2013-01-01 to 2014-08-31 - Newton International Fellow at the University of Dundee. Funded by the British Academy and the Royal Society.

2012-09-01 to 2012-12-31 - Visiting Fellow na School of Government, University of Strathclyde.

2011-04-01 to 2011-10-31 - Visiting Fellow no Departamento de Direito do Instituto Universitário Europeu, Florença.

2011-04-01 - Pós doutoranda no Centro de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra.

2010-04-01 to 2011-03-31 - Investigadora no Instituto de Estudos de Integração Europeia, Academia das Ciências de Viena, Austria.

2009-03-01 to 2010-04-30 - Assistente de investigação no Departamento de Ciências Sociais e Politicas, Instituto Universitário Europeu, Florença.

2008-03-01 to 2008-06-30 - Visiting fellow no Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), no Departamento de Justiça e Assuntos Internos, em Bruxelas.

2007-03-01 to 2007-07-31 - Estágio na Comissão Europeia, DG Liberdade, Segurança e Justiça.

2005-01-02 to 2005-07-31 - Investigadora do Instituto da Defesa Nacional, Ministério da Defesa Nacional.

2004-03-01 to 2004-12-31 - Estágio no Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros, Direcção de Serviços Bilaterais, Europa.

01-09-20 - Professora Auxiliar em Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais, Aston University, Reino Unido

Other Activities

2015-11-03 to 2015-11-07 - Teaching in Aston's Carbon Week on the consequences of climate change for migratory movements

2015-10-01 to 2016-01-07 - Trained the Aston EuroSim Team to participation in EuroSim 2016 at the University of Antwerp

2014-09-11 to 2014-09-12 - Co- organizer of Workshop on EU Cyber security, CES, Lisbon.

2014-09-01 to 2014-09-04 - Section organizer, ECPR Annual Conference in Glasgow. The International Security Section contains 10 panels, with 65 participants.

2014-07-28 to 2014-08-2 - Lectured in Summer School at the University of Catania, Italy. The Summer School was on organized Crime in Europe.

2014-07-15 to 2014-07-25 - Lectured in Summer School at University of La Salle, Bogotá. The topic was the role of organized crime in contexts of conflict resolution.

2014-07-01 to 2014-07-05 - Lectured in Summe School at the University of Dundee, Scotland. The Summer school was on European Internal Security.

2014-06-15 to 2014-06-17 - Co- organiser of the II Conference on European internal security, at the University of Dundee. Conference financed by the Life Long Learning Programme of the European Commission.

2014-06-01 to 2014-06-08 - Co- organiser of the I Summer School on European Internal Security, at the University of Dundee. Event financed by the Life Long Learning Programme of the European Commission

2014-04-01 to 2014-04-05 - Co- organizer of the University of Dundee's European Studies Trip to Brussels.

2014-01-04 to 2014-01-07 - Member of Staff responsible for the University of Dundee's participation in EuroSim, the world's largest EU negotiation simulation

2013-09-04 to 2013-09-07 - Section organizer, ECPR Annual Conference in Bordeaux. The Transnational Organised Crime Section contains 9 panels, with 45 papers.

2013-06-01 to 2013-06-01 - Creator of the annual ECPR Award for Best Paper on Organised Crime, to be announced in Sept. 2013.

2013-01-01 - Editora Assistente, European Journal for Internal Security.

2012-09-01 to 2012-09-01 - Discussant for the conference 'L'européanisation à la croisée des disciplines et de nouveaux enjeux', Universités de St. Louis, Brussels.

2012-07-02 to 2012-07-02 - Chair and discussant in panels at the International Political Science Association Bi- annual conference, Madrid.

2011-03-09 to 2011-03-10 - Discussant no workshop 'Cross- border crime in the EU: theory, practice and political implications', Universidade da Catania, Italia.

2010-06-28 to 2010-07-09 - Second Summer School of the Standing Group on Organized Crime, European Consortium for Political Science, University of Ghent.

2009-06-30 to 2009-07-12 - First Summer School of the Standing Group on Organized Crime, European Consortium for Political Science, University of Catania

2009-05-08 to 2009-05-09 - Chair in the conference "Do Institutions Evolve?", organized by Sven Steinmo at the European University Institute.

2008-06-15 to 2008-06-30 - Summer school on Theories of International Relations with Professor Steven Walt, at the IBEI, in Barcelona.

2008-04-12 to 2008-04-12 - Participation in the organization of a Challenge PhD Training School on Visas, Borders and Migrations, Center for European Policy Studies, Brussels.

2007-09-01 - Co- editora da 'Standing Group on Organized crime's Newsletter, European Consortium for Political Science (ECPR)

2006-11-06 to 2006-11-12 - Winter school on Critical Security Studies, at the University of Copenhagen, with Professor Ole Waever.

2006-07-01 to 2006-07-15 - Summer school on Security with Professor John Mearsheimer, at the IBEI, in Barcelona.