Ana Pinto Martinho is the online editor of the European Journalism Observatory (EJO) in Portuguese and is a guest lecturer at ISCTE-IUL. She is also a researcher at OberCom – Communication Observatory and a research assistant at CIES-IUL. She is linked to several European research projects such as Newsreel, CoMMPASS, IBERIFIER and Algowatch, and is part of the Portuguese team that works on the Digital News Report, at the Reuters Institute for the Sutdy of Journalism, at the University of Oxford. She participates in studies by the EJO network, such as the study on European media coverage of migration issues. Her areas of research have focused on journalism practices, media changes brought about by the internet, issues of trust in journalism, algorithmic literacy, and lately issues linked to journalism and artificial intelligence As a journalist she directed the iGOV project, a media outlet dedicated to the areas of public administration, Government, eGovernment, open data and citizenship. She was also a journalist at the Portuguese edition of InformationWeek, director of the publication Interface – Administração Pública and worked for social media outlets such as Diário de Notícias, Semanário Sol, and then RTP Informação. She is currently working on her PhD, in Communication Sciences, at ISCTE. She has a Master's degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies (ISCTE) and a Degree in Social Communication (UBI).

 Ana Maria Belchior is an associate professor, with aggregation, in the Department of Political Science and Public Policies at ISCTE-IUL (Instituto Universitário de Lisboa) in Lisbon, and senior researcher at CIES-IUL. She is currently the coordinator of the Master in Political Science, both at ISCTE-IUL. She has been involved in research on several projects related to the themes of democracy and globalization, political participation, democratic representation, political congruence, and electoral pledges and decision-making. She has published her findings in books and book chapters, and in diverse national and international journals (eg. Comparative Political Studies, International Political Science Review, Party Politics, Sociological Methods & Research, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, or The Journal of Legislative Studies).  

Sofia Ferro Santos is a PhD Candidate at ISCTE-IUL, in Communication Sciences researching on the topic "Political Communication in Twitter: Filter Bubbles or public communication channel". She is also collaborating on the European Project EUMEPLAT - European Media Platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European Culture (Funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020; Grant No 101004488) and have worked before on IBERIFIER - Iberian Media Research and Fact-Checking (Funded by European Comission in the scope of CEF-TC-2020-2 - European Digital Media Observatory; Reference 2020-EU-IA-0252) Previously, Sofia has worked in strategic advisory for Hiscox at an European level and for everis (currently NTT Data). Sofia Ferro Santos holds an International Master in Management degree from Nova School of Business & Economics and a Post-graduation degree in Advisory in Communication and Politics from ISCTE-IUL.  

André Freire is Full Professor in Political Science, and has been serving as Director of the Doctoral Programme in Political Sicence (& IR),  2015-present date, and served as Director of the Bachelor in Political Science, 2009-2015, Departament of Political Science & Public Policies - School of Sociology & Public Policies, at ISCTE-IUL (University Institute of Lisbon). He is also senior researcher at CIES-IUL (Centre for Sociological Studies and Research). He has been teaching and researching at ISCTE-IUL since 1996. Additionally, Freire has presented conferences and taught in several other national and foreign universitarian and research institutions.    He has reserched (in national and international projects) and published widely (books, book chapters, and journal articles), on several languages, about political representation, political institutions, ideology and mass’ and elite’s attitudes and behaviour. He has several studies published (nationally and internationally), in academic journals, books and book chapters, on the attitudes and behaviors of voters and political representatives, political institutions, political representation and political elites. Throughout his career, and until mid-2020, André Freire published about 38 books as editor and/or as author, accounting for more than 100 chapters of books published and more than 100 articles published in national and international journals, with peer evaluation.    Freire pioneered the creation of electoral studies (Portuguese National Electoral Study, based on post-election opinion surveys), in Portugal, in 2002 and 2005 (see:https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/eleicoes-legislativas-de-2002 & https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/portugal-votos & https://rowman.com/isbn/9780739115633/portugal-at-the-polls-in-2002).     Since 2007, he has directed several research projects on political representation, that is, comparing the opinions, values, attitudes and behaviour of both voters and political representatives (MPs and non-elected candidates to the Portuguese Parliament), from 2007 to this date (see:http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/).   In terms of international research networks, he has participated in several, notably in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems, European Value Study, European Election Study, True European Voter, European Candidate Study, PARTIREP – Party Representation, PARENEL – Parliamentary Representation at the National and European Levels, Comparative Candidate Study. He is member of the Steering Committee of the Comparative Candidate Study for three terms now (he is currently serving in his third term). See http://www.comparativecandidates.org/   He was a regular columnist in the Portuguese Press for the newspaper Público, between 2006 and 2016, and is currently a regular columnist for Jornal de Letras,2017-present date. He is also a political commentator also on televisions (RTP, TVI and SIC), radios (Antena 1, TSF, etc.) and newspapers (DN, Expresso, Jornal I, Económico, Jornal de Negócios, etc.).    Freire has also been an expert and guest consultant of several national (FCT, A3ES, DGAI-MAI, AR, etc.) and international (COST, European Commission, Council of Europe – Co-Acte Programme, etc.) agencies and institutions for matters related to higher education and research in Political Science.   Mos recent book: André Freire, Left and Right. Meaning and Correlates in Long Consolidated and New Democracies, Moldova, Eliva Press 2022. Being sold at Amazon (US, UK, DE, FR, ES) and the publisher:  https://www.elivapress.com/en/book/book-9980623390 Most recent Special Issue at SES&P as Guest Editor:   Emmanouil Tsatsanis, Marco Lisi & André Freire (2022) The ‘Lost Generation’ and Its Political Discontents: Age-related Divides in Southern Europe after the Crisis, South European Society and Politics, DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2021.2032936 (Introduction plus 5  research articles) (2021 versão impressa; 2022: 1st online)   E-mail: andre.freire@iscte-iul.pt Orcid author: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-6832 Scopus author: Author ID: 8634830500 Google scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=RNJvJdIAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT Wikipédia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Freire       Useful links: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andre_Freire5 https://iscte-iul.academia.edu/Freire/CurriculumVitae https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-6832 https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=RNJvJdIAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/ http://www.comparativecandidates.org/ http://avacavoadora.pt/ https://visao.sapo.pt/jornaldeletras/   Post scriptum about copyright issues:  The text of this webpage with my CV is available for modification and reuse under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share alike 3.0 Unreported License and the GNU Free Documentation License (unversioned, with no invariant sections, front-cover texts, or back-cover texts)

