Adjunct Professor at the School of Technology and Management at the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. She was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Law at Universidade Portucalense (UPT), with experience in curricular units in the field of European Union Law, History of Political and Social Ideas, Public International Law, Constitutional Law, Political Science and others in the field of Law Public that took place in Bachelor's and Master's courses. PhD in Human Rights from the University of Salamanca (Programa Pasado y Presente de los Derechos Humanos) in her thesis she analyzed vulnerable populations in Portugal with a focus on Human Rights and a gender perspective. She used quantitative and qualitative methodology, including interviews with immigrants. She has additional training in Information Sciences. Master's degree in European Union Studies from the University of Salamanca, which involved legal, political and economic modules. Currently, he has been awarded, through a highly competitive international competition, the coordination of the Jean Monnet Module The European Union as a global player for Democracy and Fundamental Rights, a teaching and research project financed by the European Commission (2018 to 2021). In 2018 she was appointed to the Management Committee of the EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities: Perceptions, Contestation, Communication and Relations action funded by COST - European Cooperation in Science & Technology, Europe's oldest intergovernmental framework for cooperation in science and technology . In this project, she is a researcher who is part of 3 Working Groups, namely Perceptions, Contestation and Relations. She was Associate Coordinator of the international research group ¿Dimensions of Human Rights¿ of the Portucalense Juridical Institute, evaluated as ¿good¿ by the Foundation for Science and Technology from 2013 to 2019. She was Coordinator of the Master's in Law - legal-political specialization at the Portucalense University of 2014 to 2019. Daniela Serra Castilhos investigates, essentially, Gender, Human Rights, European Union and Democracy. On these topics, she has published several scientific articles, parts of collective works, in addition to frequently presenting scientific and pedagogical communications on these subjects, in Portugal and abroad. She has also organized several scientific events, supervises Master's dissertations and PhD theses and has participated in different research projects. She participated in 13 master's academic exam juries and 12 doctoral juries.