A life between
libraries and living rooms
With over twenty years of experience across Portugal and Sweden, I bring the same meticulous attention to detail to organising knowledge as I do to designing spaces. Two disciplines, one philosophy: everything has its place, and beauty lives in thoughtful arrangement.
Information Specialist
With over twenty years of experience in library and information science across Portugal and Sweden, I have worked in academic, public, research, and cultural heritage settings. I'm especially passionate about bridging traditional library services with new technologies — finding better ways to organise, preserve, and share knowledge in the digital age.
Librarian
Malmö University — Malmö, Sweden
Apr – Dec 2025. Working to make information more accessible and useful for students, faculty, and researchers. Bridging traditional library services with new technologies and digital knowledge management.
Metadata Specialist
BTJ Sverige AB — Lund, Sweden
Oct 2015 – Apr 2025. Catalogued books, AV-media, films, streaming content, games, and e-books in MARC 21 and Bibframe according to RDA, with classification in SAB and DDC. Curated multilingual media for children's and youth libraries, and managed B2B relationships with Swedish and Danish film distributors for the Viddla streaming service.
Librarian
Lunds Stadsbibliotek — Lund, Sweden
Mar – Oct 2015. Delivered multilingual reference and outreach services — including library bus coverage — to a linguistically diverse community across Lund municipality. Designed a strategic multicultural service proposal benchmarked against IFLA guidelines.
Librarian
Raoul Wallenberg Institute Library — Lund, Sweden
Oct 2014 – Mar 2015. Supporting research in human rights, reinforcing the belief in the power of information to drive positive change.
Archivist / Project Specialist
DGPC – Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Ministry of Culture — Portugal
Oct 2012 – Jun 2013. Sole archival specialist on a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian-funded project to catalogue, conserve, and digitise the Leisner Archive (c. 49,500 documents). Designed the complete archival methodology, catalogued 3,591 epistolary documents in four languages, and directed the digitisation of 4,304 pages published via DGPC and DAI portals.
Librarian
Teatro Nacional D. Maria II — Lisbon, Portugal
Dec 2011 – Jul 2012. Working with historical theatre collections and performance archives, deepening an appreciation for cultural heritage and the preservation of memory through meticulous cataloguing.
Librarian
Agrupamento de Escolas Prof. Lindley Cintra — Portugal
Dec 2010 – Jun 2011. Restructured a disorganised secondary school library into an active learning environment within one academic year: redesigned the physical space, produced ~500 catalogue records in Docbase, and coordinated seven cultural and literacy programmes including a book fair and cross-school reading projects.
Information Specialist / Librarian
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa — Lisbon, Portugal
Feb 2007 – Sep 2010. Contributed to the EU-funded Osório Mateus digitisation project, cataloguing a multilingual theatre collection spanning the 17th–21st centuries in 13 languages using UNIMARC. Part of the technical team credited in the published catalogue (ISBN 978-989-95461-0-3, 2008), with 10,548 normalised records integrated into the Collective Catalogue of the University of Lisbon.
Master's in Library and Information Science
University of Lisbon — Lisbon, Portugal
Thesis in archive architecture, exploring the intersection of physical space, information organisation, and cultural memory.
Post-graduation in Information Science / Library
University of Lisbon — Lisbon, Portugal
Post-graduation in Editing
Universidade do Algarve — Faro, Portugal
Licenciatura in English Language and Literature
Universidade do Algarve — Faro, Portugal
Interior Designer
As the creative director at Interiors By Lu, a boutique studio based in Malmö, I transform living spaces into personalised, inspiring environments. Embracing both Scandinavian minimalism and Mediterranean warmth, each project blends natural materials, clean modern lines, and carefully selected vintage elements.
Creative Director
Interiors By Lu — Malmö, Sweden
Leading a boutique residential interior design studio with a commitment to creating spaces that are not only aesthetically pleasing but truly reflective of each client's unique style and needs. Specialising in Scandinavian minimalism fused with Mediterranean warmth: natural materials, clean modern lines, and carefully selected vintage pieces.
Skills & competencies
Library & Information Science
Systems & Digital Tools
Interior Design
Languages
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