Filipa Pinho is a sociologist and holds a PhD degree in sociology awarded by Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Her research interests have focused mainly on international migration (Portuguese emigration and the return of migrants, Brazilian migration to Portugal, migration policies, refugees) youth and, lately, also housing (she collaborates with the LxHabidata project). Since the 2019/2020 academic year, she has been a visiting assistant professor at the School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP), and is currently a researcher at CIES, Iscte. She works as an independent researcher/consultant on a variety of projects. Some recent examples: Education & Job Market Research (2024), Aga Khan Foundation; Lisbon Municipal Plan for the Integration of Migrants 2023-2026 (2024), DDS/CML; Empreender 2020 - Return of a Prepared Generation (2017), AEP Foundation; Integration and political participation of immigrants (2015), European Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA); Support and Opposition to Migration in a Comparative Perspective (2017), various projects at IPPS-Iscte and PPLL, Lda (2017). Between January 2019 and September 2021, she was a post-doctoral researcher at CES Coimbra, in the project Experiences and Expectations of Return of New Portuguese Emigrants: Reintegration and Mobilities, in which CIES also participated.She was an invited assistant researcher on the PandPAS and Below 10 projects at CIES_Iscte in 2018. Previously, she was the executive coordinator of the Emigration Observatory from its foundation in January 2009 until 2013. She was a project coordinator and researcher at the International Organisation for Migration (in 2004 and 2014).She also worked for several years in national and international market research companies, as a market researcher.

 Ana Maria Belchior is an associate professor, with aggregation, in the Department of Political Science and Public Policies at ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) in Lisbon, and senior researcher at CIES-IUL. She is currently the coordinator of the Master in Political Science, both at ISCTE-IUL. She has been involved in research on several projects related to the themes of democracy and globalization, political participation, democratic representation, political congruence, and electoral pledges and decision-making. She has published her findings in books and book chapters, and in diverse national and international journals (eg. Comparative Political Studies, International Political Science Review, Party Politics, Sociological Methods & Research, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, or The Journal of Legislative Studies).  

Ana Mónica Fonseca is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at Iscte and, since 2022, director of the Center for International Studies at Iscte. Since January 2022, she has been the Director of the Master’s in Modern and Contemporary History and, between September 2019 and September 2023, Sub-Director of the Masters in International Studies. She is an integrated researcher at the Center for International Studies at ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEI-IUL), having been an elected member of its Scientific Committee between 2016 and 2022. Between 2006 and 2015 she was a research assistant (2006-2011) and researcher at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IPRI-NOVA). She completed her Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary History in 2011 at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) with a thesis entitled "«The carnations need water now!» German Social Democracy and the Portuguese transition to Democracy (1974-1976)", which received the Honorable Mention of the Vitor de Sá Prize for Contemporary History 2012 and also the Honorable Mention of the Mário Soares-EDP Foundation Prize 2012. Her M.A. dissertation in History of International Relations (ISCTE-IUL), which received the Fundação Mário Soares Award in 2006, was published in 2007: A Força das Armas: The support of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Estado Novo (1958-1968) [Lisbon: MNE-ID, 2007]. Her research areas focus on transitions to democracy in Southern Europe, Portuguese-German relations during the Cold War and European social democracy, and the promotion of democracy. She has published regularly in national and international journals (Journal of European Integration History, Portuguese Journal of Social Sciences, Ler História, Relações Internacionais), and participated in several collective works.

