Francisco Torres is Associate Professor with Aggregation at the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH) of Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP). He is currently teaching ‘European Integration’ at FCH and ‘The Political Economy European Integration’ at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics.

Previously, he taught at the Department of Economics, FCH/UCP, the National Institute for Public Administration (Professor and Programme Chair) and the University of Aveiro (Visiting Associate Professor) and was Executive and Deputy Director of the European Studies Centre and Institute of UCP, where he also coordinated the Master’s Programme and the Centre’s and Institute’s Research.

His broader area of research and teaching is European Political Economy, the scientific area in which he did is aggregation. He has published 16 books on the Political Economy of European Integration (with Cambridge University Press 1993, UCP Press 1996, 2017, 2022 and 2023, St. Martin’s Press 1988, Principia 2002, EUI Press 2004, 2006 and 2023, INA 2004, Nomos Verlag 2006, Routledge 2016, 2019 and 2025-ongoing, and Edward Elgar 2020) and his research has been published in the area's leading academic journals such as Journal of European Integration, Journal of Common Market Studies (with a top cited article in 2021 and 2022), Journal of Economic Policy, South European Society and Politics, Intereconomics / Review of European Economic Policy, Wirtschaftsdienst, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, among others. He has also contributed to some of the chief handbooks on European political economy, notably Oxford University Press 2012; Palgrave 2013, 2016 and 2017, Routledge 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2019, and Springer 2017 and 2019, and has been been a Guest Editor of various journal special issues (JEI, JEP, PJPS), the Editor of the Research Papers of DEGEI-U. Aveiro, IEE-UCP and INA, and the author/co-author of over 150 articles and book chapters.

He has been European Political Economy Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (5 academic years, 2014-19) and a PEFM Associate and Santander Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford University (2012-20). He has also taught at the University of Victoria (2005), the University of Rome II – Tor Vergata (2008) and King’s College London (2014-19).

He holds an Aggregation in European Political Economy (FCH, Universidade Católica), a Ph.D. in European Political Economy – European Studies-Economics (Católica, Lisbon), an MRes (Mestrado) in Economics (Nova, Lisbon), a Master of Arts in International Affairs (the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), with one semester at Carleton University), and a 5-year degree (licenciatura) also in Economics (Católica, Lisbon).

Furthermore, he was a Researcher of Economics at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (PhD programme, 1986-89), having become the 1st Robert Schuman Fellow of the European Commission at CEPS in Brussels (post-doc fellowship, 1989-91) thereafter, returning later on to the EUI as a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies. He also holds and has held a 1-year post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oxford.

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My broader area of research and teaching is European (and International) Political Economy. My research interests are European integration, institutional change, economic reform in EMU (notably, the role of the ECB and the EP, and national reforms) and EU sustainability and global governance (notably, the ‘green transition’). I have often taken an interdisciplinary and/or cross-disciplinary approach, notably to the analysis of the various crises (global financial, sovereign debt, pandemic, security and energy) and the (sustainability of the) processes of European integration and globalization.