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1 PERSONAL INFORMATION CV (last update: 19 th March 2017) Martín Portos García Spanish citizen Born 30 th March 1989, A Coruña (28 years-old) CURRENT POSITION - Research Fellow at COSMOS & Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Scuola Normale Superiore. o Project: LIVEWHAT. Living with hard Times. Citizens Resilience in Times of Crisis, EU 7th Framework Programme, Grant Agreement N PI: Marco Giugni (University of Geneva). Team Leader: Lorenzo Bosi (SNS). o Project Mobilizing for Democracy: Democratization processes and the mobilization of civil society. D. della Porta s ERC Advanced Grant, EUI & SNS. Grant /2014 present. EDUCATION: COMPLETED STUDIES - Honours Degree (Grado con Premio Extraordinario, 240 ECTS credits) in Politics and Public Management. Cum Laude. First in the cohort (valedictorian) and best regional and national performance in all disciplines. Average grade: 9.945/10.0 and 3.98/4.00. University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 10/ / MSc in Politics Research (Comparative Government), University of Oxford. Supervisor: Prof. David Rueda (Merton College). College advisor: Prof. Stephen Whitefield (Pembroke College). 10/ / MRes in Political and Social Sciences, European University Institute. Supervisor: Prof. Donatella della Porta, 09/ / PhD in Political and Social Sciences (07/2013-present), European University Institute, Florence, Italy. Defense date: 17 February o Committee: Donatella della Porta (supervisor); Hanspeter Kriesi (second reader, president); Robert M. Fishman (Madrid s Carlos III University); Eva Anduiza (Univesitat Autònoma de Barcelona). VISITING RESEARCH STAGES - Institute of Social Sciences Juan March-Carlos III, Madrid, 05-06/2014. Sponsor: Andrew Richards. Funded by MECD: short-term visiting scholarship (3,300 ). - Universitat Pompeu Fabra & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, 04-06/2015. Sponsors: Mariano Torcal (UPF) and Eva Anduiza (UAB). Funded by MECD: short-term visiting scholarship (3,300 ). - University of Wisconsin- Madison, Summer Term Sponsor: Pamela E. Oliver. Funded by EUI: short-term visiting scholarship (3,500 approx.). INDIVIDUAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 1

2 - Grant for Spanish Outstanding Students at university level, Fundación SEUR and Pepe Fuentes Trust, Value: 1,800 p.a., April 2008, 2009, 2010 and Erasmus grant. Full-year exchange student at the University of Westminster (London, United Kingdom). MEC June Postgraduate Fellowship Fundación Caja Madrid, MSc in Politics Research, University of Oxford, Value: 35,000 (approx.). April Linares-Rivas Scholarship, MSc in Politics Research, University of Oxford and Lady Maria Consuelo Allen Trust. Value: 23,000 GBP. May 2011 (declined). - Salvador de Madariaga scholarship, PhD in Political and Social Sciences 09/ /2016, European University Institute, Spanish Ministry of Education, FECyT and EUI, 10/ /2014. Value: 30,000 per annum (approx.). July Fifth Summer Seminar on Sociological and Political Research?, CIS and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA). Director: Prof J. M. de Miguel (UB and UC Berkeley). Coordinator: Prof E. J. Castilla (MIT). Value: 1,000$ US. September 2012 (declined). - DAAD Travel Scholarship to attend the Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences, WZB and BGSS. Berlin. Value: 250. July Individual Fellowship to exploit CIS data resources (Ayuda para la explotación del banco de datos del CIS), Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas. Project coordinator. Value: 6,000. February SNS-LIVEWHAT Travel Scholarship to attend the summer school LIVEWHAT: Living with Hard Times, EU-7th Framework Project. Florence. Value: 500. July EUI Travel grant and mission funding (conferences, fieldwork and summer schools): 1,000-1,800 p.a. 2013, 2014, 2015 & Postgraduate Fellowship Obra Social La Caixa, Visiting researcher, University of Cambridge, 09/ /2017. Value: 30,000 (approx.). March 2016 (declined). - Individual Fellowship for Promising Young Researchers (Ayuda para para investigadores jóvenes prometedores), Fundación Banc Sabadell. Project coordinator. Value: 6,000. June Travel Grant. Eight Annual Young Social Movement Scholars Conference, CSSM, University of Notre Dame. Value: 1,200$. March HONOURS AND AWARDS - Cum Laude Prize (for former Higher Secondary School students). Ministry of Education. Government of Spain. June Extraordinary Prize for incoming students. University of Santiago de Compostela. July Award for Outstanding Final-year Students. Galician Government. 2010/2011. Value: 3, Regional Extraordinary Award. Award to the best academic regional performance, both among those graduated in Politics and also in any degree in the region of Galicia in Regional Ministry of Galicia, June Value: 2,500. 2

