Adrián Herranz holds a PhD from Pompeu Fabra University and currently teaches political philosophy at the University of Barcelona. His research interests include republican philosophy, economic democracy and the philosophy of work. He has recently published in international journals such as Res Publica, Social Theory and Practice and European Journal of Political Theory.
Bru Laín is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Barcelona. He has been previously a Postdoc Fellow at the Dpt. of Public Law at the University of Girona (Spain), the CEPS at the University of Minho (Portugal), the Chaire Hoover d'Éthique Économique et Social of the UCLouvain (Belgium), the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics of the University Brighton (UK), and the Karl Polanyi Institute for Political Economy of the Concordia University (Canada). He has also taught at McGill University, Leeds University, ELISAVA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra, and the Universidad Nacional de Ecuador. His work deals with the intersections of social policies and political theory.
Catarina Neves is a Postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University in the Ethics Institute, working in the project Visions for the Future, with Prof. dr. Ingrid Robeyns. She earned a PhD in Philosophy from University of Minho with a thesis on Unconditional Basic Income entitled “Acknowledging the gift: how an unconditional basic income encourages reciprocity”. Her project was funded by FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology in Portugal (reference SFRH/BD/144495/2019). Catarina is also the co-author of a book on basic income experiments - Basic Income Experiments. A Critical Examination of Their Goals, Contexts, and Methods (2022) – published by Palgrave Macmillan.
David Casassas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Barcelona. He has conducted research at the Catholic University of Louvain, the University of Oxford, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His main research areas include Social and Political Theory, History of Thought, Political Economy, Republicanism, Socialism, Basic Income, Democracy, and the Scottish Enlightenment. His latest book published by Pluto Press is titled Unconditional Freedom: Universal Basic Income and Social Power (2024).
Elena Icardi is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS) of the University of Minho. Prior to joining CEPS, she was a research fellow at the University of Pavia. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the University of Milan. During her Ph.D. she also spent a visiting period at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. Her research interests include freedom as non-domination, political equality, and distributive justice. She recently contributed to Robeyns's book Having Too Much: Philosophical Essays on Limitarianism (Open Book Publisher) with a chapter entitled “A Neo-Republican Argument for Limitarianism”.
Hugo Rajão is a researcher in Political Philosophy. In 2017, Hugo Rajão joined CEPS to develop his PhD project in Philosophy, entitled “A abordagem das Capabilities e o Rendimento Básico Incondicional –Uma Defesa de uma métrica da Justiça baseada em Capabilities e de um RBI para as distribuir”. Concludes the PhD in 2022, at School of Letters, Arts and Human Sciences of the University of Minho. Currently, Hugo is a junior researcher at the Center for Ethics, Politics and Society at the University of Minho. His research interests: Distributive justice, political liberalism, basic income, human development, capability approach, workplace democracy
Iñigo González-Ricoy is an associate professor of political philosophy and an ICREA Academia fellow at the University of Barcelona. His research focuses on democracy, work, firms, and intergenerational justice. He is currently working on two books: a monograph on labor-managed firms and a co-edited volume on workplace republicanism.
Leire Rincón is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and a member of the research group DEC. She is currently the IP of the project gender-based violence in equal times. Before this, she was a post-doctoral researcher at the Chair of Political Sociology and Social Policy at Humboldt University in Berlin. Before joining Humboldt, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Barcelona (UB) and IBEI, where she developed her doctoral thesis.
Roberto Merrill is Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Head of Department of Philosophy, at the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Minho, where he also coordinates the MA in Political Philosophy. He is also a researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS), where he coordinates a funded project on UBI (website here: https://ubiexperiments.weebly.com/). He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Research Committee on Political Philosophy of the International Political Science Association. Dr. Merrill research interests within political philosophy include liberal neutrality, perfectionism and value pluralism, as well as contemporary theories of distributive justice. He published in 2019 a book on Rendimento básico incondicional : uma defesa da liberdade . Edições 70. (Prize by the Portuguese Society of Philosophy for best essay in philosophy for 2018-2019) and in 2022 a book on Basic Income Experiments: A Critical Examination of their Goals, Contexts, and Methods, Palgrave Macmillan. He is currently working on a book manuscript on pre-distribution and property-owning democracy.
Tatiana Llaguno is an assistant professor in critical and political theory at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She received her PhD with distinction from the New School for Social Research in New York. Her research areas include post-Kantian philosophy, social and political philosophy, critical theory, feminist theory and political ecology.
Thiago is a PhD candidate at UMinho and a researcher at CEPS. His main topic of study is currently Unconditional Basic Income and its multidisciplinary perspectives. Thiago holds a master’s degree in Political Science (Nova University Lisbon) and a bachelor’s degree in Law (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro). He published the book The Bolsa Família Case: A Path to Unconditional Basic Income, based on his master’s thesis. Thiago was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He moved to Lisbon, Portugal, in 2019 to pursue his postgraduate studies. In 2022, he started his PhD program at UMinho with the research project entitled “The moral, political and ecological value of the UBI: a critical examination of pilot experiences.” His main research interests are Unconditional Basic Income, Post-productivism, Climate Crisis, and Republicanism.