Hugo Leal

Hugo Leal is a Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy.

Hugo first came to the University of Cambridge to CRASSH, to work as a postdoctoral fellow in the internet branch of the project  Conspiracy and Democracy and then moved to Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) where he was a methods fellow and coordinator of the Cambridge Data Schools.

Previously, Hugo was at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, where he completed his PhD. He also holds a Masters in International Relations from the University of Lisbon with a dissertation on complexity theory and new social movements.

Hugo is a CDH Associate and a member of the Steering Committee of the Cambridge Infectious Diseases Research Centre, the Association of Internet Researchers and the Centre of Social Movement Studies (COSMOS)