Senior laboratory technician at the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Department of Food Safety and Nutrition. Works on food safety and quality as well as the development and implementation of analytical methods for multielemental determination of trace elements by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). She is graduated in Clinical Analysis and Public Health at Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Coimbra and master in Biomedical Science at Azores University and currently is a PhD student in the Environment and Sustainability PhD program at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with the subject “Contribution to clarify bromine contamination and effects on consumer organisms in order to assess the potential risk to human health”, supervised by Professors Maria Helena Costa and Marta Martins (FCT NOVA) and Doctor Isabel Castanheira (INSA).

ORCID: 0000-0003-3892-0614