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Beatrice Baumberger
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering Sciences, with a specialisation in Technological Innovation from Boston University. She is part of the PRM Market Intelligence team that produced the study "Women in Portugal today". She was born in Miami, USA, in 1995.

Last updated: November 2023
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Steffen Dix
He is a graduate in the Science of Religions (with a specialisation in Religious Phenomena in European Literature), Philosophy and Portuguese Philology and got his PhD in the Science of Religions from the University of Tübingen. In recent years, he has worked both on modernism in Fernando Pessoa (particularly in relation to his theoretical writings) and on the theory of secularisation (particularly in Portugal).

Last updated: March 2022
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Margarida Franca
She has a PhD in Human Geography (FL-UC). She currently works at the Coordination and Development Committee for the Centre Region, where she is involved in research projects funded by H2020 and is the scientific coordinator of PhD graduates hired by the CCDRC as part of Science and Technology Scholarships.
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José Pereira Coutinho
He has a Bachelor's degree in Agricultural Engineering (ISA-UTL), a Master's degree in Business Management and a PhD in Sociology (ISCTE-IUL). He was a researcher at NÚMENA and is currently an integrated researcher at the Centre for Research in Theology and Religion Studies (UCP). He works mainly on religious beliefs, practices and attitudes among young people.
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Jorge Botelho Moniz
PhD in Political Science (FCT), specialising in Political Theory and Analysis (FCSH/Nova; UFSC). Between 2014 and 2016, he was a PhD fellow of the European Union's Erasmus Mundus Action 2 programme at UFSC.
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Helena Vilaça
She holds a PhD in Sociology with a thesis on religious pluralism in Portuguese society and is a professor at the University of Porto School of Arts and Humanities.
She is a member of the executive committee of the Sociology department at this school and a researcher at the university, taking part in projects such as the EUREL project, which provides sociological and legal data on religion in Europe.
She studies the revitalisation of local churches in Europe, particularly in Portugal, and online religious expression.
She also researches issues related to legislation on religious freedom, new forms of religion and Catholicism in Portugal, religious minorities and Protestant and evangelical communities.
She has lectured at Uppsala University, Sweden, and was elected a member of the Council of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion.

Last updated: December 2018
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Pedro Perista
Sociologist, senior researcher at CESIS – Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social. Over the years, he has participated in numerous national and international research projects in the areas of poverty and social exclusion, social protection and social policies, among others. He currently represents Portugal in the European Network on Social Policy and in the team responsible for the Feasibility Study for the Creation of a European Guarantee for Vulnerable Children and is co-coordinator of the Poverty, Social Exclusion and Social Policies section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. He has co-authored around 50 publications.

Last updated: April 2021
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Osvaldo Silva
With a PhD in Mathematics, specialising in Probability and Statistics, he is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Azores and an integrated member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc). His main research interests include data analysis, especially multivariate data analysis, applied to the Social Sciences, covering multiple themes associated with local and regional development. He participates in several research projects and is co-author of several books and articles, both national and international.
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Lídia Fernandes
She has a PhD in Sociology: Labour relations, social inequalities and trade unionism (FEUC, 2019), a Master's degree in Sociology (ISCTE, 2011) and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology (University of Minho, 1998). She has been an integrated researcher at DINÂMIA'CET-ISCTE since 2013 and has worked with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc) since 2019. She has addressed topics such as: (un)employment, conflict and collective action; temporary work and collective bargaining; participatory reflection with marginalised groups; (under)valuation of work; poverty and inequalities; gender and immigration.

Last updated: April 2021
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Gabriela Trevisan
PhD in Child Studies, specialising in Sociology of Childhood. Researcher at the Prochild CoLAB against Poverty and Social Exclusion. External consulting member of CIEC, University of Minho. Her research focuses on children's rights, participation, public policies with an emphasis on child poverty and children's relationship with urban space, among others. She is co-coordinator of the Sociology of Childhood section of the Portuguese Sociological Association and works with the child poverty working group in the Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN).