I completed my undergraduate degree in Psychology in 2015 at Eduardo Mondlane University in Mozambique. Later that year, I was awarded a Junior Graduate Fellowship by the Camões Institute in Portugal, which supported my postgraduate program in Clinical Psychology at the University of Beira Interior. In 2016, I moved to the US on a Fulbright Scholarship and completed a two-year Masters in Experimental Psychology at the City University of New York. There, I worked with Professor Yu Gao, investigating "emotion recognition based on data-driven analyses of arousal and gaze markers," as well as exploring relationships with subclinical traits, such as autism, alexithymia, and anxiety.

In 2018, I relocated to the University of Oxford in the UK to pursue a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, supported by a Medical Sciences Division Studentship jointly funded by the Clarendon Fund and the Kendrew Fund at St John's College. My Ph.D. was supervised by Professor Geoffrey Bird, and it involved investigating the "Visual and Physiological Mechanisms Underlying Emotional Processing in Autism and Alexithymia."

In 2022, I was awarded the first Experimental Psychological Society Postdoctoral Fellowship, which supported my work to develop data-driven and theoretically informed models for the production and perception of dynamic, spatiotemporal social signals conveyed by face movements. This work was in collaboration with Professor Jennifer Cook at the University of Birmingham and Professor Rachael Jack at the University of Glasgow.

In 2023, I joined the University of Bristol as a lecturer.

Outside academia, I have worked extensively in sound engineering and audio/music production