José Neves is assistant professor in NOVA-FCSH and researcher in IN2PAST (Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation on Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory), where he is the current Vice-President, and in Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC), which he coordinated untill September 2023. He graduated in Modern and Contemporary History at ISCTE-IUL (2001), where he also did a PhD in History (2008). In 2008-2009, he was a postdoc researcher at Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa, funded by FCT. In 2011, he was selected by King's College London to be that year's Camões Visiting Scholar, and he joined the staff of NOVA-FCSH as an assistant professor in the History Department. In 2018, he received a British Academy Visiting Fellowship and was a visiting researcher in Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a member of the Réseaux de Chercheurs du CRIMIC, Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and he has presented his work at academic conferences and seminars all over the world: Coimbra, Porto, London, Madrid, Manchester, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Rio de Janeiro, Copenhagen, Buenos Aires, St Petersburg, Gothenburg, Florence, etc. He is the author of ¿Comunismo e Nacionalismo em Portugal ¿ Política, Cultura e História no Século XX¿ (Lisbon, Tinta-da-china, 2008 [2010]), a book for which he received three prizes, the most prominent being the ¿2010 Prémio A. Sedas Nunes Ciências Sociais¿, distinguishing the best book published by a Portuguese social scientist in the previous three years. More recently, he authored the book ¿1998 ¿ o ano da Expo¿ (Tinta-da-china/Público, 2019). Already in 2023 he authored, with Leonor Pires Martins, "Cabral Ka Mori - Catálogo de uma Exposição" (Comissão Nacional para Comemoração dos 50 Anos do 25 de Abril) and he co-edited "O Mundo de Amílcar Cabral" (Público, 2023). He was the founder and director of the journal "Práticas da História - Journal on Theory Historiography and Uses of the Past" from 2015 to 2019 and he remains an active member of its editorial board. He was also assistant director of the journal "Análise Social" (2011-2014). He has edited/co-edited 11 books, most of them on late modern and contemporary Portuguese history. He has also written 14 articles published in national and international peer-reviewed journals as well as 36 chapters in national and international edited volumes. He was the Principal Investigator of the research project "The Making of State Power in Portugal: Institutionalization Processes from 1890 to 1986¿ (2010-2013), funded by FCT (70000¿), heading a team of 12 researchers. This project produced 13 articles and 3 books. NOVA-FCSH and the IHC were the hosts of the project, and both Universidad Complutense de Madrid and Birkbeck College, University of London, were institutional partners. In recent years, José Neves has been a member of FCT¿s selection panels concerning national calls for PhD grants and research contracts. He has also supervised 4 concluded postdoc projects, 6 concluded PhD dissertations and 21 concluded Master theses in the fields of political thought, intellectual history, nationalism studies, social movements, anti-colonialism and governmentality studies. With Leonor Pires Martins, he was the scientif curator of the exhibition "Amílcar Cabral" (Lisboa, 2023; Bissau, 2023), promoted by the Comissão Nacional para a Comemoração dos 50 Anos do 25 de Abril.