DANIEL SEABRA LOPES
PROJECT COORDINATOR AND RESEARCHER
Daniel received his PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2007. He works as a researcher at the SOCIUS research centre and is also Assistant Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Economics and Management. He has been developing ethnographic research on retail credit, banking and financial supervision since 2008, as well as publishing in a number of international journals.CONTACT | danielslopes@iseg.ulisboa.pt
INÊS FARIA
RESEARCHER
Inês is a researcher at the SOCIUS research centre at the University of Lisbon School of Economics and Management). Inês has a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam, focusing on reproductive health, reproductive technologies and the therapeutic navigations of Mozambican women and couples in Mozambique and South Africa on quests to overcome their infertility. Since 2016 she has been developing research on money and entrepreneurship in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Her latest work is about both financial uses of blockchain technology and women and financial inclusion development programs. She was involved in the project Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction, which explored financial changes and continuities in Europe after the 2008 crisis, and she is now developing the project Informal Businesses and Informed Financial Creativity: digital microfinance and the financial ecologies of entrepreneurial women in Maputo. In the meantime, Inês continues to explore relations between technology and society in the areas of money, finance, livelihoods and healthcare in European and sub-Saharan African contexts.CONTACT | inesdffaria@gmail.com
SANDRA FAUSTINO COELHO
RESEARCHER
Sandra is a researcher at the SOCIUS research centre (University of Lisbon School of Economics and Management), having received her PhD in Economic Sociology in 2022. Her ethnographic research, developed within the framework of the Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction project, discussed a set of themes and tales found in communities of practice involved in the development of decentralized financial technologies.CONTACT | sandrafcoelho@gmail.com
ANA CORDEIRO SANTOS
RESEARCHER
Ana is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra. She received her PhD in Philosophy and Economics from Erasmus University of Rotterdam (The Netherlands), her Masters in Social Policy from the University of Roskilde (Denmark), and her Bachelor in Economics from the Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal). She works within the fields of philosophy of economics and political economy, and her research topics include market construction, rationality, finance and debt. She has published on those topics in various journals and books.
STEFFEN DALSGAARD
RESEARCHER
Steffen is associate professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in Anthropology and Ethnography from Aarhus University. Since 2002, he has conducted research in the province of Manus, Papua New Guinea, specializing in state and political leadership in the context of tradition and government elections. He has more recently worked on two projects — digitalisation of voting technologies in Denmark, and the introduction of carbon as a global form of economic, moral and semiotic value, which connects humans across spatiotemporal political divides. He has recently published in anthropology and STS-journals such as Ethnos, Journal of Cultural Economy and Valuation Studies.
JOSÉ DIAS LOPES
RESEARCHER
José is an assistant professor at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management of the Lisbon University (ISEG/UL). His research concerns banking regulation, finance, market conduct and market discipline.
VALERIO SIMONI
RESEARCHER
Valerio has an anthropology degree at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2004), and a PhD in social anthropology at Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (2005-2009). He focuses on the economic strategies of disadvantaged Cuban men and women struggling to generate resources at the margins of the formal tourism sector in Cuba. His post-doctoral investigations at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA-IUL, Portugal, 2010-2014) further uncovered the effects of international tourism on the lives, livelihoods, and aspirations of Cuban people. Valerio’s projects have subsequently been oriented in four main directions: the economy and its margins, the transformations of intimacy, the development of moral dispositions, and the politics of mobility. These axes of concern were brought together in his latest project at the Graduate Institute in Geneva (2014-2017), which explored the tourism-migration nexus by focusing on the case of Cubans’ migration to Spain via intimate relationships established with tourists in Cuba.
JOSÉ GONÇALVES PINTO
RESEARCHER
José is a Phd Candidate in the Development Studies Program at ISEG, Ulisboa, with the area of interest linked to the finance of transition, specifically the case of complementary currencies. Invited assistant professor at ISEG, teaches subjects related to management and accounting. Practice as finance consultant in some companies and economist at the Portuguese Securities Market Commission.
RAFAEL MARQUES
RESEARCHER
Rafael is currently assistant professor at ISEG where he teaches undergraduate courses in Sociology and Economic and Financial Sociology, master courses in Business Ethics, Financial Ethics and Ethics of Academic Research and PhD courses in Economic Sociology. During his academic career he also taught courses in Comparative Social Policy, Political Sociology, Organizational Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Introduction to Management, Negotiation and Conflict, and Change Management. He has an MBA and a PhD in Economic Sociology. His main areas of research are Ethics, Moral Sociology, Social Theory, and Economic Sociology. He is finishing two papers on Time and Social Theory: “The Problem of Chronocentrism in Lay and Academic Sociology” and “Uchronian Thinking in Gabriel Tarde’s novels”.