Born in Lousã in 1963, she first worked as a Technical Assistant at BAD (Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas) in 1990 at Lousã City Council Library. She embarked on the BAD Professional Technical career path the following year, having taken the BAD Association Preparatory Course for BAD Auxiliary Technicians in Coimbra. As a worker-student, she graduated in Geography, specialising in Spatial Planning and Development in 2000, at the University of Coimbra Faculty of Arts, where she was transferred and began working in March 1999. In 2004, at the same institution, she completed a Specialist Course in Documentary Sciences, having attained the status of Higher Technical Officer at the BAD in 2005. In 2014, under the guidance of Prof. Maria Manuel Borges and Prof. António Tavares Lopes, she took her master’s degree exams in Information, Communication and New Media (now known as Information Science), involving the presentation of a thesis entitled “Inclusão digital e serviços de acesso à informação para deficientes visuais: a situação das bibliotecas da Universidade de Coimbra”. She is currently responsible for 14 FLUC Libraries, including the collection of the library that belonged to the Experimental Phonetics Laboratory.