Graduated from the Polytechnic Institute of Beja in Environmental Engineering (2009), it was here where I had my first experience working abroad, doing my thesis withing the Erasmus Program at the University of Extremadura (Spain). After graduation, I applied to the Leonardo Da Vinci Program (2009) and went for 6 month to work as a researched at the University of Pisa (Italy). During my internship in Italy I applied to the Erasmus Mundus program for a Master in Quality in Analytical Laboratories, which I started at the end of this same year (2010). This International Master took place at the University of Barcelona (Spain) during the first year, and the second year, for my research project, I went to the Central South University (China). By the end of 2012 I started working at CEBAL - Centro de Biotecnologia Agrícola e Agro-alimentar do Alentejo, where I still work as a researcher. In 2018 I was awarded with a FCT scholarship for my PhD project, entitled "Study of Portuguese extra virgin olive oils according to the producing agricultural method: A qualitative and ecological approach". At the moment I am working at CEBAL as a researcher in two main projects, OLEAdapt  and INOVCIRCOLIVE.