She has a PhD in Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid and is an assistant researcher at CIES-Iscte, Lisbon. She has coordinated several projects on binational couples, transnational families and privileged migrations (Golden Visas, Non-Habitual Residents) in Portugal. She is currently the national coordinator of the AspirE project, “Decision making of aspiring (re)migrants to/within the EU: The case of labor market-leading migrations from Asia”, as part of the European HORIZON projects, funded by the EC. The projects she has coordinated have resulted in several articles published in national and international journals such as International Migration; Population, Space and Place; Journal of Ethnics and Migration Studies; Journal of Chinese Overseas; Diaspora, Indigenous and Minority Education; and Portuguese Journal of Social Science. Since 2019, she has been a member of the Coordinating Team of the Thematic Section Migration, Ethnicity and Racism of the Portuguese Sociological Association (APS).
