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Full Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Minho. Since 2012 she has been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo (DCP and IRI). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent in the UK. She is the author and coordinator of several books and has published a significant number of articles in leading international journals, such as the "Journal of Common Market Studies", "Cambridge Review of International Affairs", "European Security", "Journal of Contemporary European Studies", "International Politics", "Journal of European Integration" and "Cooperation and Conflict".
In October 2010 she was awarded the 'UTL/Santander Totta Scientific Prize 2010' for her research activity in the scientific area of International Relations.

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.

Visiting assistant professor in the Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences at the University of Aveiro. He is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the same university. He holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Porto.

PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. He has a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Aveiro and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Brasilia. He worked as an economist for almost a decade in public institutions in Brazil. His main research interests are democracies, corruption and public opinion.

He' s the Statistical Data Manager at Pordata-FFMS. He holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa, in Brazil, and a master's and bachelor's degree in Economics from the same institution.
He was an international researcher at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, in Germany, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has published work on the economics of crime, corruption and incentive mechanisms.

Last Update: March 2024