I am a Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) since 2020 and Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Economy (since 2021) and the School of Applied Digital Technologies (since 2024) at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon. 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 relations between parties and movements during the austerity period in Portugal and Spain. I analyse the processes through which political contention emerges, diffuses, and becomes institutionalised, exploring both the public dimension of protest and its articulation with parties and institutions. I have also studied transnational dynamics and mobilisations around housing, climate action, and anti-austerity politics. Methodologically, I mobilise a range of qualitative and quantitative approaches, from systematic protest event analysis to comparative methods and case studies, as well as I employ computational methods for large-scale data collection and analysis. I have also advanced methodological innovations which extends the idea of backstage by incorporating different forms of involvement and interaction among collective actors.

Between 2022 and 2025, I was co-chair of the Research Network on Social Movements of the Council of European Studies and co-organised several international conferences.

I am also engaged in public debates and media commentary. My analyses have appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique (Portugal), Expresso, Público, ECO, Le Soir (Belgium), as well as in international outlets such as ECPR The Loop and the LSE EUROPP blog.

My work has been published in journals such as European Societies, Environmental Science & Policy, Housing Studies, Review of African Political Economy, Social Movement Studies, Environmental Sociology and Religion, State & Society. I have also contributed to the Oxford Handbook of Climate Action (2025) and the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications for Social Movements (2024).

You can find more about my work here.