Politics

Emeritus researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences. He was Director of the National Library and twice Vice-Rector of the University of Lisbon. With a Bachelor’s degree and PhD in History (Paris), he was a Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and held the Chair of Portuguese History at King's College, London.

Last updated: March 2022

She holds a PhD in Demography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is an assistant researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (CEEC Individual), and a visiting assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences. She is the coordinator of the PhD in Population Sciences (ULisboa) at the ICS and a member of the Scientific Committee. Her research focuses on the demography of housing, demographic ageing and, more recently, the study of Portuguese emigration to the USA.

Last updated: January 2025

Assistant Professor at NOVA University Lisbon and a researcher at IPRI–NOVA, with research interests on political elites, political executives, and political leadership.

Last updated: september 2026

A political scientist, she is Director (since 2023) and Coordinating Researcher of the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon. Since 2021, she has also been Editor of the European Political Science Review.
She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oxford (2001). She directs the Electoral Behaviour and Political Attitudes of the Portuguese project as well as an ERC project on the consequences of the politicisation of European issues on national politics.
She has published several books and articles on Portuguese attitudes towards Europe, voting behaviour and the functioning of political institutions in Portugal from a comparative perspective.

Last updated: May 2024