Gustavo Cardoso is Full Professor of Sociology of Communication at ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and a researcher at CIES. He is also an associate researcher at CADIS (Center d'Analyze et d'Interventions Sociologiques) in Paris and Director of OberCom - Observatório dos Meios de Comunicação Social in Lisbon. He is currently the director of the PhD in Communication Sciences and of three post-graduate programs in Communication at ISCTE-IUL, namely the Post-Graduate program in Journalism, the Post-Graduate program in Factchecking and disinformation, and the Post-Graduate program in Communication and Politics.  From 1996 to 2006, he was advisor to the President of the Portuguese Republic, Jorge Sampaio, for Information Society and Telecommunications policy. From 2006-2012, he was non-executive Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Portuguese news agency Lusa. In 2006 he was awarded the degree of "Grande Oficial da Ordem do Infante D. Henrique" for relevant services rendered to Portugal. In 2009 he was elected as Young Global Leader of the WEF and in 2018 he was proposed to be a member of the Academia Europaea where he holds the position of member of the Cinema, media and visual studies section. He has a degree in Business Organization and Management, a Master in European Studies and a PhD in Sociology of Communication. He also holds a specialization in "Global Leadership and Public Policy for the 21st Century" from the Harvard Kennedy School.

José Santana Pereira (Nisa, 1982) is a doctor of Political and Social Sciences (EUI, Florence, 2012). José's research has been focused on the media effects on public opinion and the study of media systems in comparative perspective. His research interests also include electoral behavior and political attitudes (namely attitudes towards Europe and, more recently, populist attitudes). He published several papers and book chapters in English, Portuguese and French. In January 2016 José published the essay Política e Entretenimento. After the B.A. in Social Psychology (ISCTE, 2004) and before becoming a PhD researcher at the EUI (2008), José worked as research assistant in the project «Portuguese Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes» (ICS), which carried out the National Election Studies in Portugal. Between 2013 and 2017 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. During and after the PhD, he collaborated in research projects such as the «EU Profiler» (implementation of a voting advice application during the 2009 European election campaign) and the «Media Profiler» (design of an online platform for the comparative analysis of the media in the EU), both hosted by the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS). More recently, he was co-leader of the Portuguese team working at the «EUandI» project, researcher at the «Participation in the EU decision-making: Portugal in comparative perspective» project and leader of the Portuguese team in the project «Where is My Party?». He is currently one of the researchers in charge of the projects «Media Systems in Europe» and «Mechanisms and Impacts of Abstention in Portugal», sponsored by FFMS. José is also the country coordinator for Italy in the project Varieties of Democracy and one of the researchers in charge of the ICS-ISCTE opinion polls. 

Susana Santos is a Research Fellow at CIES-IUL and an invited assistant at the Department of Sociology, ISCTE-IUL. She holds a PhD from ISCTE-IUL (2012). In the present, she is working on her Post-doc project about young business lawyers in national and international large law firms, focused on studying the impacts of economic globalization on young law professionals.  Her research interests include:  the study of transnational elites and young high-skilled professional trajectories. On a broader perspective Sociology of Law, and the intersection of Sociology of Law with Sociology of Professions, Organizations and Work. At a teaching level she focuses her attention on Political Communication, more specifically the formation of public spheres in different type of contexts, like digital public forums, helping students at masters’ level to develop their research projects and dissertations. Since 2002, she is a researcher at CIES-IUL working in several research projects in the fields of Sociology of Communication, Political Sociology and Sociology of Law.