She served as Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education in the XXI Government of Portugal between November 26, 2015, and October 17, 2018.
[1][3] Rollo is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University Lisbon.
[5] She also coordinates Memória para todos (Memories for all), which is a science training and research programme that promotes the study, organization and dissemination of the historical, cultural and technological heritage of Portugal, in close relationship with archives, institutions, municipalities, schools and local associations.
[3][4] Between 2008 and 2011, Rollo was an executive member of the National Commission for the Commemoration of the Centenary of the Portuguese Republic and now coordinates Centro República, which is a web portal that aims to preserve and make available the digital, bibliographic and documentary heritage produced and brought together within the framework of the Centenary Commemoration, as well as to promote research and debate around the theme of the First Republic and Republicanism.
In November 2015 she was appointed as Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education in the XXI Government of Portugal and served in this role until October 2018.