Catarina P. Silva is a PhD student of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Minho (Braga, Portugal) and a collaborative member of Research Center in Political Science (CICP) from University of Minho. Since 2017, she holds a fellowship from Foundation for Science and Technology – FCT (Lisbon, Portugal) with the research project “O Euroceticismo no Parlamento Europeu pós-2008: Atores e Implicações”.