* PhD student in “Discourses: Culture, History and Society” at the Center for Social Studies (CES) of the University of Coimbra (UC). * Graziela is developing her research in the areas of contemporary history and sociology under the title “Sculpting Hungarian Illiberal Democracy in stone: the recreation of the past in Kossuth Square since 2010”. Her supervisors are professors Dr. Paula Abreu, from the University of Coimbra (FEUC, Portugal), Dr. Rui Cunha Martins, from the University of Coimbra (FLUC, Portugal), Dr. Péter Apor, from the Eötvös Loránd Research Network (ELKH, Hungary), and Dr. Anna Wessely, from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Hungary). * This research is supported by the FCT: Foundation for Science and Technology with a PhD scholarship - General Application Line (ID 2023.00349.BD) for a period of 48 months from September 2023. During this period, Graziela will work as a junior researcher at the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES - UC). * In 2023, she was awarded a 12-month Erasmus+ Internship grant and was hosted by HUN-REN BTK Történettudományi Intézete, Budapest/Hungary under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Péter Apor. * She holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg - FHV (Austria), a master's degree in Science and Technology Policy and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the State University of Campinas/UNICAMP (Brazil). * Between 2000 and 2019, she worked in corporate finance and lived for part of that time in Budapest (Hungary), close to her current research object. * Since 2019, she has been a researcher at the Laboratory of Technologies and Social Transformations (LABTTS) of the Department of Science and Technology Policy at UNICAMP, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Leda Gitahy (UNICAMP, Brazil). * Since 2020, she has researched topics such as disinformation and the strategies of the far right in Brazil, the political use of monuments in Hungary, language and civil rights in India, among others. * From 2021 to 2023, at the invitation of Prof. Dr. Catarina Isabel Caldeira Martins (FLUC), the researcher was part of the organizing committee of the Gender Workshop Series, which holds monthly cycles of public conversations with feminist activists from Portugal and Galicia. This project is hosted by CES and the doctoral program in Feminist Studies at UC. * As a reviewer of articles to be published, she has collaborated with “The Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Journal Collection”. * Since 2024, Graziela has been a member of the Brazilian Network of Researchers of Sites of Memory and Consciousness. * She has actively built up a solid, interdisciplinary and international network of academic relationships on memory studies, symbolic politics and right-wing populism in the 21st century. * One of the results of his work was the proposal and coordination of the round table “The Challenge of Collective Memory in Twenty-first Century Europe and Latin America: The Legal and Social Battle for the past” at the 7th global meeting of the Law & Society Association (Lisbon, 2022) where the cases of Hungary, Brazil, Argentina and Spain were discussed. * The article that best represents his current field of research and is close to his thesis project is the article “Eclipse of memories and the extreme right: interventions in the Lipótváros neighborhood in Budapest, Hungary”. This work was presented and published in the proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Social Sciences (ANPOCS) in Brazil (2021). * Graziela is co-author of the chapter “`Sex, drugs and communism': far-right narratives about universities in Brazil” in the book “Media narratives: productions and representations of contemporary mythologies” edited by Dr. Christiana Constantopoulou Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Greece) and published by Brill (Netherlands, 2023).