Biography

Feminist, mother and Auxiliary Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra (CES-UC), where she co-coordinates the Observatory on Masculinities and coordinates several national and international projects on masculinities and gender violence prevention (KINDER, X-MEN, among others) with a relevant impact in the production of contributions to programs and public policies on gender equality and masculinities in Portugal and in the European context. She co-coordinates the UPEA-CES and is a member of the Permanent Commission of the Scientific Committee of CES. She is a lecturer of the discipline "International Relations, Feminisms and Masculinities" at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra since September 2021, Associate Director of the Maria and João Aleixo Institute/UniPeriferias (Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) since March 2018 and Senior Fellow of Equimundo: Center for Masculinities and Social Justice (Washington DC, USA). Between 2019 and 2021 she was co-coordinator of the Humanities, Migrations and Peace Studies Group (NHUMEP-CES), and between 2011 and 2019 she was the Executive Director of Instituto Promundo (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). In the last fifteen years, she has coordinated projects on masculinities, caregiving, violence and trajectories of non-violence in peripheral contexts, particularly in Latin America and Europe. Member of the MenEngage Global Alliance, co-founder and co-coordinator of the MenEngage Iberia Network since 2018, she also integrates the Promundo-US Fellowship Committee since 2021. She holds a PhD in Peace, Conflicts and Democracy from the University Jaume I, Spain, a Master's degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from the same Faculty. Her research interests focus on issues related to feminism in International Relations, masculinities, urban violence and newest wars. She is the author of a vast set of scientific publications, from which we highlight, more recently, "Power from the peripheries: Arts, cultures of equality and southern perspectives" (2021; in Suzanne Clisby, Mark Johnson & Jimmy Turner (eds. ), Theorising Cultures of Equality. London, UK: Routledge) and "Societal Violence and Masculinities: understanding linkages in and outside of wars" (2022; in Untapped Power: Leveraging Diversity and Inclusion for Conflict Resolution and Development, edited by Koppell, Carla. New York: Oxford University Press).