Annelien Groten is an invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Sociology and Public Policy of ISCTE-IUL. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from the School of Human and Social Sciences at ISCTE-IUL. She  postgraduated in Development Studies (2003) from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and graduated in European Studies (2002) from the University of Amsterdam. Since 2019 she has been teaching at ISCTE-IUL in the fields of anthropology of humanitarian action and participatory evaluation. She is part of the research projects on humanitarian action 'HUMACT' and 'INOVHUMRE' implemented in collaboration with partnering universities. She also continues to be a practitioner in the field of monitoring and evaluation for which she works on various assignments across Africa, Asia and the Middle East.