Pedro Cardim is Associate Professor of History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), and the author of numerous studies about Portugal and its relations with the Iberian world during the early-modern period. He has been teaching courses on Western European history and the early modern European empires for the last ten years to both undergraduate and graduate students. He has organized or co-organized several international meetings on the history of the Iberian empires, and he is a member of the board of CHAM – Portuguese Centre for Global History (UNL). Prominent among his publications are Portugal unido y separado. Felipe II, la unión de territorios y la condición política del reino de Portugal (2014), D. Afonso VI (2006, con Ângela Barreto Xavier) or Cortes e cultura política no Portugal do Antigo Regime (1998).