Research Fields
Social Movements
Social Classes
Political Participation
Political Parties
Urban Studies
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I
am
an
Assistant
Professor
in
the
Department
of
Sociology.
I
hold
a
PhD
in
Sociology
from
the
University
of
Cambridge
(2019).
My
dissertation
was
awarded
the
Portuguese
Political
Science
Association
Prize
for
Best
Dissertation
(2022)
and
published
by
Amsterdam
University
Press
as
Contesting
Austerity:
Social
Movements
and
the
Left
in
Portugal
and
Spain
(2022),
which
received
the
João
Ferreira
de
Almeida
Prize
(2024).
I
was
a
postdoctoral
researcher
at
the
Scuola
Normale
Superiore
in
Florence
(2019–2020),
and
held
visiting
positions
at
Universidad
Carlos
III
de
Madrid
(2015–2016,
2023),
Scuola
Normale
Superiore
(2016),
University
of
York
(2022),
and
University
of
Florence
(2024).
In
2023,
I
was
the
FLAD
Visiting
Professor
at
Brown
University.My
research
focuses
on
collective
action
and
contemporary
politics,
particularly
social
movements,
political
parties,
and
their
interactions.
In
my
book
Contesting
Austerity
and
in
my
article
in
European
Societies
(2025),
I
examined
how
processes
of
backstage
partyisation
shaped
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