (IS-UP), having been one of the founders and members of the first board. She coordinated the research group "Social Recompositions and Territory". She is a collaborator researcher at the Center for Research in Theology and Religious Studies (CITER) at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Her scientific work has focused predominantly on religion, e.g., religious pluralism; migrations, ethnicity and religion; Portuguese Catholicism, Protestant and Evangelical communities. These themes have been investigated fundamentally in various international and national networks and projects, of which the following stand out: "Religious Identities and Social Dynamics in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon" (2018-2019), funded by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation; the projects carried out within the scope of the GERICR network, "L'Eglise Catholique face aux nouveaus défis éthiques, sociaux et politiques, poses dans les pays d'Europe Occidentale de tradition catholique" (2007-2010) and "Las consecuencias sociales de la nueva pluralidad religiosa in European countries with a historic Catholic majority" (2009-2013), both financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science; "Immigration, ethnicity and religion: Eastern European religious and immigrant communities" (2008-2010), supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology; "Church and religion in an enlarged Europe" (2004-2008), supported by the Volkswagen Foundation; "Religious and moral pluralism" (1995-2001) and funded by the European Science Foundation. She was a member of the international project team European Interdisciplinary Master African Studies (EIMAS), funded by the European Commission (2019-2023). Among published works, I highlight the books: Da Torre de Babel às terras prometidas (2006); Religião em movimento, 2010, (Ed. Vilaça & Pace.), 2010; Portrait du Catholicisme au Portugal (co-authored with M. João Oliveira) (Ed.Perez-Agóte, 2012); The Changing Soul of Europe: Religions and Migrations in Northern and Southern Europe (Ed. Vilaça et al., 2014); "Contemporary Challenges to the Regulation of Religions in Europe" (Ed. Vilaça et al., 2023)