Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the School of Engineering of the Technical University of Lisbon
Vice-Director of the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR) where she carries out R&D work in the area of autonomous robotics being responsible for the Mobile Robotics Laboratory (LRM).
Research Interests: indoor and outdoor land mobile robot navigation, cooperative robotics and cooperative navigation, maping and world model and representation