European Doctorate from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Pontevedra at the University of Vigo (2016), benefiting from FCT BD scholarship between 2010-2015 (SFRH/BD/64733/2009) during which she attended an academic residency at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Spring 2013 Term. Currently professor of Photography in the School of Arts of Catholic University of Portugal [EA-UCP] and integrated researcher at CITAR R&D unit of EA-UCP in Cinema and Cinematic Arts sub area. Bachelor's degree in painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, and Erasmus scholarship held at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, both in 2001. | In her doctoral dissertation "Intimacy beyond the surface: The work in dialogue between artists" (2008-2016) the concept of intimacy was played inside the thesis, shaped in a series of conversations with (women) artists. Far off as topic, it gained a physical and a mental space within the abstraction of words continuously translated into images: work processes, concerns and certainties were shared, intimacy was then complicit and performative. | First job as an assistant production in the art gallery Presença in Porto, she then started an academic career in 2003 at EA-UCP, still maintaining a professional bond. As a discipline Photography enters the Sound and Image degree at EA-UCP in the academic year 2008-2009, taking part in its definition with a pioneering program on a theoretical-practical framework. In 2015 she implemented CU Analogue Photography and in 2018 had the new challenge of structuring a hypothesis of a brief history of photography with CU Image Fundamentals. Started a collaboration with the master's degree in photography in 2020, also taking part in bachelor's degree in Cinema since its inaugural year. Most recently she was invited to collaborate in DCTA doctoral study in CU Ontology of Art Technologies. | In between teaching, she developed artistic work, sporadically exhibited in independent spaces away from a commercial framework. In 2018 she made a site-specific installation with Arlindo Silva at Espaço Mira, both presenting self-portraits, opposing painting and photography: "Grisalha" and "Mar/Mãe", male and female, husband and wife. In 2022 she joins "Participo! Women's Civic and Political Participation" funded by the EEAGrants Portugal Program, operated by CIG. Formerly invited by Nuno Crespo and Margarida Dinis, a dialogue was established with Teatro Praga under Susana Mendes Silva's mediation. 21 women were photographed sharing an activist personality, associative practices or volunteering; the series was entitled "Prova de Luz, 21 Poses" enlarged in dry plates and exhibited in itinerancy across Porto, the collaboration culminated in a published book. | Collaborated with fellows' artists and researchers in: Leonorana #2, "Families", independent co-editorial practice, by chief editor’s invitation Isabel Carvalho, joined by ed. Tânia Espinoza (2018). Plus, “Nem luz nem sombra, a luz que acolhe” (2023) book chapter in Baraona, I. & Guadêncio, S. (Eds.) A mão que segura e a que se eleva no ar. ESAD.CR & LIDA. Funded by FCT (UIDB/05468/2020). Derived from Isabel Baraona, Mafalda Santos and Susana Gaudêncio exhibition at Rampa [an independent curatorial project in Porto] in March 2020. | Have contributed to UCP’s scientific peer-reviewed journals JSTA (2023) and Diffractions (2019) in scientific committee. | Was an invited jury in several academic bachelor's (ESMAD) or master's degrees (FBAUP). For two years she has been working with Porto’s young community as an invited jury of Artistic Aptitude Proofs in Art Secondary School Soares dos Reis.