She earned her PhD in Economics from ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa (ISEG - UL, Lisbon, Portugal). She is an author of a number of articles about Open Macroeconomics, Business Cycles, Endogenous Growth Theory, and Empirical Economics, published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Ecological Economics, Economic Modelling, Open Economies Review, Oxford Economic Papers, Public Finance Review, and Regional Studies.