I am an Assistant Professor at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute and a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra.I obtained a PhD in African Studies at the Lisbon University Institute with a thesis entitled The Plateau of Trials: Modern Ethnicity in Angola, attended a MSc in Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a BA in International Relations at the University of Minho. I authored several articles on issues of citizenship, memory, war, ethnicity and nationalism, and a recent book titled Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola (Routledge, 2021). My research interests are related to issues of colonialism and post-colonialism, citizenship, nationalism and ethnicity in circumstances of state and nation formation, particularly in countries that experienced liberation wars and other civil conflicts.