Experience

Geneva Graduate Institute

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Faculty Lead

  • Sep 2023 - Present

  Applied Research Projects, Master in International and Development StudiesLeading recruitment, partnership building, supervision and mentoring of MA students applied consultancy work for International Organizations and INGOs on SDG-related societal impactgoals.

• Academic Supervisor

  • Feb 2019 - Present

  Applied Research Projects, Master in International and Development Studies"Mobilities, Migrations and Boundaries" Specialisation

• Senior Research Fellow

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Principal Investigator for the Project "Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis", Starting Grant Programme, European Research Council (ERC–2017–STG, EUR 1’500’000)

• Visiting Professor

  • Feb 2023 - Jul 2023

• Lecturer

  • Jul 2014 - Jul 2023

  MA Anthropology and Sociology. Courses taught: Ethnographic Writing (2023); Critical Perspectives on Migration: Mobilities, Borders, and Transnational Connections (2021); Anthropology and Tourism: Encounters through Difference and Inequality (2021); Of Good and Evil: an Anthropology of Ethics and Local Moralities (2020); Anthropology of Tourism (2016, 2019); The Politics of Culture, Identity, and Heritage (2018)

• Research Fellow

  • Jul 2014 - Jun 2017

  Principal Investigator for the Project "The Transformation of Intimate and Economic Lives in Cuban Tourism and Migration", Ambizione Program, Swiss National Science Foundation (CHF 424’610).Principal Investigator (2015–2016) for the Project "Towards an Anthropological Approach to Tourism in the Cusco Region, Peru: Institutional Cooperation and Partnership", Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), Seed Money Grant program (CHF 25’000).



Global Migration Centre

• Switzerland
• International Affairs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Research Fellow

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Principal Investigator for the project "Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis", Starting Grant Programme, European Research Council (ERC–2017–STG, EUR 1’500’000) Principal Investigator for the project "Returning to a Better Place: The (Re)assessment of the ‘Good Life’ in Times of Crisis", Starting Grant Programme, European Research Council (ERC–2017–STG, EUR 1’500’000)



CRIA Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Researcher

  • Jul 2014 - Present



Instituto Cubano de Antropología

• Cuba
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Instructor

  • 2022 - 2022

  Postgraduate Programme in Anthropology Postgraduate Programme in Anthropology



University of Bern

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Researcher

  • 2017 - 2021

  Research associate for the project "Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Mobilities and Imaginaries of Freedom", Swiss National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator Prof. Sabine Strasser Research associate for the project "Trapped in Paradise: Entangled Mobilities and Imaginaries of Freedom", Swiss National Science Foundation, Principal Investigator Prof. Sabine Strasser



ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Associate Researcher

  • 2016 - 2019

  Research Associate for the project "Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction: Financial Transformations in Post2008 Europe", Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Principal Investigator Dr. Daniel Seabra Lopes. Research Associate for the project "Finance Beyond Fact and Fiction: Financial Transformations in Post2008 Europe", Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, Principal Investigator Dr. Daniel Seabra Lopes.



University of Lausanne - UNIL

• Switzerland
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • 2017 - 2017



Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • 2017 - 2017



EHL

• Switzerland
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer

  • 2014 - 2016



Universidade Europeia

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Lecturer

  • 2014 - 2014



ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor

  • 2012 - 2014

  Grundtvig Training Activity, European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme (3 Editions) "Sexuality and Morality: Intercultural Perspectives and Mediations" Grundtvig Training Activity, European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme (3 Editions) "Sexuality and Morality: Intercultural Perspectives and Mediations"



CRIA Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Postdoctoral Researcher

  • 2010 - 2014



Universidade Nova de Lisboa

• Portugal
• Higher Education
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Instructor

  • 2012 - 2012



Leeds Beckett University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Jan 2010 - Jun 2010

  Research Associate and Consultant for the Project "York Renaissance - Economic and Visioning Masterplanning". Cultural Policy and Planning Unit, Leeds Metropolitan University & Yorkshire Forward Regional Development Agency. Research Associate and Consultant for the Project "York Renaissance - Economic and Visioning Masterplanning". Cultural Policy and Planning Unit, Leeds Metropolitan University & Yorkshire Forward Regional Development Agency.



Leeds Beckett University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Candidate

  • 2006 - 2009



Sheffield Hallam University

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• PHD Candidate

  • 2005 - 2006