I have a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Aveiro (2021) and am a researcher at the Research Management and Communication Science Hub (REMA) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. My doctoral research project is at the intersection of Political Science and Media Studies, from the perspective of Cultural Studies, on identities, ideology and media and political discourses in Europe. I have a degree in Communication Sciences, specializing in Journalism (2010) from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto, and completed my MSc in Political Science: International Relations at the Graduate School of Social Sciences of the University of Amsterdam in 2013, with the dissertation “The Guarani-Kaiowa and transnational activism: participation of local communities in transnational advocacy networks”. I also have a bachelor's and master's degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto, having presented a dissertation on European Labor Law. I was a journalist at the Público newspaper, a journalism trainee in the Portuguese for Africa newsroom of Deutsche Welle (Bonn, Germany) and a Schuman trainee in the Information Office of the European Parliament (Lisbon), among other professional experiences in the area of Communication. I was also an assistant professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at the University of Aveiro.