team

team

Core Team

Helena Machado

[Principal Investigator]

Coordinator Researcher at CIES-Iscte – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon.

Rafael Borba

[Researcher]

PhD Student at NOVA School of Law; PhD Grantholder at CIES-Iscte, University Institute of Lisbon.

Susana de Noronha

[Researcher]

Auxiliary Researcher at CIES-Iscte – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon.

João M. Santos

[Researcher]

Auxiliary Researcher at CIES-Iscte – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon.

Susana Silva

[Researcher]

Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute for Social Sciences, University of Minho.

 

Scientific Committee

Fernanda Glória Bruno

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil.

 

 

 

Michelle Christensen

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

Berlin University of the Arts/ Weizenbaum Institute; Technische Universität Berlin/ Einstein Center Digital Future.

 

Miren Gutierrez

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

University of Deusto, Spain.

 

 

 

Lila Lee-Morrison

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

Lund University, Sweden; Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union, USA.

 

 

Massimo Leone

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

University of Turin, Italy; Centre for Religious Studies, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy.

 

Torin Monahan

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.

Anders Kristian Munk

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

Technical University of Denmark.

Aaron Tucker

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Inga Ulnicane

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

University of Cambridge, UK.

 

Joëlle Vailly

[PhD - Scientific Advisor]

National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France.

Collaborators

Nina Amelung

[Collaborator]

Researcher at CIES-Iscte – Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon.

Barbara Branco

[Collaborator]

PhD Candidate at the University of Warwick.

Adalberto Fernandes

[Collaborator]

Auxiliary Researcher (FCT-Tenure) at CEOS.PP – ISCAP, Polytechnic of Porto.

Rafaela Granja

[Collaborator]

Auxiliary Researcher at CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre, University of Minho.

Helena Pereira de Melo

[Collaborator]

Associate Professor of Public Law at Iscte – University Institute of Lisbon and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto.

Laura Neiva

[Collaborator]

Assistant Professor in Criminology and Sociology at Lusíada University and Invited Assistant Professor at University of Minho.

Filipa Queirós

[Collaborator]

Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra.

Students

Ringo Azevedo

[Student]

Master’s Student in Sociology – Crime, Difference and Inequality at the University of Minho.

Adriana Ferreira

[Student]

Master’s Student in Sociology – Crime, Difference and Inequality at the University of Minho.

Former Members

Paulo Melo

[Former Researcher]

Holds a PhD in Communication and Contemporary Culture from the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil. His research focuses on communication, digital technologies, race and racism, journalism, communication policies, media and human rights, community media, and the political economy of communication.  In the fAIces project (07/2025 – 04/2026) Paulo worked on surveillance and racism.