Ricardo Barroso Batista is a visiting assistant professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Portuguese Catholic University (UCP). He studied Mechanical Engineering and graduated in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy at UCP, where he distinguished himself by completing the course with the highest average and was awarded the St Ignatius of Loyola Prize in 2012. He works as a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH), where he participates in the research groups on ‘Causal Processes, Complex Systems and Emergentism’ and ‘Ontological Foundations of Human Nature’. His research is dedicated to Metaphysics, covering the Analytic and Thomist currents, with an emphasis on the Principle of Sufficient Reason, the principles of ontological dependence and causality (via Metaphysical Grounding), as well as the concepts of contingency and necessity from the perspective of metaphysical foundationalism, connecting them with contemporary cosmological arguments.

Since 2013, he has been the Editorial Manager at Axioma - Publicações da Faculdade de Filosofia, and is the secretary of Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia. He is involved in various editorial projects on scientific and academic platforms.