She teaches Terminology, Terminology and Ontologies and Lexicography and Terminology in PhD Programs and Master at NOVA FCSH. At the NOVA FCSH, she is the scientific coordinator of the PhD Programme in Translation and Terminology and of the specialization in Terminology and Management of Information for Special Purposes (Master in Linguistic Science).

She is the Head of the Linguistics Centre of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa – CLUNL - and coordinator of Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology Group - LLT. Since 2021, she is the NOVA representative for Digital Transformation in the Strategic partnership between Lancaster University and Universidade NOVA de Lisboa - NOVA Lancaster for Sustainability. She is a collaborator researcher at Digital Humanities Lab and a consultant at the infrastructure ROSSIO, the Portuguese representative at the" Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities". (DARIAH). She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Value-Based Healthcare CoLAB.

She a member of ISO TC 37 “Language and Terminology" since 2000. She has been the chairwoman of the ISO/TC 37/SC 2 “Terminology workflow and language coding” since 2015. Until November 2016, she was the convener of the ISO/TC 37/SC1 WG3 for the revision of the 704 and 1087 standards. She is presently the national representative of the Instituto Português para a Qualidade (IPQ) at ISO TC 37 / “Language and Terminology”. In April 2021, she created the Portuguese mirror committee and is the chairwoman of the IPQ/TC 221 “Terminologia, Língua e Linguagens”. She is also a member of the Portuguese IEP/TC 025 “Grandezas e Unidades”, the Portuguese mirror committee of ISO/TC 12 and IEC/TC 025, both entitled “Quantities and Units”.

She was previously the Training School Manager - COST Action IS1305: European Network of e Lexicography - ENeL - (2013 - 2017). She is currently affiliated with the European Lexicographic Infrastructure - ELEXIS - www.elex.is and the COST Action CA 18209: NexusLinguarum - European network for Web-centered linguistic data science (2019 – 2023). She is an MC Member, a WG2 - Linked data-aware NLP services (Task 5.2 Co-Leader) and a WG3 - Support for linguistic data science member.

She was President of the European Association for Terminology (EAFT) between 2000 and 2006.

In 2011, she was honoured with the title of “Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the Ministry of Culture and Communication of the French Republic.