Fátima is a Science Didactics Expert for ESA’s Education Office, based at ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Previously Fátima worked as a Physics and Chemistry teacher and as Project Officer at Ciência Viva, the Portuguese National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, Lisbon, Portugal. She graduated in chemistry with a specialisation in teaching and also obtained a Masters degree in chemistry from Aveiro University, Portugal.