Academic and professional activities

2023-01-20 - Participation in the project "Planos Municipais Participativos para a Integração de Migrantes: Aprendendo com as melhores práticas e construindo pontes entre os EUA e Portugal" (ACM)

2022-03-01 to 2022-08-31 - Research grant holder of the project "Vo(i)ces: Promoting the health of migrant populations in times of pandemics" (PT/2021/FAMI/693), ENSP, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

2019-05-16 to 2019-05-16 - Training in the European Commission:"Migration and Asylum: the Portuguese case"

2018-09-29 to 2018-09-29 - Trainer in "Transculturality of Trauma", III Course on Psychotraumatology of the Trauma Centre/CES-UC;Advanced Training Course - CES-Lisbon & CES-Coimbra.

2016-12 to ...-..-.. - Co-Coordenation of the CES Inter-Thematic group about Migration (ITM)

2016-10-06 to 2016-10-06 - Trainer in the Advanced Training Course "Refugees: How to Prevent Trauma", Cáritas Diocesana de Coimbra.

2016 to ...-..-.. - Member of the Trauma Observatory (OT- CES)

2015-10-01 to 2020-02 - Trainer in ´CES vai à Escola`: "A Crise dos Refugiados na Europa e as mobilidades internacionais"

2009-12-01 to 2011-06-20 - Advisor, Secretary of State for Disability and Assistant to the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (MTSS)

2008-03 to ....-..-.. - Researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais.

2008 to 2010 - Co-cordenation of the project "Famílias Imigrantes: estudo de painel de Brasileiros, Cabo-Verdianos e Ucranianos em Portugal"

2007 to 2013 - Researcher in the international project "MoHProf - Mobility of Health Professionals" (No.: Health-F2-2008- 223049), IHMT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

2007 to 2012 - Monitoring Group of the Project SAUDAR and SAUDAR + - Health, Gender and Migration (Coord. GRAAL).

2006-01 to 2009-11 - Doctoral Fellow, Foundation for Science and Technology (IME/SDE/81861/2006).

2004 to ....-..-.. - Collaborating in Portuguese Observatory on Health Systems (OPSS).

2003 to 2004 - Audit "Project Socio-Professional Integration of Immigrant Doctors", Department of Health and Human Development, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

2001 to 2004 - Research assistant at the Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra, within the European research project PEMINT-Political Economy of Migration in an Integrated Europe (Contract No.HP CT-2001-00059), under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Ioannis Baganha

2001 to 2001 - Forming the chair "Sociology of Public and Professional Ethics," in CEFA, Coimbra.

2000-10-01 to 2009-11-30 - Researcher at the Center for Family Law, Faculty of Law, University of Coimbra.

2000 to 2001 - Formation of secondary school teachers on the use of teaching materials included in Pedagogical Briefcase - April 25th, An Adventure for Democracy, learning resource produced by the Documentation Centre on April 25, University of Coimbra.

1995 to 1999 - conducting research work and data processing for the Centre for Social Studies.

Other Activities

2016 - Participation in the process of peer review of the scientific journal: Comparative Migration Studies

2014-09 - Participation on the peer review process of the scientific journal: "Journal of International Migration and Integration"

2014-05 - Participation on the peer review process of the scientific journal: "Health Policy" and "Human Resources for Health"

2013-04-01 to 2019-12 - Co-coordenation of the IMISCOE research group YAMEC (Young Adult Mobility Options and Alternatives in Times of Economic Crisis. The Way Forward): http://www.imiscoe.org/20-research/research-clusters/146-yamec

2007-03 to 2007-12 - Participation in the Organizing Committee of the Conference "Health and Migration in the EU", held under the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union. Responsible for organizing the workshop "Accessibility and Quality of Care."