Associate Professor of sociology at the Nova University of Lisbon’s School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), and researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI). She is Director of the masters course Migration, Inter-Ethnicity and Transnationalism (NOVA University of Lisbon, FCSH), and a Member of the Advisory Council of the Cape-Verdean Observatory on Migration.
She was Chair of the Scientific Board of the Sociology department (NOVA University of Lisbon, FCSH) between 2007 and 2008, and a Member of the Executive Board of the EU-funded Network of Excellence IMISCOE (Immigration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe) between 2004 and 2009. She founded and directed SociNova, a research institute that was ranked “Very Good” by the Ministry of Science in 1999.
Her main research areas are migration, participation, development and institutions.