I am a Research Fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. I'm currently working on the project "Neurodiversity in the workplace: an ethnography on inclusive employment policies (IEPs) and citizenship". This project aims to explore inclusive employment policies (IEPs) for neurodivergent people and how claims for inclusion and citizenship entangle notions of competence and self-sufficiency. Here I investigate governmental strategies and plans of work inclusion; the narratives shaping their design and implementation; and their impact on neurodivergent people’s lives. I have published on the subjects of autism and advocacy, mothering practices, care as gendered labor, fieldwork, and emotions. I give courses on digital ethnography and medical anthropology at the graduate and post-graduate levels in Portugal. I supervise PhD students and mentor master and doctoral students in Portugal and Italy. 

I completed my PhD at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa in 2018. In my dissertation, I have explored parents' care experiences with autistic children, their advocacy journey, and the use of social networks as a political tool to promote disabled people's rights.