Riccardo Marchi is post-doctoral researcher at the Center of International Studies of the ISCTE-IUL with a project on counter-subversion in Portugal during the Cold War in comparative perspective. His research fields are the right-wing radicalism (political thought, parties and movements) and the relations between States and radical organizations in contemporary Europe. He was a scholarship researcher of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2015) working on a book on the Portuguese radical right during the transition to democracy. He began his academic career at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) on the topics of the radical right at the end of the Portuguese authoritarian regime and during the democratic period in comparative perspective (2008-2014). In this context he was visiting researcher at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (Spain, 2007) and at the University of California, Berkeley (United States, 2008). He taught the chair of Research methods in undergraduate and master’s degree courses at the European University (Portugal, 2010-2014). He participated in the international project Internationalisation des droites radicales Europe/Amériques (IDREA), coordinated by Professor Olivier Dard, University of Metz (France, 2012-2015), since 2014 he is part of the international research network “Right, History and Memory”. Currently he is PI for the project NEAR New Euro-American Radical Right funded by FCT.