Tiago Carvalho is a research fellow in Political Science and Sociology at Scuola Normale in Florence. He holds a PhD is Sociology from the University of Cambridge, with a thesis on the anti-austerity cycle of protest in Portugal and Spain between 2008-2015. In his dissertation, he looked at how the relations between political parties, trade unions and social movements shaped the way the cycle unfolded and subsequently led to the transformation of the political landscape, formation of new political parties and coalition shifts.

Before this Tiago received his BA and MPhil in Sociology from the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL) (2009 and 2011). Before starting his PhD in Cambridge, he worked in several research projects at the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, and the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology at the University Institute of Lisbon. He was also a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the New University of Lisbon.

At Scuola Normale Superiore, Tiago is currently working on “Understanding Populism in time of crisis: causes and consequences”.

Research interests: anti-austerity movements, populism, and European crisis