Fellow researcher at the Post-Doc Programme in Integral Human Development with the project “Between difficult heritages and art studios: mapping discourses and practices on art and mental health in a transdisciplinary perspective” and collaborating researcher at the Museum Studies (IHA-NOVA) and at the Arquivos Marginais (UDESC-Brasil).  She holds a PhD in History of Art (2019, FCSH-NOVA), a Master in Social Anthropology (2011, FFLCH-USP) and a degree in Social Science (FESPSP, 2008). Her work has contributed to expanding the debate on art and mental health in Portugal and raised questions in psychiatric institutions about the need to preserve the cultural assets. In the last years, she has working with psychiatric archives with special focus on art collections, holding debates on difficult heritages and instable archives, besides working madness as a significant concept for the arts field. She has experience with organization and preventive conservation of artistic and documental archives, motivated by the academic research and her position in Banco de Arte Contemporânea-MGCC (EGEAC) where she worked for four years.