Persons

Tiago Santos Pereira, DPhil in Science and Technology Policy Studies from SPRU, University of Sussex, has been a Coordinating Researcher at the Collaborative Laboratory for Work, Employment and Social Protection - CoLABOR, where he led the research line on the impacts of technology on work and employment. Continuing to collaborate with CoLABOR, he has recently taken up the post of Director of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES), which is one of the associate partners that constituted CoLABOR. His research has also focused on the policies and governance of science and technology and the modes of articulation of knowledge between public sector research, business, public decision making and society. He is Co-Director of the Doctoral Programme 'Governance, Knowledge and Innovation', a partnership between CES and the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra. In 2022, he was nominated member of the National Council on Science, Technology and Innovation (CNCTI).

Franco Tomassoni is a research fellow at the Collaborative Laboratory for Labour, Employment, and Social Protection (CoLABOR) in the research line of labor, employment, technology, and industrial relations. He holds a Ph.D. in Globalization Studies from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at Nova University of Lisbon (UNL). Grounded in the intersection of geopolitics, history, social theory, and macroeconomics, his research explores the relationship between technology, hegemonic transitions, and global markets, with a particular focus on labor dynamics and digitalization. He has developed several research projects on the geopolitics of energy and energy security, on the impact of platformization on labor, and on the political responsibility and accountability of platform and digital companies. He is also a member of the editorial committee of the publisher Outro Modo – Le Monde Diplomatique – Portuguese Edition.

He is an Italian economist, statistician and academic, member of the Club of Rome. Ex Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility and Minister of Labour and Social Policies in Italy.