PhD in Law from the University of Saarland (Germany) and Postgraduate in European Integration, Europa Institut, University of Saarland (Germany) and Bachelor of Laws from the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra; Associate Professor at the Department of Law of the Autonomous University of Lisbon; Visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law of the NOVA University of Lisbon; Integrated Researcher at Ratio Legis and Collaborating Researcher at OBSERVARE (Autonomous University of Lisbon); National member of the Odysseus Network, an academic network of European legal studies in the area of ​​asylum and immigration, coordinated by the Free University of Brussels (since 1999); Member of the Assembly of the Republic (since 2017): VP of the OS Parliamentary Group; Full member of the Committee on European Affairs; Full member of the Committee on Transparency and the Statute for Members; Full member of the Parliamentary Delegation to the IPU (Inter-Parliamentary Union); Former Minister of Internal Administration of the 21st Constitutional Government (2015-2017); Associate Professor at the Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security (suspended since 2015); Member of the Scientific Council of the Journal of Criminal Investigation and Criminal and Forensic Sciences; Director of the Department of Law of the Autonomous University of Lisbon, chairing its Scientific Committee and the School Council (2012 to 2015); Member of the Scientific Council of UAL (2012-2015); She was a CEDIS Research Fellow; She was a Visiting Professor on the Postgraduate Course in Criminal Investigation and Evidence Law (FDL), the Master’s Degree in Migration (ISCTE) and the Postgraduate Course in European Immigration and Asylum Law at the Free University of Brussels; She was part of the panel of evaluators of scientific research projects in the fields of social sciences and humanities funded by the 7th EU Framework Programme for scientific research and by Horizon 2020; She was an expert for the Committee of the Regions of the European Union and the ICMPD; She coordinated the Justice and Home Affairs unit of the Permanent Representation of Portugal to the European Union (2006-2012); During the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (1st half of 2007) she chaired the Strategic Committee on Immigration, Borders and Asylum; She was an advisor to the Minister of State and Internal Administration (2005-2006) and to the Minister of Internal Administration (2000 to 2002); She is the author of a vast bibliography on the area of ​​freedom, security and justice of the EU, immigration law and asylum law, national and international nationality law; She has over 150 communications at colloquia, conferences, seminars and other scientific events, in Portugal and abroad.