3 - 1 st National Extraordinary Award (Primer Premio Nacional a la Excelencia en el Rendimiento Académico Universitario). Award to the best academic national performance in Social Sciences in Spain. Best performance records in all disciplines. Spanish Ministry of Education, March Value: 3, Exchange & Visiting International Student Academic Excellence Award, University of Wisconsin- Madison, September ADDITIONAL RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE - Assistant advisor, Cabinet of the Regional Minister of Presidency, Justice and Public Administration, Regional Ministry of Galicia, Spain. September February o Main duties: advising, speech writing, data gathering, parliamentary activities, public affairs, communication. - Research assistant. Project Amongst Monarchy and Nation. Research Supervisor: Dr M. de Artaza (USC). Director: Prof M. Estrada (UC). Funded by MEC. 10/ / External advisor, Mayor of Boimorto, A Coruña (2011 electoral campaign). Chief campaign officer (2015 electoral campaign): o Main duties: advising, speech writing, resource management, team coordination, manifesto, policy design. - Volunteer, Centro Xuvenil Don Bosco (A Coruña), o Education of youth, with a focus on young people at risk of poverty and social exclusion o Treasurer at Federación de Centros Xuvenís Don Bosco de Galicia, Salvador de Madariaga PhD researcher, EUI, 09/2012-present. - Instructor MA European and International Studies, Monash University, Prato, Fall Lecturer MA Communication, Culture and Digital Citizenship, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spring Founding partner of La Facultad Invisible o Non-profit association devoted to improve the quality of public tertiary education in Spain through debate, research, contact with policy-makers. o It consists of +100 members, who have been awarded the Premio Nacional a la Excelencia en el Rendimiento Académico Universitario. METHODOLOGICAL TRAINING (postgraduate level; detailed) - Course Dynamic Models in Political Economy. Director: Dr. Adam Przeworski (NYU). CEACS, Fundación Juan March. Madrid. 03/ ECPR Summer School in Methods and Techniques, Event History and Survival Analysis, Prof Janez Stare, European Consortium on Political Research and University of Ljubljana, 29/07/ /08/2013 (30 hours). Grade: distinction (10/10). 3

4 - Berlin Summer School in Social Sciences, WZB and Humboldt, Berlín, 07-04/ University of Oxford (MSc): o Research Design in Comparative Politics. Prof David Rueda, 01-03/2012. o Introduction to Quantitative Methods applied to Social Sciences. Dr James Tilley, 10-12/2011. o Intermediate and Advanced Statistics for political scientists. Prof Raymond Duch, 01-06/2012. o Philosophy of the Social Sciences. Dr Liz Frazer, 10/ /2012 o Time-series regression analysis. Dr Yekaterina Chzhen, 04-06/ European University Institute (MRes and PhD): o Seminar: Introduction to Quantitative Methods, Prof Fabrizio Bernardi, 09-12/2012. o Seminar: Introduction to Qualitative Methods, Prof Pepper Culpepper, 09-12/2012. o Workshop: Approaches and Methodologies in the Social Sciences, Prof Donatella della Porta. o Seminar: Methodological Practices in Social Movements Research, Prof Donatella della Porta, 01-03/2013. o Seminar: Research Skills for the World of Big Data with Python, Prof Alexander H Trechsel and Dr Jonathan Bright, 04/2013. o Workshop: Causal Inference, Prof Fabrizio Bernardi and Dr Elias Dinas, 06/2013. o Workshop: Dealing With Missing Data and Multiple Imputation. Prof Fabrizio Bernardi and Dr Raúl Gómez, 06/2013. o Seminar: Event History Analysis I. Continuous-time models, Prof Hans- Peter Blossfeld and Dr Jan Skopek, 10-12/2013. o Seminar: Event History Analysis II. Discrete-time models, Prof Hans- Peter Blossfeld and Dr Jan Skopek, 01-03/2014. o Workshop: Time-series regression analysis, Prof Fabrizio Bernardi and Dr Joergen Boelstad, 06/2014. ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH TRAINING - Course-Award construir unha mirada for the 50 best higher secondary school students from Galicia. UIMP (Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo). September Participant in the Model of United Nations summit (member of the General Assembly), organized by the University of Münster, Germany. March and April, Volcano Symposium, Ashmolean Museum and University of Oxford. Coordinator: Prof. Stephen Whitefield, Mr Maxim Kantor and Dr Jon Whiteley. Oxford (UK), April Workshop Social Movement and the New International Wave of Indignation, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Cursos de Verano El Escorial, 15/07/ /07/2013. Director: Dr Eduardo Romanos. 4

