Associate Professor with Agrégation / Habilitation, Head of the Doctoral Program in Political Science, 2015-present date, and Head of the Bachelor Degree in Political Science, 2009-2015, all at ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon University Institute). He is also senior researcher at CIES-IUL (Center for Studies and Research in Sociology). Freire’s research interests include electoral behavior, political attitudes, political institutions, political elites and political representation. Freire has been coordinator and researcher in several research projects (national and international) related to those (and other) research topics, whether in the CIES-IUL, or in other institutions. In terms of international research networks, he has been participating in several (CSES, CCS, PARTIREP, PARENEL, EES, among others). See for example here: http://er.cies.iscte-iul.pt/ Freire has published (in different languages) several books, book chapters, and papers in academic journals. See here https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/public/person/arlf  & http://www.cies.iscte.pt/np4/?newsId=474&fileName=CV_English_January_201...