Research Interests
My main research interests lie on the intersection between technological developments, security practices, and societal change. In 2022 / 2023 I work on different projects on emerging security technologies. These include RegulAir (a large, multi-annual research project on the integration of drones in the civilian airspace, that I lead), TRANSCEND (a Horizon Europe project dealing with societal impacts of EU security research, where I am WP leader), and Disruptive Security Technologies: Challenges to Norway’s Total Defence Concept (dealing with with how new technologies generate vulnerabilities and pose challenges to the total defence concept, a project that I lead).
I am interested in several issues within the wider security studies agenda, and I've researched, taught and published on EU's security and defence policies, including counter-terrorism, EU-Israel-Palestine relations, and the politics of security and defence research and innovation.
Background
I am a senior researcher at PRIO, where I am coordinator of the Security Research Group and a member of the Law & Ethics Research Group, the PRIO Middle East Centre, and the PRIO Migration Centre.
Professional background:
- 2017-19: Postdoctoral Fellow, Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University
- 2017: Guest researcher, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo
- 2013-2016: Postdoc / Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University
- 2013-14: External Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark
- 2010-14: Researcher, University of Minho, Project Strategic Partnerships in EU's Foreign Policy
- 2011: Visiting Fellow, European University Institute, Florence
- 2010: Visiting Fellow, Egmont Institute, Brussels
- 2008: Political Analyst, Delegation of the European Commission in Israel.
- 2008: EuroMeSCo Exchange Researcher, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. Research Project Undocumented Migrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Israel
- 2006-08: Researcher, Institute for Strategic and international Studies (IEEI), Lisbon
Education
- 2014: PhD in Political Science, University of Minho, Portugal.
- 2008: MA in European Studies, University of Minho, Portugal
- 2003: Licenciatura (5 year graduation) in Law, Portuguese Catholic University.
Languages
- Fluent: Portuguese (mother tongue), English, Spanish
- Intermediate: Norwegian, Italian
- Basic: Danish, French
Events
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