Professor of Pharmacology and Neuroscience at NOVA Medical School and Principal Investigator at CEDOC of NMS. She pursued her PhD in Pharmacology from the New University of Lisbon (Portugal) and in Biotechnology from the University of Valladolid in 2007, on the role of purines in hypoxic signaling in the carotid body. Afterwards, she dedicated to understand the pathophysiological alterations in the CB and autonomic nervous system that are in the genesis of cardiometabolic and respiratory Human diseases. As a PI, she developed a new line of research on CB and dysmetabolism, based on the pioneering idea that CB controls glucose homeostasis.

In 2009 she was awarded with the L’Oreal Medals Honor for Women in Science Portugal and since then her group won several prizes from the Portuguese Society of Diabetes and from the Pulido Valente Foundation.