Ana Mónica Fonseca is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Iscte and, since 2022, director of the Center for International Studies at Iscte. Since January 2022, she has been the Director of the Master’s in Modern and Contemporary History and, between September 2019 and September 2023, Sub-Director of the Masters in International Studies. She is an integrated researcher at the Center for International Studies at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEI-IUL), having been an elected member of its Scientific Committee between 2016 and 2022. Between 2006 and 2015 she was a research assistant (2006-2011) and researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IPRI-NOVA). She completed her Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary History in 2011 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) with a thesis entitled "«The carnations need water now!» German Social Democracy and the Portuguese transition to Democracy (1974-1976)", which received the Honorable Mention of the Vitor de Sá Prize for Contemporary History 2012 and also the Honorable Mention of the Mário Soares-EDP Foundation Prize 2012. Her M.A. dissertation in History of International Relations (ISCTE-IUL), which received the Fundação Mário Soares Award in 2006, was published in 2007: A Força das Armas: The support of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Estado Novo (1958-1968) [Lisbon: MNE-ID, 2007]. Her research areas focus on transitions to democracy in Southern Europe, Portuguese-German relations during the Cold War and European social democracy, and the promotion of democracy. She has published regularly in national and international journals (Journal of European Integration History, Portuguese Journal of Social Sciences, Ler História, Relações Internacionais), and participated in several collective works.

Bruno Cardoso Reis is currently  deputy director of the ISCTE-IUL Center for International Studies. He is a guest advisor to the National Defense Institute and was involved in the working group to review the Strategic Concept for National Defense. He is an associate researcher at the Michael Howard Center for the History of War at King's College. He holds a Master's degree in Contemporary History from the Faculty of Letters University of Lisbon, in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in War Studies from King's College London. He has taught courses in History of International Relations, Security Studies, Multilateral Institutions, Globalization & Global Governance, Leadership & Grand Strategy. He has published more recently mainly on topics of  international history and international security, namely:  Decolonization, Détente and the Cold War in Southern Africa: Portuguese policy towards Angola and Mozambique (1974-1984), Journal of Cold War Studies [forthcoming]; Myths of Decolonization: Britain, France, and Portugal Compared in Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo & António Costa Pinto (Eds.), The ends of European colonial empires (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015), pp. 126-147; The Myth of British Minimum Force in Counterinsurgency during the Campaigns of Decolonization. Journal of Strategic Studies, 34/2 (2011), pp.245–279; Transnational Terrorism and the Threat to the Southern Flank of NATO: The case of Daesh. Nação e Defesa, No.143 (2016), pp. 43-58: 227-250; with A. Mumford (Eds.), The Theory and Practice of Irregular Warfare. (London: Routledge, 2013). His book Salazar e o Vaticano (1928-1968). (Lisbon: ICS, 2007) received the Vítor de Sá award for contemporary history and the Aristides de Sousa Mendes prize for international relations.

Luís Miguel Carolino is an Associate Professor (with "Agregação") at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal, where he is also a researcher affiliated with CIES. He was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2019) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2007). Before joining the History Department at the ISCTE-IUL, in September 2013, he held postdoc and research positions at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science (IMSS), Florence, Italy (2001-02), Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2002-07) and University of Lisbon, Portugal (2008-13). His main research interests concern History of Science, History of Learned Institutions and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Cosmology and Astronomy, areas in which he has published extensively. Carolino is member of the International Commission of the History of Universities.  

Luís Nuno Rodrigues is a Full Professor in the Department of History at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon, where he leads the PhD program in International Studies. He holds a PhD in American History from the University of Wisconsin and a PhD in Modern and Contemporary History (specializing in the History of International Relations in the Contemporary Era) from ISCTE-IUL. He has been a Visiting Professor at Brown University, USA. He previously served as Director of the Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Director of the PhD in History, Security, and Defense Studies (in collaboration with the Military Academy), and Director of the ISCTE Centre for International Studies. His areas of expertise include the History of International Relations, Cold War History, 20th Century Portuguese History, and the History of the United States of America. He has supervised dozens of PhD and Master’s theses. He has organized over a hundred colloquia, conferences, and seminars and has presented papers at a similar number of academic events in Portugal and abroad. He is the author of 9 books, editor of another 8, and has published 55 book chapters or entries in collective works, as well as over 30 articles in academic journals. His work Kennedy-Salazar: The Crisis of an Alliance. Luso-American Relations between 1961 and 1963, published in 2002, received the Mário Soares Foundation and Aristides Sousa Mendes Awards. His most recent publications include the book Spínola, published by Esfera dos Livros in 2010, the collective work Perceptions of NATO and the New Strategic Concept, which he co-edited with Volodymyr Dubovyk, the article “Establishing a ‘Cultural Base’? The Creation of the Fulbright Program in Portugal,” published in 2017 in the International History Review, and the collective work L’Aviation et son impact sur le temps et l’espace, published in 2019 by Editions Le Manuscript.

Maria Luísa Brandão Tiago de Oliveira completed her PhD in Modern and Contemporary History in 2000 at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and her degree in History in 1981 at the University of Lisbon. She is an Associated Professor at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a full researcher at CIES. Historian, she frequently collaborates with colleagues from other Social Sciences, naimly Antropology. Areas of interest: Oral History, Resistance Cultures, Transition to Democracy, Social Movements.