Academic and professional activities

2022-01-30 to 2024-12 - Co-coordinator of the College of Global Studies at CES, with Irina Velicu and Jorge Figueira. Organization of Keynote Lectures and Workshops where researchers and students reflect together on a topic developed by the invited speaker related to the contemporary world and its history.

2020-12-30 to 2026-12-29 - Portuguese Science and Technology Agency (FCT) Fellow (CEECIND/00620/2018), working in a research project on "Transnational histories of solidarity in the south - researching 'other' knowledges and struggles for rights across the Indian ocean".

2019-06-01 to 2021-05-31 - Marie Sklodowska-Curie/Widening fellow working on the research project EDULIBERA "Education as an instrument for liberation in Mozambique and Timor-Leste: histories of solidarity and contemporary reflections", funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme [H2020- MSCA-WF GA no. 867413]

2018-02-01 - Posdoctoral researcher - 'BLEND - Desire, Miscegenation and Violence: the now and then of the Portuguese Colonial War' (Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique), funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation (FCT).

2016-12-01 to 2018-01-31 - Postdoctoral researcher on Legal Pluralism in Timor-Leste, in the project 'Diagnostic Study on the Justice System of Timor-Leste - Community Justices', co-coordinated by CES and Comissão para a Reforma Legislativa e do Setor da Justiça and sponsored by the Government of Timor-Leste.

Other Activities

2023-10-30 to 2024-06-30 - Co-coordinator, with Andréia Cordeiro Mecca and Miriã Martins de Brito, of "CES Goes to School" sessions in Portuguese secondary schools: "Workshop on Arts and intercultural and ethno-racial dialogues"

2022-12-01 to 2024-03-31 - Development of a Syllabus and Lecturers' Manual for higher education in Timor-Leste, and conducting Teachers' training in the area of peace, conflict transformation, human rights and history of Timor-Leste, in collaboration with a team from the public memory institute CNC and GIZ- SAUP (Southeast Asian University Partnership for Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation)

2021-08 to 2024-08 - Membro da Direção da Associação Iberoamericana de Estudos do Sudeste Asiático (AIA-SEAS)

2021-04-08 - Facilitadora convidada da Tertúlia| Roda de Saberes III - Desafios metodológicos na pandemia, online, organizada por Rita Campos, Patrícia Silva e Ana Teixeira de Melo, Centro de Estudos Sociais

2021-01-15 to 2021-03-05 - Organizadora (com Gaudêncio Sousa, David Webster e Nick Kettle) do Concurso público de Fotografia de Monumentos, Memoriais e Graffiti, promovido pelo Centro Nacional Chega! de Timor-Leste

2017-10-01 to 2019-05-31 - Co-coordinator and facilitator of outreach activities in the "CES goes to school" program, with secondary school students in Portugal which presented "Histories on the 'other side' of the history", i.e., histories told from the point of view of people of different generations in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and Timor-Leste

2017-08-01 to 2026-08-01 - International Advisory Council Member (Third Term), National Chega! Centre (CNC), From Memory to Hope, Timor-Leste