Lígia Amancio graduated in Psychology and Educational Studies at the University of Paris VIII and started teaching at ISCTE in 1978-79 where she concluded her PhD in Sociology in 1989 and presented her "habilitation" in 1999. She is full professor of social psychology since 2002. Following her PhD which marked the beginning of gender studies in Portugal she dedicated her research career to understanding the social construction of gender categories and its impact on discrimination, in particular discrimination of women in public and highly qualified professions such as politics, sciences and medicine. She supervised / co-supervised (2) 9 PhDs at ISCTE and other national institutions and two post doctoral researchers. She was visiting professor and gave seminars in doctoral programmes at the Universities of Brandeis (USA) Helsinky (FN), Geneva (SW), School of Social Sciences in Paris (FR) and Bahia (BR). Among other research projects she coordinated the Portuguese team of the European funded project SAGE (Systemic Action for Gender Equality) from 2016 through 2019 which originated the book published in 2020 by Taylor and Francis, The Gender-Sensitive University. A Contradiction in terms? (open access). At ISCTE she occupied management positions as director of the research center of sociology (CIES) in 1989-1993 and director of the research center of psychology (2002-216), as vice-president of the scientific council (2002-2004), and as head of the social and organisational psychology section and later president of this department. In public administration she was president of the Commission for Equality and Women's Rights of the Portuguese government (1996-1998), national delegate in the management committee for the support of social sciences of the EU and member of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB) (2001-2004), vice president of the board of the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (2006-2012), member of the Ethics Committee for Life Sciences (2009-2014) and member of the Board of Trustees of the Agency for the Evaluation in Higher Education (A3ES). She retired in 2018 and received the title of emeritus professor of ISCTE-IUL in 2019. In the same year João Manuel Oliveira and Conceição Nogueira edited the book Lígia Amâncio: o género como ação sobre o mundo to celebrate her career, available in open access. In July 2021 she was elected member of the Board of the European Platform of Women Scientists (EPWS) in representation of AMONET, the Portuguese Association of Women Scientists, of which she was a founding member in 2004. In 2023 she received a career award from the the Alumni Club of ISCTE.

University/Institution	Type	Degree	Period
ISCTE-IUL - Instituto Superior Ciências Trabalho e da Empresa	PhD	Sociologia	1989
Université de Paris VIII - Vincennes	M.Sc.	Psicologia e Ciências da Educação	1976