Political science researcher and guest assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL. Master and PhD in Modern and Contemporary History and two Post-Doctoral research projects on Political Science, focusing on Local Government. Principal investigator in a research project on History of Popularization of Science and Technology. Specialized in political transitions, local government, political and economic elites, memories and identities, rural and urban history, biographies. Author of twelve books, articles in scientific journals, such as Public Understanding of Science, Rural History, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, European Societies, AGER, Continuity and Change, and over 5.000 articles, book chapters and dictionary entries available online. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5583-3099