Coordinator Professor (with habilitation) in the Department of Accounting and Taxation at the Management School of the Polytechnic University of Cávado and Ave (UPCA), Portugal. She is graduated in Management at University of Minho (1997). She holds a master's degree in Accounting and Auditing (2002) and a PhD in Business Sciences (specialization in accounting) at University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain, 2007). She was the Director of the Research Centre on Accounting and Taxation (CICF) at IPCA from July 2017 to February 2022. Currently, she is the president of the scientific council of CICF and also of the management school. She coordinates the research group on accounting, reporting and Sustainability at CICF. She is ambassador of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Portugal Alliance- United Nations Global Compact Network in Portugal (UN GCNP), in the SDG 4 -Education. She is Editor of the Social Responsibility Journal and Associate Editor of the Spanish Accounting Review. She is author and co-author in many papers published in high-quality journals and books and also in several international conferences on matters related to environment accounting, non-financial reporting, sustainable development and climate change issues. She also often acts as a reviewer for different journals and international conferences. She participated in funding projects, such as HeAiCare, ORCHESTRA and ONCANavigator. She is a member of international networks (e.g. GRUDIS- Accounting Research Network and SRRNet- Social Responsibility Research Network). She was chair of international conferences such as the Portuguese CSEAR conference on social and environmental research (GECAMB 2016) and the 18th International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and 9th Organizational Governance Conference (SRRNet Conference 2019). Among the many awards she has received, it can be mentioned the Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence- 2017: Outstanding Author Contributions for the chapter ¿Determinants of Sustainability e-reporting in Portuguese municipalities: an institutional and legitimacy theoretical framework¿.