Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Lisbon University Institute (Iscte) and co-chair of the Research Group on ‘Politics and Citizenship’ at CIES-Iscte. She is the Principal Investigator of the FCT funded Project ‘HOPES: HOusing PErspectives and Struggles’, and co-chair of the Council of European Studies Research Network Social Movements. Her main area of teaching and research are social movements, digital activism, policing protest, radicalism, gentrification and housing activism, and citizenship. She has published articles in four languages in journals including Current Sociology, Mobilization, Social Movement Studies, Journal of Contemporary Religion, West European Politics, Estudos Ibero-Americanos, Democratization, Cultures et Conflits, Historein. She is the author of the monograph Democratization, Cultures et Conflits, Historein. She is the author of the monograph The Revolution before the Revolution: Late Authoritarianism and Student Protest in Portugal, and co-editor (with Olivier Fillieule) of the book Social Movement Studies in Europe (both 2016 Berghahn Books).