Catarina Frade, completed her PhD in Economics (speciality in Social Structures of Economics and Economic History) in 2008 at the University of Coimbra,. She holds a Master degree in European Economics (1996) by the University of Coimbra Faculty of Economics, Master i and a Law Degree (1993) by the University of Coimbra., Faculty of Law. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra Faculty of Economics and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies. She published 17 articles in peer review journals. She has 16 book chapters and 4 books. Organized 7 scientific events, mostly international and provided several lectures both at national and international conferences and seminars. Co-supervised 2 doctoral thesis and co-supervise other two currently. Co-supervised 5 master's dissertation (s). Received 1 prize and / or honor. She belongs to 2 research networks (3 international and 2 national). She is an expert of the World Bank task force on debtors and creditor' rights. She participates and / or participated as an Investigator in 8 projects and as Responsible Investigator in 7 projects, one of them as the leader of the consortium of an international project funded by DG Justice of the European Commission.. Operates in the area (s) of Social Sciences with an emphasis on Law and Social Sciences and Economics and Management. In her professional activities she interacted with 56 collaborators in co-authoring scientific works. In its Ciência Vitae curriculum, the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: consumers over-indebtedness; Portuguese Bankruptcy Code; economic crisis; Market Anomie; Institutional trust; justice; low-density territories; service innovation, public policies.