Bernardo Bianchi is a research fellow at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin and the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Alexander von Humboldt-funded project "Paradoxes of Emancipation," a collaborative initiative with the University of São Paulo, where he is also a Visiting Professor. He lectures at FUBiS (Freie Universität Berlin International Summer and Winter University), offering courses on topics such as German philosophy. Bernardo holds a dual doctoral degree (doctorat en co-tutelle) in Political Science from the Institute of Social and Political Studies (IESP) at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and in Philosophy from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, completed in 2015—for which he received the highest distinction, summa cum laude. His main research interests include Political Philosophy and Contemporary Political Theory, with a focus on the epistemic crisis and decolonial ecology. Bernardo has authored numerous articles and co-edited books published by Routledge and ICI Berlin Press, with others forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press and Suhrkamp. He is also the author of "Marx and Spinoza: The Red Thread of Transformation," published in Portuguese by Editora PUC-Rio.