PhD in Sociology, Complutense University of Madrid, 2005. She has coordinated several projects on bi-national couples, transnational families and Chinese immigrants, and she has vastly published on this field. 
Since January 2023, she is the local coordinator of the project AspirE, “Decision making of aspiring (re)migrants to/within the EU: The case of labour market-leading migrations from Asia”, on the scope of HORIZON-CL2-2022-TRANSFORMATIONS-01.  She is Member of the Organizing Committee of the Thematic Section “Migrations, Ethnicity and Racism” of the Portuguese Sociological Association, and she is co-organizing the workshops “Meetings on Chinese Studies and Seminar of Cultural Diversity in Contemporary Families”, both at Cies-Iscte.