Flavio is a Brazilian assistant professor of Social Psychology at the University of Groningen. His research primarily focuses on (1) the political psychology of ideological attitudes and their psychological underpinnings; and (2) integrating open science into higher education. Flavio was a research associate at the University of Cambridge Social Decision-Making Lab and a Fulbright fellow at New York University, New York, USA. Flavio held additional postdoc positions at the Saxony’s Center for Criminological Research (ZFKS) and at the Communication Department of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Flavio obtained his Ph.D. in Political Science with a thesis entitled "Ideologies, Ideological Asymmetries, and the Psychological Roots of Political Behavior" at the Center for Comparative Politics of the University of Cologne, a German Excellence Center. Flavio is the principal investigator of The Psychology of Political Behavior Studies (PBBS), a series of studies informing psychological explanations of political attitudes, values, voting, and participation. Flavio Azevedo is a pioneer in developing tools and practices in Open Science and an advocate for a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible Open Science movement. He is a recognized international leader in the field and has received prestigious awards such as the UKRN OS Dorothy Bishop Prize, Hidden-REF, and JISC. Flavio co-founded and directs FORRT—A Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training (forrt.org)—an award-winning, interdisciplinary, and international community of 850+ early-career scholars aiming to integrate open scholarship principles into higher education and to advance research transparency, reproducibility, rigor, and ethics through pedagogical reform and metascience. Flavio won a Fulbright Research Fellowship in 2018, is a winner of the World Economic Forum initiative “Global Shapers,” and was elected one of 'the 100 Most Influential Early Career Researchers' from Portugal in 2020.