Associate Professor, Deputy Director and Quality Officer of 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. Chair Coordinator Luís Moita: Humanism and International Relations. She is an integrated researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IPRI-NOVA) and Chair of the European Working Group on Climate Change (EWG13) from Eurodefense Portugal.
She was a visiting professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the University of Beira Interior, at the Department of Sociology of the University of Évora, at the Department of Tourism of the Lusófona University of Humanities and Technology and at the Higher School of Agriculture of Coimbra. She collaborates with the Air Force Academy, the National Defense Institute (IDN) and the Military University Institute (IUM).
Her research interests include International Relations and Sociology, with an emphasis on African development, particularly in Small Island Developing States, an area in which she specialized during her Masters (African Studies, 1998), PhD (African Studies, 2005, with an FCT scholarship) and Post-Doctorate (at the Center 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 framed by international cooperation in conjunction with socio-environmental issues, including international agreements on the environment, impacts of climate change and their responses, local intervention in environmental preservation, including environmental education programs, and conservation of endangered species promoted by international partnerships.
In parallel with his academic activity, he has carried out consultancy work in the evaluation of 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 International Labour Organization, STEP-Portugal Project) and by Portuguese, Guinean and São Toméan Civil Society Organizations (NGDOs), with community funding, having been part of a team in a training project framed by bilateral cooperation (Ministry of Labor).