5 - Eight Summer Seminar on Sociological and Political Research?, Spanish Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas and University of Harvard, Cambridge, MA (USA). Director: Prof. Pablo Oñate (UV). Focus on social networks analysis. August EUI Teaching Training Certificate, October INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS [SL= section leader; PC= panel chair; PPG= presenter or paper giver] - (PPG) Talk beyond the rebellion of the indignados: a challenge to representative democracies, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, 05/2012; Nuffield College, University of Oxford, May (PPG) Course O triunfo do saber ou saber para triunfar, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, director: Prof. Jorge Mira, Pazo de Mariñán (Bergondo, A Coruña), August (PPG) Event History Analysis and social movements: the way ahead, EUI seminar Event History Analysis, director: Hans-Peter Blossfeld, April (PPG) Grievances, austerity and mobilization: a troubling relationship, EUI workshop Bringing capitalism back in, director: Donatella della Porta, Alice Mattoni and Philip Balsiger, May (PC & PPG) Panel chair ( The demand side: grievances and the crisis of neoliberal representative democracies ) and paper giver ( Voicing outrage in the streets: effects of socioeconomic and political grievances in extra-institutional participation ), ECPR GSC, Innsbrück, Austria, July (PPG) Social Media and Social Movements, Internet, game theory and networks in the Arab Spring revolts, Laboratory for Internet Studies, Saint Petersburg, September (PPG) Graduate Student Network Conference Grievances for mobilization in Spanish anti-austerity protests, jointly organized by LSE EUI HU CEU SNS UPF HIS SciencesPo, Florence (EUI), March (PPG) Voicing outrage unevenly, Dutch and Flemish Sociological Association, Amsterdam, May (PPG) Differential participation and democratic dissatisfaction, LIVEWHAT summer school, SNS, Florence, July (PPG) European Sociological Association (ESA) Meeting Podemos and antiausterity protests, Prague, August (PPGx2) Mobilizing and Organizing from Below: The Struggle for self- Determination in Catalonia and From the squares to the ballot box. The cycle of protests and anti-austerity protests and Podemos, Movements & Parties conference, SNS, Florence, October (PPG) Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Digging into the nuts and bolts of protest fluctuation in the shadow of austerity, Chicago, April (PPG) Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) Conference, Taking to the Streets in the Context of Austerity: Comparing the Cycles of Protests in Spain and Portugal, , Chicago, April

