Susana Santos is a Research Fellow at CIES-IUL and an invited assistant at the Department of Sociology, ISCTE-IUL. She holds a PhD from ISCTE-IUL (2012). In the present, she is working on her Post-doc project about young business lawyers in national and international large law firms, focused on studying the impacts of economic globalization on young law professionals. 

Her research interests include:  the study of transnational elites and young high-skilled professional trajectories. On a broader perspective Sociology of Law, and the intersection of Sociology of Law with Sociology of Professions, Organizations and Work. At a teaching level she focuses her attention on Political Communication, more specifically the formation of public spheres in different type of contexts, like digital public forums, helping students at masters’ level to develop their research projects and dissertations.

Since 2002, she is a researcher at CIES-IUL working in several research projects in the fields of Sociology of Communication, Political Sociology and Sociology of Law.