Hospital Assistant at the Espírito Santo Hospital of Évora. Graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. Training at the Schizophrenia Unit of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the Early Intervention Team in Psychosis at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Electroconvulsive therapy training at Bellvitge Hospital in Barcelona. Has a post-graduation in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy and training in Interpersonal Psychotherapy.

Author or co-author of 3 scientific articles, 1 book chapter, 34 oral communications and 36 posters at international and national congresses.

Member of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health and the Spanish Society of Psychiatry.