Graduated in International Relations from the University of Minho. Master in Sociology from the University of Coimbra. PhD in Sociology from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
She is an Associate Professor at the University of Minho (institutional affiliation), teaching in the Department of Political Science at the School of Economics and Management.
Throughout his academic career he has taught in the areas of Political Science, International Relations and Political Sociology. As a researcher, she is an integrated researcher at the Center for Research in Political Science (institutional affiliation), placing her work at the intersection between Politics and Sociology, with emphasis on Citizenship and Democracy.
He has written about the political inclusion of immigrants in Portugal, about the structures of political opportunities and forms of political expression of immigrants and citizens of migrant origin.
She is the author and editor of books, book chapters, reports and scientific articles, and is a member of several international and national organizations in the field of Sociology and Political Science.
Between 2019 and 2024 she was a member of the European Parliament for the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.
More recently, she has directed her academic research to critical feminism and gender citizenship, the decline of liberal democracies and the rise of autocratic populisms, and the political consequences of the abandonment of rural geographies.

Nenad Stekić has been working at the Institute of International Politics and Economics since July 2018, and as of January 2020 within the Regional Centre “Belt and Road”. His academic interests include the People’s Republic of China’s security strategy, regional security dynamics of Southeast Asia, and the effects of interstate armed conflicts on contemporary defence arrangements and political regimes.

He obtained the PhD title from the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Security Studies, where he defended his dissertation “Military Interventions and Post-Conflict State Building in the Unipolar Era: The Cases of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq”. He worked as a teaching aide in the courses of International Relations and Political System throughout his MA studies at the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Security Studies. As of 2021 he serves as an external consultant for the Varieties of Democracy Institute (University of Gothenburg), where he evaluates the quality of political regimes for the V-Dem Data project.

He authored the monograph “A Hesitant Hegemon: Layers of China’s Contemporary Security Policy”, published by the IIPE. In addition, Nenad is the co-editor of several thematic proceedings and has authored over thirty scientific articles and book reviews in academic journals. He has presented the results of his research within several national and international academic conferences, in addition to numerous seminars and study trainings which he attended.

Within the IIPE’s Regional Centre “Belt and Road” he is engaged in organising annual international academic conference under the format “Dialogues on China”.

As of January 2023, he got appointed as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the journal “The Review of International Affairs” – RIA, and as of June 2024, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of this journal.

Dr. Stekić appears regularly in the global media outlets (CGTN, Xinhua, SCMP, AlJazeera…) in a capacity of analyst of Chinese foreign policy and on Sino-Serbian relations.
He is fluent in English and is actively learning Chinese language.

Dr. Goran Ilik is a full professor and Vice-Rector for Science at the University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bitola (North Macedonia). From 2012 to 2016, he served as a Senator in the Senate of the University St. Kliment Ohridski in Bitola, and from 2013 to 2017, he held the position of Vice-Dean for Science and International Cooperation at the Faculty of Law - Kicevo. In 2017, Prof. Dr. sc Goran Ilik was elected Dean of the Faculty of Law - Kicevo for the first time, while on January 15, 2021, he was re-elected as Dean of the Faculty of Law - Kicevo for the second time. The academic background includes BA in Law, MA in Political Science, and PhD in Political Science. The publication list contains papers, chapters, and monographs emphasizing the role of the European Union in international relations, the institutional architecture of its foreign policy, the EU's constitutional law and constitutionalism, the EU's axiological performances, and its political power. Also, many papers treat the EU's role in the new international context concerning the contemporary challenges of the liberal world order and the EU’s role and place in it. He is the author of the books: “Europe at the Crossroads: The Treaty of Lisbon as a Basis of European Union International Identity”, “EUtopia: The International Political Power of the EU in the Process of Ideeologization of the Post-American World”, and “International Relations and the European Union: Values before Power”. Prof. Dr. sc. Goran Ilik is a lecturer/trainer at the State Academy of Judges and Public Prosecutors “Pavel Shatev” – Skopje (North Macedonia). Also, Prof. Dr. sc. Goran Ilik is co-founder of the Institute for Research and European Studies – Bitola and Editor-in-Chief of the international academic journals "Journal of Liberty and International Affairs" (www.e-jlia.com) and "Journal of Legal and Political Education" (www.iies.mk/jlpe). Since October 2019, Prof. Dr. sc. Goran Ilik has been engaged as an expert in the project ANETREC, which is focused on academic cooperation and post-conflict reconciliation in the Western Balkans region. He is a member of ISCOMET – Institute for Ethnic and Regional Studies (Maribor, Slovenia). He also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the “Mediterranea” International Centre for Human Rights Research in Italy (2020-2021). In August 2021, Prof. Dr. sc. Ilik became a coordinator of the sub-thematic area “International Public Law” at the post-doctoral program in "New Technologies and Law", organized by the “Mediterranea” International Centre for Human Rights Research at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria (Italy). Prof. Dr. sc. Goran Ilik has been engaged as an expert by the Institute for Global Analytics in Sofia (Bulgaria), which is an independent, nonpartisan, and nonprofit organization. Furthermore, Prof. Dr. sc. Goran Ilik has been appointed as an expert for the "Cross-Border Complex Floods and Forest Fires: Prevention and Management - SOLVE" project within the framework of the Interreg IPA CBC "Greece and North Macedonia" program 2014-2023. Additionally, he brings extensive experience from his involvement in international projects and those supported by the European Union.

Prof. dr. Zlatan Bajramović is born in 1977 in Split (Republic of Croatia). He graduated on the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo (Department of Defense and Security) in 2001. In 2003. he completed the second cycle of studies at the University of Hamburg, FR Germany, and in 2009. completed his postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Sarajevo. Doctoral dissertation on “Human Resources Management in Security Sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina” at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Sarajevo was successfully defended in 2014.

He is employee at the Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Security and Peace Studies since 2005. Position of associate professor has been accomplished in May 2019, and is engaged in the following subjects: Management in Security Systems, Planning in the security sector, Civil protection, Leadership in the field of security and defense, and Protection and Rescue. Since 2024./2025. is also engaged at the Faculty of Criminal Justice, Criminology and Security Studies on subject Crisis Management

Postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Political Science at USP. PhD in Political Science from UFSCAR, with a sandwich period at the University of Bristol (UK), Master in Social Sciences from UNIFESP and a degree in Sociology and Politics from FESPSP. I currently work as a professor of political theory at the Department of International Relations at USJT and am a member of the research team at the Laboratory of Politics and Government (FCLAR - UNESP), the research group Thought and Politics in Brazil (DCP - USP) and the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). I have dedicated myself to researching topics related to political theory such as political thought and populism, focusing on the theoretical and conceptual formulations of authors such as Francisco Weffort, Ernesto Laclau, Cas Mudde and Pierre Rosanvallon.