Rodrigo Cruz is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He holds a PhD in Sociology from NOVA University Lisbon and collaborates with both the Ateliêr Genre(s) et Sexualité(s) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences (CICS) at NOVA University Lisbon. His research focuses on social movements and the regulation of disinformation and social media, examining these topics in close dialogue with gender and sexuality studies.