Helena Lopes completed her Agregação in economics in 2002 at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and her PhD in Economics in 1994 at Université Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL where she coordinates the Master on Human Resources Development Policies and is member of the Scientific Council Committee and the DINAMIA’CET research unit’s Scientific Committee. In the last 15 years, she published 19 articles in indexed international journals (in the fields of political economy and labour and industrial relations) and 8 chapters in international books. She directed about 60 master theses and 6 PhD. She was Principal Researcher of 7 multidisciplinary research projects, out of which 4 international, and she participated in another 5 international projects. Among these projects, the coordination of a project (NORMEC) funded by the 5th EU-Framework Program stands out, as well as the participation in projects funded by the 4th, 6th and 7th EU-Framework Programs. Her current research interests are in the fields of labour economics, quality of work, theory and governance of the firm, ethics and economics. The Ciência Vitae curriculum identified the following as the most frequent key terms in her publications: Employment Relationship; Civic participation; Cooperation; European comparisons; Moral goods; Relational goods; Working conditions; Welfare regimes; Work autonomy; Work organization; Employment protection legislation; Fixed-term contract; Perverse effects of agency theory.