I hold a BA in Sociology (2005) from Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, where I also completed a Post-Graduation in Data Analysis for Social Sciences (2009) and a PhD in Sociology (2013). Since my earlier years as a sociology student, I have always found the apparently small details in people¿s lives fascinating, being a mix of singularity and social patterning. In order to pursue this intellectual curiosity, it was an obvious path for me to work with a biographical approach, and I have been able to do that for the most part of my research career. In my BA thesis I worked on the relation between common photographic practices and identity, which allowed me to understand the importance of visual elements in the sense people make of themselves and their lives. In my PhD research the focus was on personal reflexivity, understanding it as a socially differentiated competence and a requirement of social existence, i.e. the way people think about themselves, others and the world considering their circumstances. Since then I have been continuing the investment in biographical research, namely experimenting new ways of applying this kind of approach. Between 2015 and 2019 I developed a sociological research on biographical crises (FCT post-doctoral grant + CEEC Junior Individual Call). I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods of Iscte and work as an Integrated Researcher at CIES-Iscte. Recently I coordinated a project entitled "Biographical echoes: triangulation in the study of life histories" (2018-2022) and I was a researcher in the project Linked Lives, a longitudinal, Multilevel and Mixed approach to family life course" (2018-2022), both funded by FCT. I am a board member of the Research Network 3 - Biographical Perspectives on European Societies, of the European Sociological Association. I have several publications on the topics of reflexivity, biographies, and the structure-agency relation in high indexed journals, and on national and international books.