Associate Professor, Deputy Director and Head of Quality at the Department of International Relations of the Autonomous University of Lisbon, Deputy Director of OBSERVARE and Editor of JANUS.NET, e-journal of international relations. Coordinator of the Chair Luís Moita: Humanism and International Relations. She is an integrated researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of the New University of Lisbon (IPRI-NOVA) and Chair of the European Working Group on Climate Change (EWG13) of Eurodefense Portugal.
She has been a guest lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Beira Interior, the Department of Sociology at the University of Évora, the Department of Tourism at the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technology and the Coimbra School of Agriculture. He collaborates with the Air Force Academy, the National Defense Institute (IDN) and the Military University Institute (IUM).
Her research interests focus on International Relations and Sociology, with an emphasis on African development, namely Small Island Developing States, an area in which she specialized during her Master’s (African Studies, 1998), PhD (African Studies, 2005, with an FCT grant) and Post-Doctorate (at the Centre for African Studies-IUL between 2006 and 2011 with FCT funding), coordinating a research project with FCT funding. She is interested in research on themes related to international cooperation in conjunction with socio-environmental issues, including international agreements on the environment, the impacts of climate change and their responses, local intervention in environmental preservation, including environmental education programs, and the conservation of endangered species promoted by international partnerships.
In parallel with her academic activity, she has carried out consultancy work evaluating development cooperation projects in Portuguese-speaking African countries (Angola, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe), promoted by international organizations (The World Bank Group and the International Labour Organization, STEP-Portugal Project) and by Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe civil society organizations (NGDOs), with EU funding, and was part of a team working on a training project under bilateral cooperation (Ministry of Labour).
