Michele Grigolo is FCT post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) of the Unversity of Coimbra. He holds a PhD in Social and Political Sciences gained at the European University Institute (EUI) and the European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation. His research and teaching interests concentrate on the politics, sociology and law of human rights, equality and non-discrimination, and on social and urban policy. At CES, Michele Grigolo is developing some articles and his first monograph based on his PhD on human rights and cities. He published in the European Journal of International Law, the International Journal of Human Rights and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Michele Grigolo has an international research experience. Between November and December 2011 he was visiting fellow in the US. In 2010 he was visting fellow at the Institute of Government and Public Policies of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. During his doctorate, he was exchange student at NYU Robert Wagner School for Public Service. In 2003, he was awarded the Robert Schuman Scholarship of the European Parliament, which he spent at the DG Research in Luxembourg. In 2002, he spent five months at the Danish Centre for Human Rights to complete his master's thesis.

He has worked as researcher and teacher. Between 2008 and 2009 he was academic assistant at the EUI Max Weber Programme. In 2009, he collaborated to a project funded by the European Parliament on mainstreaming human rights in EU external relations. Previously, he worked on a project funded by the EU Council of Regions on local and regional governments. He taught European Social Policy for the MA in European Studies at James Madison University in Florence. He gave lectures and ran seminars in Italian and Spanish universities.