He is currently an integrated researcher at the Center for International Studies (CEI-IUL) of ISCTE-IUL and an invited professor at Lusófona University (Lisbon, Portugal). He was born in Italy, in the city of Padua, in 1974. In 2001 he graduated in Political Science with a specialization in political history at the Università degli Studi di Padova. In 2008 he got a doctorate at the ISCTE-IUL (Portugal) with a thesis on the far right at the end of the Salazarist authoritarian regime. His research fields are right-wing radicalism (political thought, parties and movements) and the relations between States and radical organizations in contemporary Europe. He was PI of the NEAR project granted by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) between 2018-2022. He was a scholarship researcher at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2015) working on the Portuguese radical right during the transition to democracy.
He began his academic career at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-UL) on the topics of the radical right at the end of the Portuguese authoritarian regime and during the democratic period in a comparative perspective (2008-2014). In this context, he was a visiting researcher at the Pablo de Olavide University of Seville (Spain, 2007) and the University of California, Berkeley (United States, 2008). He taught undergraduate and master’s degree courses at the European University (Portugal, 2010-2014), ISCTE-IUL (2016-2020), and Lusofona University (2021 onward) in the fields of research methods, social movements, nationalism, and populism. He participated in the international projects “Iberian Democratic Transitions: Portugal and Spain in Compared Perspective”, coordinated by Professor António Costa Pinto, ICS-UL, (Portugal) and “Internationalisation des droites radicales Europe/Amériques (IDREA)”, coordinated by Professor Olivier Dard, University of Metz (France, 2012-2015), and since 2014 he is member of the executive committee of the international research network “Right-wings, History and Memory”.