Her main research areas are Databases and e-Learning and she is a member of the Information and Design Support Systems Research Group and also responsible for the e-learning research area at ICIST (ICIST is a R&D division of IST). Recently she has been involved in two main broad projects: eLO-Compose and Elearn-Civil. Briefly, the former is related to composing classes from available learning objects, while the later is related to e-learning technology applied to Civil Engineering undergraduate courses.