Politics

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.

PhD candidate in Comparative Politics at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of the Universidade de Lisboa and a visiting assistant professor at the School of Social and Political Sciences of Universidade de Lisboa. (ISCSP-UL).
Member of the Portuguese team of the South European Governments Project (SEGov).

Last updated: september 2026

Coordinating researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences and professor of Political Science at Universidade Lusófona.
He holds a PhD from the European University Institute (1992) and has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and Georgetown University, as well as a visiting researcher at Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley.
He served as president of the Portuguese Association of Political Science. He recently published «The Essentials of Portuguese Politics».

Last updated: September 2026