Tiago Brandão holds a PhD in History from NOVA University of Lisbon, and he is a scholar and integrated researcher at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (NOVA-FCSH). A historian by formation, he actively publishes on STI - Science, Technology, and Innovation fields, mainly institutional and intellectual histories. Co-Coordinator of the Research Group 'História, Territórios e Comunidades' (HTC), pole at NOVA FCSH of the Center for Functional Ecology - CFE (University of Coimbra). Professor at the Post-Graduation in Management and Policies of Science and Technology (NOVA-FCSH). He is also Managing Editor of NOvation, an INRS (Montreal, Canada) journal dedicated to innovation's critical studies. He has been publishing widely, from books, chapters, and peer-reviewed articles, including international journals like Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Análise Social, Manguinhos, Ler História, among others. His contribution reframes STI frameworks' views and political appropriation, giving particular interest to the Global South, deconstructing the normative and systemic accounts widely disseminated by the hegemonic influence of the innovation studies field. In sum, besides his empirical and recognized contribution to the history of Portuguese science policies and institutions, Brandão brings to the political economy debate on contemporary ST&I a wide array of interests, from the history of STI ideas and its classical authors passing through the Iberoamerican World institutional trajectories regarding the institutionalization of STI policies as well as its identities and traditions of thought.
