Politics

He has a PhD in History from King's College, University of London and is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Coimbra. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (UC) and scientific co-coordinator of the PhD programme in Heritage of Portuguese Influence (III/CES-UC). His research interests focus on the history of imperialism and colonialism (19th-20th centuries). His work has been published regularly, in Portugal and abroad, by leading publishers and in journals.

Last updated: March 2023

Assistant Professor of Economic Policy at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and affiliated researcher at CESifo. Her main areas of research are public economics and political economy, particularly how institutions shape the motivations of politicians and voters, and therefore economic policy and electoral outcomes.

Professor of Economics at the University of Toronto. Her main fields of study are Macroeconomics, International Finance and Economic Growth and Development. Before joining the University of Toronto, she worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. She was also a visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University and CEMFI. She got her PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2001.
Last updated: March 2023

PhD student at Harvard University, where she is finishing a thesis on the effect of political parties and institutions on the process of representation, comparing the reality in the USA, the UK and mainland Europe. She has a Bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science.

Last updated: March 2023

Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities – Nova FCSH. She was a visiting researcher at CEPS (Brussels) and at the Viadrina European University (Frankfurt Oder, Germany). She has studied the politics of Central, Eastern and Southern Europe. She has published work on comparative relations between religion and the state, on issues of constitutionalism, Catholicism, nationalism and political parties. She is a member of the board of the Portuguese Political Science Association.

Last updated: March 2023

Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Houston. Her interests focus on comparative legal politics, constitutional courts, judicial reform and judicial independence.

Last updated: March 2023

Full Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Minho. Since 2012 she has been a visiting professor at the University of São Paulo (DCP and IRI). She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent in the UK. She is the author and coordinator of several books and has published a significant number of articles in leading international journals, such as the "Journal of Common Market Studies", "Cambridge Review of International Affairs", "European Security", "Journal of Contemporary European Studies", "International Politics", "Journal of European Integration" and "Cooperation and Conflict".
In October 2010 she was awarded the 'UTL/Santander Totta Scientific Prize 2010' for her research activity in the scientific area of International Relations.

Researcher at the University of Minho Communication and Society Centre. He has a PhD in History from the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, with a thesis on the internationalisation of the issue of colonial labour in the post-World War II period. His research interests have been in the fields of international and transnational history and imperial and colonial history. She is currently developing a research project that crosses these disciplinary domains on questions of citizenship and the regime of rights in late Portuguese colonialism.

Last updated: March 2023

He is an assistant professor of Political Science at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH-Nova) and an integrated researcher at IPRI-Nova.
He has worked in the field of comparative politics and political behaviour in particular, especially in the field of political participation.
He has published articles in a number of scientific journals such as «Political Geography» and «Representation.
In the Spring 2024 semester he was the FLAD visiting professor at the Department of Government of Georgetown University, in Washington DC.

Last updated: july 2025

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.