Paula Borges Santos, Principal Researcher at IPRI – NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH). Paula holds a PhD in History in 2012, by NOVA-FCSH, is currently is researcher in 3 international projects, visiting professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal). She was visiting professor at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2015 and 2020). She has 142 scientific publications (books, book chapters, articles, articles in specialized journals, entries in dictionaries), has also organized 36 events, supervising at present 1 and co-supervised 3 doctoral theses (2 funded by FCT, the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology) and 5 master’s dissertations, has received 3 prizes and has been a Principal Researcher in 4 projects and Researcher in 9 other projects. Paula’s domain of specialization is Contemporary History, in particular Autoritharian regimes, Emergence of democracy, Political institutions, Corporatism, State and religion.