Architect trained at the Faculty of Architecture of Porto (FAUP), completed an international exchange at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) and EHL Campus - International Architecture, Lausanne (representing PUC). She worked as an independent architect or in co-authorship and worked at the architecture studios of Alberto Campo Baeza (Madrid) and Álvaro Siza (Porto). In parallel, she was a teacher in the postgraduate course in interior design and spaces, (esmad) and is currently a teacher of project 4 in the integrated master's degree in architecture, (faup). She is also a visual artist with a practice as Maria Souto de Moura Studio at the same time as she is studying for a master's degree in fine arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto (fbaup).