Associate Professor with Aggregation in the Department of Political Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University Lisbon, and Guest Professor at NOVA Information Management School since 2003. She is also a Guest Professor at the General Gutiérrez Mellado Institute for Research on Peace, Security, and Defense, Ministry of National Defense, and UNED-Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, since January 2014. She has been a National Defense Auditor since 2009. She is a member of the IPRI-NOVA Directorate and coordinates the Foresight and Strategic Planning line. She is responsible for and participates in national and international projects related to the intersection of population growth, migration, resources, and development in contexts of international insecurity and a prospective outlook. Currently, she leads the PPEACE project - Public Policies and Reception of Foreign Citizens (FAMI - Fund for Asylum, Migration, and Integration, Ministry of Internal Affairs) and is part of the Portugal Foresight 2030 Project team (Fórum Futuro, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation). She coordinates three Postgraduate Programs in the field of Globalization Studies, Security, Information, and Diplomacy, in partnership with the Portuguese Republic's Information Services, the Military University Institute, the National Defense Institute, and the Diplomatic Institute (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). She is responsible for and participates in national and international projects. She is the author or co-author of 25 books, over a hundred articles, and book chapters in the areas of foresight analysis, planning, demography, aging and health, urban history, and security studies.