I am currently a researcher at Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon, where I also am an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Economy and the School of Applied Digital Technologies.

I hold a PhD in Sociology (2019) from the University of Cambridge. Having won the prize for best dissertation from the Portuguese Political Science Association (2022), it was published as a book entitled Contesting Austerity Social Movements and the Left in Portugal and Spain (2008-2015) with Amsterdam University Press (which won the 1st edition of the João Ferreira de Almeida Prize).

I was a researcher at Scuola Normale Superiore, Florence, where I remain affiliated with the Center on Social Movement Studies. I held visiting positions at Carlos III University (Madrid)(2015/2016, 2023), Scuola Normale Superiore (2016), the University of York (2022), and the University of Florence (2024). In 2023, I was the FLAD Visiting Professor at Brown University, where I taught Social Movement and Contentious Politics in Southern Europe.

Additionally, I serve as co-chair of the Social Movement Research Network of the Council for European Studies since 2022. Alongside Guya Accornero, I co-coordinate the Monthly Seminar on Social Movements and Political Action.

My current research explores two themes. Firstly, I delve into collective action and class inequalities in Southern Europe, with a specific focus on Portugal. Secondly, I am engaged in studying Extinction Rebellion, concentrating on the transnational diffusion of contemporary Environmental Movements.

My research has been published in Housing Studies, Review of African Political Studies, Social Movement Studies, Environmental Sociology, Religion, State & Society, Portuguese Journal of Social Sciences, New Media & Society, Childhood, and Análise Social, among others.