João Tiago Gaspar leads the research & science communication team at the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation (since 2019) and is the editor of the Foundation’s Abstracts Collection (Resumos da Fundação). In 2021, he was a teaching assistant of History of International Relations at NOVA FCSH, having accumulated this position with his duties at the Foundation. Before joining the FFMS in 2016, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, working in the 2015 Portuguese Electoral Study. He graduated in Political Science and obtained a master’s degree in Governance, Leadership and Democracy Studies at the Portuguese Catholic University, where he is working on his PhD in Political Science and International Relations. He was an exchange student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a visiting student at Lincoln College, University of Oxford.

Last updated: August 2022