Ana Correia holds an undergraduate degree in Applied Foreign Languages from the University of Minho (2006). From 2010 to 2013 she worked as a research assistant for the corpus compilation project "Per-Fide - Portuguese in parallel with six languages: Español, Russian, Français, Italiano, Deutsch, English" (ref. no. PTDC/CLE-LLI/108948/2008), jointly developed by the Institute of Arts and Humanities and the Computer Science Department of the University of Minho.
Currently, she is a PhD student in Language Sciences, speciality of Applied Linguistics, at the same university. She has received a grant from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology to conduct her PhD project, which is a corpus-based study dealing with pronominal anaphora in simultaneous interpreting (Portuguese and English).