Patrícia Calca (PhD, University of Lisbon-ICS, 2015) is an Integrated Researcher at CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon. In the past she was a visiting scholar at New York University (US), the University of Mannheim (Germany), the University of Barcelona (Spain) and the University of Konstanz (Germany). Until August of 2020, she was a Post-Doctoral Fellow funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology with a double affiliation CIES-ISCTE / University of Mannheim. Previously, she was an Associate Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at New University of Lisbon and worked in several institutions like the Technical University of Kaiserslautern, the University of Mannheim, the Open University, the Lisbon University Institute, ISCTE (CIES), and the University of Évora (CISA-AS). Her forthcoming book entitled "Executive-Legislative Relations in Parliamentary Systems: Policymaking and Legislative Processes", will be published this year by Palgrave Macmilian. In the last years, she also published and edited a volume with Lexington Books - Rowman & Littlefield, and is a solo author of another book published in Portugal. She published 10 chapters in recognized publishers as Oxford University Press, Lexington Books, Almedina and Principia. She published 7 papers with blind review, 4 of them with indexation. She is still the author of 7 encyclopedia entries, 5 book reviews and published more than 10 project reports. She has participated in the codification of 5 public data-sets. She has been the a researcher in more than half a dozen of funded projects, being that at the moment she is the main responsible for the personal project "The Micro Foundations of Legislative Behavior in European Democracies: Evidence from Parliamentary Committees", funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation. Calca writes regularly for media, as she has a monthly opinion column in a newspaper. She was 16 times an invited guest, amongst them to the London School of Economics, Central European University, Konstanz University, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Évora University and Beira Interior University. She taught at four universities, at the undergraduate and graduate level (in Portugal and in Germany). She is the solo responsible for more than 10 courses in several areas of political science. At the moment she is an Associate Editor of "SN Social Sciences". She has been a reviewer for several outlets as "American Journal of Political Science", "Análise Social", "Crime, Law and Social Change", "Cuestiones de Género: De La Igualdad y la Diferencia", "European Political Science", "European Political Science Review", "Party Politics", "Portuguese Journal of Political Science", "Revista Espacio Político", "West European Politics". Calca presented in more than 30 academic scientific meetings (e.g., APSA, MPSA, EPSA, ECPR, IPSA); organized 10 panels and scientific meetings; was co-responsible for one ECPR Section; have been more than 10 times invited to act as discussant in international conferences, as well as, she has been more than 10 times chair of panels in international conferences.