Marcia Rangel Candido is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) and Visiting Professor in the Master’s Program in Political Science at the School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP), both at the University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte). She is Associate Editor of DADOS (since 2015) and Humanities Moderator at SciELO Preprints. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ), funded by the Serrapilheira Institute (2021–2022) and by a Faperj Nota 10 Fellowship (2022–2024). She received the award for best doctoral thesis defended in the PPGCP/IESP-UERJ in 2022, where she also completed her PhD and MA in Political Science. She holds a BA in Social Sciences from UFRJ. Her doctoral thesis was also a finalist in the ANPOCS National Competition for Theses and Dissertations in 2022. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge (with a CAPES/PDSE grant), at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte), at the University of Coimbra, at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She has taught courses at UFRJ, at the University of Brasília (as collaborator of Flávia Biroli), at SESC-SP, at IRI-PUC-Rio, and at IESP-UERJ. She has collaborated on research projects of the Brazilian Political Science Association (2020–2021) and the Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Social Sciences (2022). At the ANPOCS Annual Meeting, she co-coordinated in 2023 and 2024 the Working Group Gender Inequalities in Politics – Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives, alongside Professor Cristiano Rodrigues (UFMG). In the field of science communication, she contributes to Nexo Políticas Públicas, Gênero e Número and Latinoamérica 21. In 2018, she founded the collective project Horizontes ao Sul, which received an honorable mention in the ANPOCS Award for Science Communication in the Social Sciences. She was also a research fellow at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), where she contributed to a mapping of initiatives for the popularization of the Social Sciences in Brazil. She is a member of the Brazilian Network of Women Scientists (RBMC), the Research Network on Feminisms and Politics (RPFM), and the Red Politólogas. Her research focuses on inequalities in science, politics, and Brazilian cinema. She has also worked in advisory and expert roles for government and society: in 2018 she was an invited specialist on the Working Group on Gender and Ethnic-Racial Diversity in Audiovisual Media at the Ministry of Culture (Brazil), and in 2024 she joined the Working Group on Maternal Permanence in Higher Education Institutions at the Ministry of Education (Brazil). She has also served as an expert advisor in public hearings in both the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate.   She is the author of the book Dois gêneros, duas histórias? A fundação da ciência política no Brasil (EdUERJ).

Tiago Fernandes (PhD European University Institute, Florence, 2009) is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE). He also directs the Varieties of Democracy Regional Center for Southern Europe and is a researcher at the Center for International Studies - ISCTE. He works on the politics of democracy, social movements and civil society, with a regional specialization on Southern Europe. Before coming to ISCTE, he was for twenty years in the faculty of Nova University of Lisbon, where he taught in the departments of sociology and political studies, was director of graduate studies and head of the department of political science and served in the directive board of the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI).  Selected publications: Neither Dictatorship, Nor Revolution. The Liberal Wing and the End of the Portuguese Dictatorship, Lisbon, D. Quixote / Assembleia da República (2006); Civil Society, Democracy, and Inequality: Cross-Regional Comparisons (1970s-2010s), Special Issue, Comparative Politics (2017) (co-edited); Late neoliberalism and its discontents: Comparing crises and movements in the European periphery, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017 (co-authored); Memories and Movements. The Legacy of Democratic Transitions in Contemporary Anti-Austerity Protest, Oxford University Press, 2018 (co-authored); Forty-Five Years of Democracy in Portugal: Achievements and Prospects, Lisbon, Assembleia da República, 2020 (co-edited); Democratic Quality in Southern Europe: France, Italy, Greece, Portugal, and Spain, University of Notre Dame Press, Kellogg Series on Democracy and Development, 2024 (edited); and Portugal 1974-1975: Revolution, Counterrevolution, and Democracy, Lisbon, Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, 2024. Together with Staffan Lindberg (Varieties of Democracy Institute - University of Gothenburg), he directs the project Varieties of Democracy in Southern Europe, which focuses on the causes and consequences of democratization in the region from the 1960s to the present and is funded by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation (https://www.v-dem.net/en/regional-centers/southern-europe/). He also coordinated the Portuguese team of the project Disobedient Democracy, led by Danijela Dolenec at the University of Zagreb and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, which looked at the causes and patterns of protest in the Southwest and Southeast regions of Europe (https://disdem.org/). He is also a non-resident fellow at the Center on Social Movement Studies (Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence). He was a visiting scholar at Princeton University, the Juan March Foundation (Madrid) and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (USA) and is the recipient of the Gulbenkian Foundation award for the best article in the social sciences and the Best PhD Dissertation prize of the Portuguese Political Science Association. His current research focuses on the comparative analysis of civil society mobilization against authoritarian takeovers in 19th and early 20th centuries Southern Europe; the impact of social revolution on democracy and authoritarianism; and postcolonial transformations in lusophone Africa (with Olukunle Owolabi, Villanova University). Before starting his academic career, he took a BA in Sociology (minors in History and Philosophy) and an MPhil in Historical Sociology at Nova University of Lisbon and an MPhil in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute (Florence). He also passed the national examinations for the diplomatic service at the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he briefly attended the attaché training course (1997).

PhD in African Studies, Vasco Martins is Assistant Professor at Iscte (University Institute of Lisbon) and a researcher at the Centre for International Studies at the same institution. His research focuses on issues related to citizenship and informality, ethnicity and the politics of memory, with a particular focus on the Southern African region. He has been published in international journals such as African Studies Review, Citizenship Studies, Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of African History, among others. Author of the book Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola (Routledge, 2021), he is also Director of the journal Cadernos de Estudos Africanos.