6 - (PPG) Council for European Studies (CES) Conference When institutional borders blur: the streets taking the institutions. From the 15-M to Podemos, Philadelphia, April (PPG) Invited as country expert for the Democracies in Transition workshop, University of York, April (PC & PPGx2) SGEU ECPR Panel Protest Movements Challenging EU s Handling of the Crisis and Austerity Policies, paper Alliance Building and Eventful Performances: Spanish and Portuguese Trajectories of Mobilization in the Shadow of the Great Recession (with T. Carvalho) and paper Referendum Cycles: Organizing Discontent Outside the Nation-States, Trento, June (PPG) International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology Taking to the Streets in the Context of Austerity: Comparing the Cycles of Protests in Spain and Portugal, , Vienna, July (PPG) Eight Annual Young Social Movement Scholars Conference, CSSM, University of Notre Dame. Unpacking the virtuous circle: aggrieved protesters, eventful protests or both at the same time? Notre Dame, IN, March (PPG) International Conference on Cross-Movement Mobilization, ISA RC47. Alliance Building and eventful performances against austerity: Spanish and Portuguese trajectories of mobilization in the shadow of Great Recession, Bochum, April PUBLICATIONS - Books: o della Porta, D., O Connor, F., Portos, M., Subirats, A Social movements and referendums from below. Direct democracy in the neoliberal crisis (under contract with Policy Press Bristol University Press; see - Chapters in books o Calvo, K., and Portos, M Panic works: Gag Law and the unruly youth in Spain, in M. Grasso and J. Bessant (eds.) Governing Youth Politics in the Age of Surveillance. The Criminalization of Political Dissent. Basingstoke: Routledge (forthcoming). - Articles (peer-reviewed): o Portos, M. and J. Masullo Voicing outrage unevenly. Democratic dissatisfaction, non-participation and frequencies of participation in the 15-M protest campaign [in press; forthcoming in Mobilization 22(2)]. o Álvarez-Pereira, B., Portos, M. and Vourdas, J Waving goodbye? The determinants of autonomism and secessionism in Western Europe, Regional Studies. DOI: / o Portos, M Taking to the streets in the context of austerity: a chronology of the cycle of protests in Spain, , Participation & Conflict, 9 (1):

7 o o Portos, M Movilización social en tiempos de recesión: un Análisis de Eventos de Protesta en España, , Revista Española de Ciencia Política, 41: Calvo, A., de Llano, F. and Portos, M The Problem of Determining the Energy Mix: from the Portfolio Theory to the Reality of Energy Planning in the Spanish Case, European Research Studies Journal, 15: Work in progress & submitted: o Portos, M. and J. Fernández. Moving from the squares to the ballot box. Podemos and the institutionalisation of the cycle of anti-austerity protest (2 nd R&R, Social Movement Studies). o Portos, M. Keeping dissent alive: No-radicalisation and protest in Spain after the eventful 15M/indignados campaign (R&R, Acta Politica). o Portos, M. Voicing outrage, contending with austerity (book proposal). o Bosi, L., Portos, M. and Zamponi, L. Who are the electoral abstainers? Political attitudes and participation in times of crisis in Europe. o Álvarez-Pereira, B. and Portos, M. The infrastructure of revolts: Internet, game theory and complex networks in the Arab Spring. o Calvo, K., and Portos, M. (2017) Carrot and stick: The Spanish Gag Law and the logic of repression in the cycle of protest, o Portos, M. Unpacking the virtuous circle: aggrieved protesters, eventful protests or both at the same time?. - Other publications: o Masullo, J. and Portos, M. (2014) Review essay: Tarrow' Strangers at the Gates, Global Policy ( o Masullo, J. and Portos, M. (2015) Entrevista a Donatella Della Porta: del 15M a Podemos. Resistencia en tiempos de recesión, Encrucijadas, 9: o Portos, M. (2016) Tres mitos sobre las protestas en España, Piedras de Papel, eldiario.es ( 11/07/2016. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE - Co-convener workshop Time-series regression analysis, EUI, 06/2014 (with F. Bernadi and S. Hämäläinen). - Political Sociology section co-leader, ECPR GSC, Innsbrück, 07/2014 (with L. Zamponi and J. Fernández). - Reviewer for West European Politics, 2017-; Political Behavior, 2016-; Mobilization, 2017-; Studi irlandesi, 2017-; Revista Española de Ciencia Política, Network membership: ESA, ECPR, MPSA, CES. RESEARCH INTERESTS 7

8 Comparative Politics, European Politics and democracy, social movements, political participation, mobilization, austerity, nationalism. OTHER SKILLS (languages and computing) - Galician, Spanish: native - English (C2): fluent written and spoken. IELTS 8.0 (overall band score) - Portuguese (C1): fluent written and spoken - French (B2): good written and good spoken - Italian (A2-B1): currently improving - German (A2): currently improving - WINDOWS/Mac-OS Intermediate-advanced user level. Good command of R, SPSS, Stata and MS Office (Excel, Powerpoint, Word, etc.). Prior experience with Latent GOLD, LaTeX, Python. 8

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