Marta Patrício holds a degree in Political Science and International Relations (2017) from FCSH - Universidade Nova de Lisboa; MsC in African Studies (2010) and PhD in African Studies (2017) both from ISCTE-IUL. Between 2010 and 2012 she was research assistant at the (former) Centre of African Studies of ISCTE-IUL in the project "Identities and Borders in Africa" (PTDC/AFR/098339/2008). Between 2012 and 2016 she was granted a PhD scholarship in African Studies (SFRH/BD/78206/2011) to work in her thesis at the Centre of International Studies (CEI-IUL). The thesis is about the dynamics of legal pluralism in the mozambican district of Mossurize. Her research focuses on state-building processes and State-society relations in post-colonial Subsaharan Africa, namely in Mozambique. She was member of the AfrkPlay Project between 2012 and 2015. From September 2016 to January 2018 she was a postdoctoral research fellow in the «Multi sectorial Academic Programme to prevent and combat Female Genital Mutilation (FGM/C)» co-funded by the European Comission (JUST/2014/RDAP/AG/HARM/7937).