Rui is an Associate Professor in Economics and the Senior Academic Advisor for the School of Economics. He received his PhD from the University of Milan and previously worked at UCL, University College Cork, and Queen Mary University of London. 

He is an economist interested in the role of incentives and institutions in shaping individual and public decision-making and knowledge production. As such, he is primarily interested in topics within Political Economy, Institutional Economics, Economics of Science, and Economic Methodology. More information can be found at https://ruimcsilva.wixsite.com/rrsilva.

Political Economy; Public Choice; Populism; Economics of Democracy; Voting; Institutions; Decision-Making; Well-Being; Economics of Science; Philosophy of Science; Economic Methodology.