Biographical note

Full Researcher at ISCTE-IUL (DINÂMIA’CET) and ERC Advanced Grantee, she leads the project ArchLabour (2024–2028). A former Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Lisbon (FAUL), she holds a PhD from the University of São Paulo (2004) and a Post-Doc from the University of Porto (FAUP). As a leading expert in colonial and post-colonial architecture, she has served as Principal Investigator for seven major FCT-funded projects, including the ongoing LabourMap-Macau. Her international leadership is evidenced by her role as Chair of the COST Action CA18137 (2019–2023) and as a Fellow at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2019–2020).

Her award-winning scholarship includes Nos Trópicos sem Le Corbusier (AICA/Carmona e Costa Prize, 2013). She has further distinguished herself in gender studies, notably through the project WomArchStruggle (2023–2024), focusing on women architects in former Portuguese colonial Africa, and her specialized research on female labor at construction sites. She has held research visiting positions at Ghent University and the University of São Paulo and has curated major exhibitions for CCB (Lisbon) and UIA Rio 2021. She is currently a researcher at the African Studies Center (University of Porto) and a professor in several international postgraduate programs in Portugal, Brazil and Macao. More recently she served as a juror for the 2026 Kristine Fallon Prize, which honors scholarship on women navigating and negotiating repressive political, economic, or cultural conditions (IAWA, Virginia Tech).

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