My doctoral thesis (European University Institute, 2014), currently under revision for publication, focused on how the integration of the Portuguese empire into the Catholic Monarchy (1580-1640) impacted on its government. The EUI encouraged approaches such as global history and connected histories, and my research benefited from this academic environment. Albeit focused on the case of Hormuz and the regional context of the Persian Gulf, I sought comparisons and connections with other territories in America and Asia. My thesis was based on research carried out in archives in Portugal, Spain, India, and Brazil, with funding from the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, the EUI, and Fundação Oriente. I published results of this research in English, Portuguese, and Spanish (e.g. Borges 2014a, 2014b). Since one of the conclusions of my dissertation was that the integration of Portugal into the Catholic Monarchy had a much greater impact on the Portuguese territories in Asia than commonly admitted, I made this the focus of my first postdoctoral project, funded by FCT (2015-2016). This was when I realized the degree of influence of the Castilian Council of State on the government of the Portuguese colonial territories, and when I started an exhaustive collection of this documentation in the archives of Simancas, Spain (Borges 2015). I was then looking at both empires in a fully-integrated perspective, and I gradually sought new research questions. I was offered a research fellowship by the John Carter Brown Library (Brown University, USA) in 2016, where I studied the differences between the Spanish and the Portuguese black legend discourses in the Americas and in Asia, and was led to the analysis of violence in the making of the Iberian empires. This was the occasion to bridge my postdoctoral research on the Portuguese empire in Asia with the Marie Curie individual fellowship that I was awarded with by the European Commission (2016-2018), where I sought to relate the history of the Iberian empires with the history of human rights, observing how the government of this integrated Iberian empire dealt with indigenous rights, slavery, religious differences and violence in different colonial spaces across the globe (Borges 2017, 2018). Adding to this research path and outputs, my CV also shows that I have published 8 articles in peer-reviewed journals (in Portuguese, English and Spanish), among other relevant, peer-reviewed, publications, presented more than 20 papers in conferences worldwide, and organized a number of academic events in the last 5 years. Moreover, my national and international recognition is proven by my election to the Board of Directors of my Research Centre, CIDEHUS - Interdisciplinary Center for History, Cultures and Societies/University of Évora, as Coordinator of one of its Research Groups, "Societal Changes"; the Executive Committee of the main history association in Portugal (APHES); and the invitation to give seminars in Portugal, Spain, France, Argentina and Brazil; to be referee in 5 international journals; to the selection committee of 3 research positions; to the committee of 1 master and 1 doctoral dissertation. All this with only 5 years of postdoctoral experience.