Dr. Helder Mendes Baiao (University of Lausanne) achieved a PhD in Switzerland at University of Lausanne under Professor François Rosset’s supervision. His PhD is entitled Citizen Dreams. Myths and Utopias in the 18th-Century French-speaking Switzerland. During 2015-2016, Dr. Mendes Baiao was a Research Fellow at University of Durham (UK) where he worked under Dr. Thomas Wynn’s supervision for the Voltaire Foundation. He has just started a postdoc research at University of Porto (Portugal) entitled Presence of Portugal in 18th-Century French literature. His fields of research are related to utopian thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the history of the Imaginary