Doutorada em Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais pela Sciences Po (Paris), com Agregação nesse ramo de conhecimento. Prémio Jacques Delors 2005 pela sua investigação sobre a União Europeia e a Rússia. Diretora do Mestrado em Relações Internacionais.
Colaboração com a Embaixada de Portugal na Rússia, Moscovo, durante as Presidências Portuguesas da UE de 2007 e 2021; formação a diplomatas dos países do Golfo Pérsico em Riyadh, 2009, e a diplomatas portugueses, desde 2016; mesa-redonda diplomática em Genebra, 2010; nomeada pelo Ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros para o júri de acesso à carreira diplomática, 2015; responsável pela criação e coordenação do Curso de Acesso à Carreira Diplomática, UminhoExec, desde 2016; membro da Direção da Associação Portuguesa de Ciência Política (APCP).
Auditora do Curso de Defesa Nacional do IDN (2003-2004). Docente convidada no âmbito de pós-graduações: Universidade Livre de Bruxelas (ULB), Instituto Estatal de Moscovo Universidade de Relações Internacionais (MGIMO), Universidade de Economia de Izmir (Turquia), Universidade de Ljubljana (Eslovénia), Jagiellonian University (Polónia), Universidade da Lapónia (Finlândia) e Universidade de Tartu (Estónia). Investigadora convidada do Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Bruxelas (2007-2009).
Institutional Inertia and Change: Explaining the Czech and Portuguese Engagement in European Defence Market Integration
JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
Publication date: 2023
Type of publication: Journal Article
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad multilateralization
International Politics
Publication date: 2023
Type of publication: Journal Article
Portugal in the nuclear realm: a case of broad ‘multilateralization’
International Politics
Publication date: 2023
Type of publication: Journal Article
“Estonisation” and its limits: Threat perceptions and integration in the EU and NATO
Small States and Security in Europe
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Book Chapter
The security dilemma in Russia’s new national security strategy: between militarism and being a geographical pivot
JANUS NET e-journal of International Relation
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
Kaliningrad and the Lithuanian geopolitical code
Sovremennaja Evropa
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
URL: http://www.sov-europe.ru/2022-1/kaliningrad-and-the-lithuanian-geopolitical-code.html
“Estonisation” and its limits Threat perceptions and integration in the EU and NATO
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Book Chapter
KALININGRAD AND THE LITHUANIAN “GEOPOLITICAL CODE”
Contemporary Europe – Sovremennaya Evropa
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
Intra-European Union dynamics The interplay of divergences and convergences
Routledge Handbook of Eu-russia Relations
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
The security dilemma in Russia’s new national security strategy: between militarism and being a geographical pivot
JANUS NET e-Journal of International Relation
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
Kaliningrad and the Lithuanian “geopolitical code”
Sovremennaja Evropa
Publication date: 2022
Type of publication: Journal Article
URL: http://www.sov-europe.ru/2022-1/kaliningrad-and-the-lithuanian-geopolitical-code.html
Intra-European Union Dynamics: The Interplay of Divergences and Convergences Sandra Fernandes
The Routledge Handbook of EU-Russia Relations Structures, Actors, Issues
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Book Chapter
New Russian Geopolitics: Reviving Past Perceptions and Ambitions
Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century: Territories, Identities, and Foreign Policies
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Book Chapter
Uma forte presença no mundo: a diplomacia portuguesa e a Rússia
Negócios Estrangeiros
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Journal Article
Rússia: Estratégia de Segurança Nacional
Documentos Estratégicos de Segurança e Defesa
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Book Chapter
URL: https://www.idn.gov.pt/pt/publicacoes/idncadernos/Documents/2021/IDN_Cadernos_44.pdf
INTERPOL
Publication date: 2021
Type of publication: Dictionary Entry
Facing China in Eurasia: The Russian perspective
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Book Chapter
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85088436808&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Facing China in Eurasia: The Russian Perspective
The Belt and Road Initiative
Publication date: 2020
Type of publication: Journal Article
Studying European margins in the illiberal turn: a spacio-normative approach
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Publication date: 2019
Type of publication: Journal Article
Estonia and Portugal in Europe: escaping peripherality, capitalizing on marginality
Journal of Contemporary European Studies
Publication date: 2019
Type of publication: Journal Article
(Re)securitisation in Europe: the Baltic States and Russia
Debater a Europa
Publication date: 2018
Type of publication: Journal Article
The European Union and Russia during the two waves of enlargement: New political and implementation rationales on old issues
Law in Eastern Europe, 67, pp. 277–292
Publication date: 2018
Type of publication: Journal Article
The European Union and Russia during the Two Waves of Enlargement: New Political and Implementation Rationales on Old Issues
Reviewing European Union Accession
Publication date: 2017
Type of publication: Book Chapter
EU-Russia relations and norms diffusion: the role of non-state actors
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 2016
Type of publication: Book Chapter
The 2007 portuguese Presidency of the European Union and Russia
Debater a Europa
Publication date: 2016
Type of publication: Journal Article
European security architecture: Fading or adapting?
Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia
Publication date: 2016
Type of publication: Book Chapter
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84978354589&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Visa liberalization processes in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood: understanding policy outcomes
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Publication date: 2016
Type of publication: Journal Article
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84999779348&partnerID=MN8TOARS
Visa liberalization processes in the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood: understanding policy outcomes
Cambridge Review of International Affairs
Publication date: 2016
Type of publication: Journal Article
URL: http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84999779348&partnerID=MN8TOARS
EU-Russia Relations and Norm Diffusion: The Role of Non-state Actors
Security in Shared Neighbourhoods – Foreign Policy of Russia, Turkey, and the EU
Publication date: 2016
Type of publication: Book Chapter
European Security Architecture: Fading or Adapting?
Power, Politics and Confrontation in Eurasia: Foreign Policy in a Contested Region
Publication date: 2015
Type of publication: Journal Article