Senior Researcher at CECC - Centro de Estudos em Comunicação e Cultura - UCP

1994-2000 Ph.D.: Modern Languages and Literatures (Contrastive Linguistics - Interactional Sociolinguistics), Portuguese Catholic University, Faculdade de Letras (Viseu), Dissertation: « "Je voudrais dire un petit mot" - Langage et pouvoir: analyse du (-es) discours en télévision ».

1990-1994 M.A: Applied Linguistics (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas - Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Dissertation: "O discurso e as vozes em Publicidade Teledifundida - análise semiolinguística" [The discourse and the voices in Television Advertising - a semiolinguistics analysis].

Coordination of several international research projects.

October 2007 - 2011: Coordinator of the PhD course in Linguistics and Language Teaching

October 2000-2010: Supervisor of the M.A. in Linguistics and Language Teaching

October 2004 - 2010 Supervisor of the M.A. in Communication and Expression

January 2001-present: Portuguese Catholic University, Auxiliar Professor, French Language and Linguistics and Didactics of French, Department of French.