Biography

Ana Cordeiro Santos is an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra, where she is member of the Thematic Line (Semi)Peripheral Capitalism: Crises and Alternatives. She has a PhD in Economics and Philosophy from the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands), a Master's in Economics and Social Policy from the University of Roskilde (Denmark) and a degree in Economics from the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) of the University of Lisbon (Portugal). Between 1996 and 2008, she was an Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL, where she taught on the Economics degree programme. Since then, she has been devoted to research, focusing on the processes of financialisation of the Portuguese economy and society, with a special focus on housing. Her most recent publications include the book Financialisation in the European Periphery: Work and Social Reproduction in Portugal, London: Routledge, 2021 (organised with Nuno Teles); and the articles 'Conceptualising state financialisation: from the core to the periphery', New Political Economy, 2023, and 'Peripheral housing rentierisation in Southern Europe: reflections from the Portuguese case', Housing Studies, 2024. She has also held various institutional positions, including the Board of the Portuguese Political Economy Association (2018-2021). She is currently a member of the Permanent External Scientific Advisory Committee of Dinâmia'CET-Iscte and President of the Scientific Council of CES.