Research
Current research interests
Rights and duties in democracy
Populisms
Migrations and democracies
Narratives and emotions
Political Mythology
Research Projects
2024-2-1 - 2027-1-31 - "CO3 - COntinuous COnstruction of Resilient Social COntracts through Societal Transformations", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by European Commission - Horizon Europe .
2024-1-1 - 2026-12-31 - "PROTEMO - Emotional dynamics of protective policies in an age of insecurity", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by European Commission - Horizon Europe .
2021-03-22 - 2025-03-21 - "UNPOP - UNpacking POPulism: Comparing the formation of emotion narratives and their effects on political behaviour", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation.
2021-01-01 - 2022-02-28 - "FRANET - The fundamental rights situation of long-term residents in the EU", coordinated by João Paulo Dias, sponsored by European Union Fundamental Rights Agency.
2018-02-01 - 2021-01-31 - "ECHOES - European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities", coordinated by Jon Oldfiels & Paulo Peixoto, sponsored by European Commission - Horizon 2020.
2017 - 2017 - "Study of Social Technology Ecosystems in Sub-Saharan Africa", coordinated by Christopher Csíkszentmihályi, sponsored by Comic Relief, Indigo Trust and Nominet Trust.
2011-10-01 - 2016-12-31 - "ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences", coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, sponsored by European Research Council.
Networks
Alumni of the European Master in Human Rights and Democratisation (E.MAlumni)
COST Action - Decolonising Development
Emotions, Populism and Polarisation, Research groupo at the University of Helsinki (HEPPsinki)
European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) SG: Political Sociology, Democratic Innovations, Teaching and Learning Politics, Extremism and Democracy, Migration and Ethnicity, Political Culture, Political Theory, Affective Polarization, Southern European Politics
Inter-Thematic group on Migration (ITM)
International Political Science Association (IPSA)
International Sociological Association (ISA)
Junior Sociologists Network of the International Sociological Association (JSN)
Popular University of Social Movements (UPMS)
Populism/antipopulism, populisms and the Radical Right, Research groupo at the Scuola Normale Superiore - Florence