Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University in Braga, where he teaches Ethics and Anthropology. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Porto, where he is a member of the Aesthetics, Politics and Knowledge research group.

With a PhD in Philosophy - Ethics and Politics from the University of Coimbra (2012), he has focused much of his work on the study of melancholy and the constitution of the therapeutic medium.

His recent publications include the Rosenzweig Jahrbuch XIII: Transzendenz und Offenbarung (Karl Alber, 2023) and Memory, Trauma and Narratives of the 'self': An Interdisciplinary Approach (Edward Elgar, 2024), as well as the monograph Robert Burton on the Melancholic Plague: Social, Political and Economic Bases of Therapy (The Ethics Press, 2024).