Full professor of Political Science at the Fernando Pessoa University since 2010, with a PhD in History and also a PhD in Political Science. I began my scientific research in 1988 and my academic career in 1991. My master's thesis is entitled: The Bureaucracy of the "Eloquente" (1433-1439). The texts, the norms, the people (1991) and my doctoral thesis: "Teemos por bem e mandamos". The Royal Bureaucracy and his offices in mid-1400, 2 vols., Edições Patrimonia, 1998, were published by an editor specialising in theses. These scientific works are based on the design and structuring of extensive prosopographical databases, a model for other PhD databases. My doctoral thesis in Political Science - The Council of State in the Ancien Régime and Liberalism. Portugal, Spain and France - was also published by a national publisher. My original scientific research has been the model for thesis work at international and national level, e.g. Cañas Gálvez, F. de P., La Burocracia Regia durante el Reinado de Juan II de Castilla: estudio prosopográfico e itinerario. PhD thesis, Universidad Complutense Madrid, 2005 and more than a dozen master's dissertations at Porto University. I have carried out extensive research on political power, political elites, political thought, political institutions, public governance bodies and bureaucracy, comparative political studies, human rights and Information Science, in the context of which I have published dozens of articles in scientific journals and ten books. I participated as a guest researcher in competitive and international projects, e.g. European Science Foundation - "Cuius Regio. An analysis of the cohesive and disruptive forces destining the attachment of groups of persons to and the cohesion within regions as a historical phenomenon" (CURE) (2009-2014), Foundation for Science and Technology and Casa de Velásquez - "Cours et sociétés curiales en péninsule Ibérique XIVe-XVIe siècle" (2012-2015) - www.casadevelazquez.org/pt/investigacao. I have been a guest speaker at international conferences in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, England, Italy and France as part of various international projects. I coordinate the Political and Humanitarian Studies research group at the Centre for Population, Economy and Society Studies - CEPESE, and I'm a research member of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations at NOVA University Lisbon. I have extensive experience in coordinating undergraduate and postgraduate studies (since 2000). Teaching experience: Lecturer in Theory of State and Administration, Contemporary Political Systems, Political History and International Relations, and seminars in Contemporary Comparative Politics and Planning and presentation of PhD projects in the 3rd cycle of Political and Humanitarian Studies. Keynote speaker in conferences and international projects at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), Complutense University of Madrid, New University of Lisbon, University of Zaragoza, Sorbonne University, University of Limoges, among others. My current research interests include Comparative Politics, Political Theory, Political Challenges, Public Administration and Bureaucracy, Political Systems, Human Rights (Portuguese-speaking community) and knowledge management. Currently, I am supervising several doctoral programes in the area of political science, v.g. politics and governance, comparative politics, political theory, public policies, conceptions and theoretical foundations of sustainable development policies. I have been coordinating the PhD in Political and Humanitarian Studies - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences / Fernando Pessoa University since 2019. Scientific coordinator and author of several entries in the Dictionary of Political Science and International Relations, Coimbra: Almedina, 2022. Scientific committee and peer reviewer for the following Scopus-indexed journals: Social Sciences, Sustainability, Administrative Sciences, Biblos.