Tatiana Morais is a Guest Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Law and at the Portuguese Military Academy.

She was a Post-Doctoral research at NOVA School of Law (2025), where she earned her PhD in Law (summa cum laude | distinção e louvor). She also holds a LLM in Human Rights (magna cum laude) from Minho University and a LLB from the University of Lisboa.

Her academic research focuses on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) cases in the country of asylum from an intersectional standpoint.

Tatiana has a strong background in migration studies, gender issues and qualitative methods, intersectional legal impact, vulnerability theory and legal tensions. From 2017 until 2019, she has done fieldwork in Greece, Israel, and Uganda on SGBV targeting refugee and asylum-seeking women.

To conduct her PhD research, Tatiana was the recipient of FCT scholarship; FCT studentship; and Fulbright Grant.

 As a Fulbright Visiting Researcher, she conducted part of her data analysis at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Previously, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Bristol and a Visiting Researcher at College of Law and Business, in Ramat-Gan.

Her research impact includes recommendations for legal reforms regarding sexual harassment, made in collaboration with and based on the expertise of members of UMAR ["Assédio sexual no trabalho: uma reflexão a partir de ordenamentos jurídicos"]. And recommendations for legal reforms regarding sexual violence, in collaboration with and based on the expertise of members of APMJ ["Os primeiros impactos da Convenção de Istambul: da relutância do legislador nacional em adoptar a falta de consentimento como elemento do tipo legal do crime de violação"]. Both sets of recommendations were taken into account in subsequent legal reforms introduced at national level.

Tatiana is admitted to practice as an attorney in Portugal and is a certified legal trainer (CCP).