PhD in Sociology at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Professor at the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (ESEC-IPP) and Integrated Researcher of the Interdisciplinary Center of Social Sciences of the New University of Lisbon (CICS.NOVA) and the Interdisciplinary Coordination for Research and Innovation of IPP (C3I-IPP).

Coordinator of the Master of Gerontology of IPP.

Areas of interest – Palliative care – end-of-life trajectories – ageing – distributed cognition – health professions and policies.