I am an Integrated Researcher at the Center of 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. My academic background is profoundly interdisciplinary, including research experience in several fields of social sciences and humanities, with emphasis on identity and conflict studies. As a historian and political scientist, I am interested in understanding how dynamics of identity, power and otherness shape protracted social conflicts in both domestic and International levels and how these are related with the maintenance and perpetuation of conflict through time. I hold a PhD in International Relations - International Politics and Conflict Resolution (2020) from the Centre for Social Studies and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra. My thesis sought to explain through a historically-based account the role played by the Israeli-Palestinian protracted peace process to the very protractedness of the conflict, by analysing the representations of the 'other' that have emerged and developed within the context of long-term peace negotiations and their impact to deepening cultural violence, thus allowing for and legitimating an increase in the levels of structural and direct forms of violence in this conflict. Its main contribution is the development of a theoretical and analytical framework, grounded on the concepts of dehumanisation and peace-less reconciliation, that allows for the assessment of the dimensions that create what I call the Cycle of Protractedness. I was awarded a four-years Doctoral Grant, co-funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and by European funds, through the program QREN-POCH, for developing this thesis. More recently, I have engaged with the study of other scenarios of social conflicts in which the conflict of identities plays a central role, such as the case of Brazil and the European Union integration process. Since the completion of my PhD, I have collaborated with several research and action projects, as well as written collaborative and transnational grant proposals, in the fields of International Relations, Sociology, Social Psychology and Social and Economic History. My research interests include critical perspectives on identity building, peace, violence(s) and conflict, particularly in the European context, as well as interpretative research, post-positivism and qualitative methodology.