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He works as a lecturer at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) and as a researcher at the Centre for International Studies (CEI). He specialises in democracy, social movements and civil society.
He co-directs the «Varieties of Democracy in Southern Europe» project, which studies the causes and consequences of democratisation in Southern Europe from 1960 to the present. He also coordinates the Portuguese team on the «Disobedient Democracy» project, which analyses the causes and patterns of protest in the Southwest and Southeast of Europe.
For 20 years, he taught at the Nova University Lisbon, where he also headed the Political Studies department and served on the Board of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI).
He has dozens of publications in indexed journals and has written books such as «A Sociedade Civil», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: March 2021

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in 1994. He completed her Master’s degree in Anthropology: Heritage and Identities at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon in 1999, before defending his PhD in Culture and Social Anthropology at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in 2007. In 2008, he joined the Research Centre for Economic and Organisational Sociology at the University of Lisbon (ISEG-ULisboa), where he conducted his postdoctoral research focusing on sociological studies of finance and organisational ethnography. His research areas also include social studies of finance and the new configurations of policing and security.

A civil engineer in territorial planning (FEUP), he was born in Porto in 1952. He was on the North Region Planning Committee for the introduction of the GATs and leads the Terra Quente Transmontana Association of Municipalities. He was Chairman of Nor-Risco – Capital de Risco, SA and Director of the European Venture Capital Association; Vice-Chairman of the CCRN, coordinating the Vale Ave OID and cooperation with Galicia. He launched SPIDOURO, SA, where he promoted Historic Trains, the Douro World Heritage Candidacy and Lavradores de Feitoria, as well as many other projects. From 2003, he worked as a consultant with API and advised a number of governments on the promotion of forestry investment, launching Bosque – Inovação e Desenvolvimento Florestal, SA.

Last updated: March 2022

Assistant professor (since 2016) and coordinator of Constitutional Law at the Porto Catholic University of Lisbon School of Law. She is also the executive coordinator of the Master’s degree courses in Law (2022), scientific coordinator of the Master’s degree courses in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Human Rights and co-coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Degree in Human Rights.
She is a member of the Coordination Council of the «Academic Network on The European Social Charter and Social Rights» and co-editor of the series «Constitutionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean» (Hart Publishing).
She is a member of the International Society of Public Law and the International Association of Electoral Law. Her most recent publications are: «Regulating Parties by Constitutional Rules in Liberal Democracies» (with Nuno Garoupa), in the German Law Journal, vol. 24 (9) 2023; «Academic Freedom as a Defensive Right» (with M. Stachowiak-Kudla, S. Westa & I. Bartha), Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, vol. 15, 2023; «The Presentist Portuguese Constitution, in The Architecture of Constitutional Amendments: History, Law, Politics», Hart Publishing, 2023; «Portugal: A European Union-friendly jurisdiction (with Marta Vicente), EU Law and National Constitutions: The Constitutional Dynamics of Multi-Level Governance», Routledge, 2024. And also «The end of the deception? Counteracting algorithmic discrimination in the digital age», in The Oxford Handbook on Digital Constitutionalism, Oxford University Press, 2024, in press.

Last updated: April 2024

PhD in Anthropology from ICS-UL. Lecturer in the Anthropology department at ISCTE-IUL. Her most recent works include «Mulheres Condenadas. Histórias de Dentro da Prisão» (Tinta-da-China), «Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology and Surveillance» (Berghahn), «Vigilância e Poder» (Mundos Sociais) and «A Sociedade Vigilante: Ensaios sobre Identificação, Vigilância e Privacidade» (Imprensa de Ciências Sociais).

Last updated: January 2020

He holds a PhD in Law from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and teaches on the Master’s in Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Financial Management and Business Auditing, and on the PhD course in Blockchain and other digital technologies at the UPF Barcelona School of Management. He specialises in contract law and civil liability. He worked on his research at the Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht and the University of Pennsylvania School of Law.

Last updated: November 2023

Founder of the European Union Democracy Observatory (EUDO) at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the EUI. Professor of Political Science and holder of the Swiss Chair of Federalism and Democracy at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy.
He completed his PhD in Political Science (with distinction) at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). Before coming to the EUI in 2005, he was Deputy Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation on Direct Democracy (C2D) at the School of Law of the University of Geneva (1999-2005).

Last updated: March 2022

Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos

Researcher at the Observatory of Portuguese Legislation, FDUNL, Master’s degree in Law from Nova University Lisbon, where she also graduated from, she was an advisor to the Portuguese Parliament’s Working Group for Legislative Consolidation and a lawyer at the Ministry of Justice.

Last updated: March 2022

University lecturer at the University of Coimbra School of Law, PhD in Administration Sciences from the University of Minho School of Economics and Management, Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from ISCP-UL.

Last updated: March 2022