Patrícia Alves de Matos is an economic anthropologist trained in Lisbon and London. She is currently a post-doctoral researcher in the project ‘Negotiating Livelihoods under Transformative Politics: crisis, policies and practices in Portugal 2010-2020’, based at CRIA/ISCTE, Lisbon. She is researching the interplay between shifting moral grammars of distribution, social protection and conceptions of human needs during the austerity conjuncture (2011-2014) and the ‘anti-austerity’ political project that followed (2015-2019) in Portugal. Previously, she worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the ERC project ‘Grassroots Economics’ (GRECO) at the University of Barcelona. Her research interests include: neoliberalism, precarity and labour; gender, body politics and social reproduction; austerity welfare, needs and moralities of distribution. Her recent publications include a monograph titled "Disciplined Agency: neoliberal precarity, generational dispossession and call centre labour in Portugal" (2020) which was published by Manchester University Press in July 2020, and the co-authored article, with Antonio Maria Pusceddu, “Austerity, the state and common sense: a comparative study on Portugal and Italy” (2021) published by the journal Anthropological Theory.