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Renato Lira Brito is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), currently conducting a research stay at the University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE). He holds both a Master’s and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from UFPE, and is also a specialist in Data Science, Higher Education Teaching, and Public Management. He is a visiting researcher at the Center for International Studies at ISCTE and coordinates research in the fields of cybersecurity, public policy, mixed methods, and the fight against human trafficking. He serves as Executive Editor of the journal Política Hoje and is a member of the Interinstitutional Committee to Combat Human Trafficking in Pernambuco (CIETP-PE) and of the Dom Helder Câmara Human Rights Commission at UFPE.

[ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6012-8469]

Ana Cristina C. da Fonseca is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco and a visiting researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra. She holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Federal University of Paraíba and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations from the State University of Paraíba. Ana has worked as a project assistant at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and interned at the Technical Cooperation Section of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She represented Brazil at the IV UNESCO Forum in Paris. She is also a member of the Center for Public Policies and Sustainable Development and an associate member of the Brazilian Political Science Association.

[ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0140-3173]

Carolina Gabriela Dolléans has a master‘s degree in Political Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco. She holds a Licence in Law, Economics, Management and Political Science from the Université Paris Nanterre (2018). Specialist in Data Analysis and Political Thought. She is an associate member of the Brazilian Political Science Association (ABCP). She is a member of the research group Laboratório de Ciência Política Computacional e Experimental (Computational and Experimental Political Science Laboratory) at the Federal University of Pernambuco and the research group Direitas, História e Memória (Rights, History and Memory) at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. She is a member of the Dom Helder Câmara Human Rights Commission – UFPE. Her areas of interest are as follows: Comparative Politics, Data Analysis, Quantitative Methods, Analysis of Text as Data, Human Rights, Comparative Cyber Security and Far-Right Populism.

[ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7690-6720]