She is also the Coordinator of the R&D Group on Transportation Technology at the Centre for Mechanical Technology and Automation. She is developing research in the field of mechanical engineering - energy and transportation since 2000, namely in the numerical modeling of road traffic, fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. She completed her PhD in Instituto Superior Técnico – Technical University of Lisbon, within a partnership with the Institute for Transportation Research and Education of North Carolina State University, USA. She started working at UA in 2005.