Ana Lúcia Sá, PhD in Sociology, is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Policy, and a researcher at the Centre for International Studies at Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She is an elected member of the Scientific Board and deputy director of the Department of Political Science and Public Policy. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Cadernos de Estudos Africanos. She belongs to the African Politics and International Relations research group of the European Network of African Studies (AEGIS) and the African Studies Section of the Portuguese Political Science Association. He is also a member of the Visibility Working Group of Aegis, European Network of African Studies. She is an associate researcher at the Amílcar Cabral Centre for Social Studies in Guinea-Bissau. She was a post-doctoral researcher at the Spanish National Research Council in Barcelona and visiting fellow at the Institute of African Studies at Columbia University in New York. Her research focuses on authoritarian regimes in Africa, especially Angola and Equatorial Guinea, contexts on which she has published books, chapters in books and articles in journals.