António Baião is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the University of Minho. He earned a M.A. in Philosophy (speciality: Political Philosophy) and a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations at the Nova University Lisbon. Additionally, he studied as an Erasmus student at the University of Pisa.

After a period of research at the Nova University Lisbon, where he focused on anarchism in Portugal, he began to analyse contemporary anarchist discourses. His current PhD project is entitled “Anarcheology of power: an analysis of anarchist resistance” and has been funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT). He is a researcher at the Centre for Ethics, Politics and Society and, since 2022, he is also an Invited Assistant at the Department of Philosophy in the University of Minho, where he teaches Political Philosophy, History of Political and Social Ideas, and Modern Philosophy.