Degree in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon in the field of Processes and Industry. Post-graduate in Water Quality and Pollution Control, the Department of Civil Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra.
Director of the Waste Department from the Portuguese Environment Agency, I. P. since September 1, 2013. Coordination of licensing processes for waste management facilities.

Graduated as M.Sc. Science in Environmental Engineering in 1989, did a Post-Graduation scholarship in “Sciences and Sea Technology”, participated in several Oceanographic campaigns and the analysis of the gathered data.
Head of the Department of Technology and Information Systems of the Portuguese Environment Agency (APA).
For the last 28 years he’s been working in the Information Technology Field, applying it to environmental engineering problems.

Master in Environmental Engineering by Higher Institute of Agronomy – Technical University of Lisbon.
Technician in the Waste Department from the Portuguese Environment Agency, I. P. since October 1, 2013. It has developed work in medical waste policy, licensing of waste management operation facilities and licensing data management.

Master in Environmental Engineering by Higher Institute of Agronomy – Technical University of Lisbon, her professional activity has been developed in the areas of environmental consulting and research applied to the environment and agriculture, having been part of research teams for scientific projects at European level (FP7, 2010-2013), in cooperation with Brazil (Agrisus, 2014-2017) and National level (Proder, 2015-2016).