She holds a PhD degree in Computer Science and a MSc degree in Informatics at the Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon, and a Licenciatura (roughly equivalent to BSc+MSc) in Mathematics and Informatics at the University of Azores. She is an integrated researcher of the LaSIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory, and a member of the Navigators research group. She has been participating in SEGRID (Security for smart Electricity GRIDs) and DiSIEM (Diversity-enhancements for Security Information and Event Management) european projects. Her research interests are concerned with software security, vulnerability detection, source code static analysis, runtime protection, machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, and security.