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Rosa Cabecinhas (1965, Leiria, Portugal) had her first migratory experience at the age of five, when she went as “a salto” to France. She studied and worked in various countries. She holds a PhD in Social Psychology of Communication and is professor at the Social Sciences Institute, University of Minho.

She is Principal Investigator of the project “Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures”.

She has been coordinator of the interdisciplinary PhD Program in Cultural Studies (University of Minho) and coordinator of several research projects supported by national or international funds. She was Vice-Chair of the Cost action 1205 “Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged Europe”. She has been visiting scholar at several universities in Europe and around the world, including among others: Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand; Universidade Politécnica and Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique; University of Texas at Austin, USA, Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e, East Timor, among others.

Her research interests focus on intergroup relations, social representations, memory, media, diversity, decoloniality and social change.

She authored the book Preto e Branco. A naturalização da discriminação racial [Black and White. The naturalization of racial discrimination] (2017, 2 ed), and co-edited several volumes, including Cinema, migrations and cultural diversity (2019), Comunicação Intercultural: Perspectivas, Dilemas e Desafios [Intercultural Communication: Perspectives, Dilemmas and Challenges](2017, 2 ed); (In)visibilities. Image and Racism (2020) and Abrir os Gomos do Tempo: Conversas Sobre Cinema em Moçambique (2022).

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Ana Cristina Pereira (aka Kitty Furtado) is a cultural critic committed to blurring the boundaries between academia and the public sphere. She has curated (post)colonial film exhibitions and promoted public discussions on Memory, Racism, and Reparations, being the creator and coordinator of the Reparations Art-Lab (mala voadora, Porto, 2023). Currently, she is a researcher at CECS, where she is developing her project, The Black Gaze (2023.08077.CEECIND), and a visiting professor at FBAUP. She is part of the curatorial team for Portugal’s representation at the 2024 Venice Biennale, where she is the Biomes program curator. Kitty Furtado is an active member of COST Action 19129 – Decolonising Development: Research, Teaching, and Practice (2020-24) and also a member of SOPCOM’s Visual Culture Working Group, which she coordinated from 2019 to 2024, serving in this role as deputy editor of VISTA: Journal of Visual Culture. Among other texts and special issue publications, she co-authored the book Opening the Pods of Time: Conversations on Cinema in Mozambique (2022) with Rosa Cabecinhas.

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Daniel Noversa holds a degree (2014) and a master’s degree (2017) in Sociology from the University of Minho. He is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies and an FCT PhD fellow at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS). Previously, he worked as a research assistant at the Observatory of Science, Communication and Culture Policies (POLObs) of CECS, supporting projects in cultural policies.

In 2020, he was an FCT scholarship holder (ref. 2020.08656.BD) in the National Competition, with the project entitled “Crisis, memory and media: European identity in the public media space”. This study addresses the circulation of visual narratives of Europe in media landscapes and seeks to analyse how cartoonists portray the European Union project in its cultural and political dimensions.

His research interests seek to intersect issues of cultural identities, social memory, visual culture, migrations and intercultural communication.

He is a Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (Sopcom) member and writes for the blog “Margins – Culture, Art and Imaginary”.

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Jacob Lussento Cupata is Doctor in Cultural Studies by University of Minho/Portugal, Master in Intercultural Relations by Universidade Aberta de Lisboa/Portugal and Licenced in Education Science, History Teaching option, by Universidade Agostinho Neto/Angola. Lecturer with the category of Assistant and Head of the Department of Teaching and Research in Social Sciences at the Instituto Superior de Ciências da Educação do Sumbe (ISCED/S), teaching the subjects of African History, Pedagogical Practices and Cultural Anthropology. He is currently a collaborating researcher at the Center for Studies in Communication and Society (CECS) at the University of Minho, part of the project team “MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activism in the Portuguese language: decolonizing mediatic landscapes and imagining alternative futures” and Cultural Studies.
Main research areas: social representations, interculturality, African history, analysis of school textbooks, memory and social identity.

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Luiza Lins is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Communication and Society Studies (CECS), University of Minho. PhD in Social Psychology from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB)/Brazil, Bachelor and Master in Psychology from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS)/Brazil. She did her PhD internship at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM)/Spain, where she developed research activities with the Department of Social Anthropology and Social Psychology. She has developed investigations on intergroup relations, social representations, intersectionalities, prejudice and social identities. She is currently a member of the project team “Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures”.

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Paula Lobo is a Post-Doctoral researcher on the Project ‘Gendered newsmaking: A gender-sensitive exploration of news production and organizations’ developed by Centro de Investigação em Media e Jornalismo and funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia. She holds a PhD in Communication Sciences by Universidade do Minho. She has taught subjects concerning ethics and deontology of the media, media economy and anthropology.

Her work has been published in many national and international articles, conference books and book chapters.

She is member of several scientific associations and has acted as reviewer in national and international publications on Communication and the Media. Her main research interests include media studies, gender, public sphere, citizenship and media literacy.

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She analysed a corpus of documentary films, interviewed the directors and conducted focus groups with high school students, using as stimulus a documentary film. She also interviewed teachers involved in National Cinema Plan activities in high schools and conducted film discussions on behalf of PNC in schools. Her current research critically engages intercultural communication and decolonial perspectives to explore the challenges of contemporary migrations and the representations conveyed by cinema. She was a member of national and international research projects: “Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union” (COST Action IS 1205; 2013-2016); “Memories, cultures, and identities: how the past weighs on the present-day intercultural relations in Mozambique and Portugal?” (CulturesPast&Present, FCT-Aga Khan; 2018-2022); and is a team member of the project “Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures” (MediaMigraActs, FCT, 2022-2026).

Her main publications resulted from interdisciplinary research with a team consolidated through several research projects on memory, identities, social representations, and intercultural relations. She is the Intercultural Communication Group coordinator at the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (Sopcom) and Associate Editor of Vista Journal. She co-edited three books and five journal issues on communication, cinema, cultural memory, migrations, and intercultural relations in the last five years.

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Bruno Mesquita, a 27-year-old digital artist, completed his bachelor’s degree in Digital Arts and Multimedia (2020) at the College of Arts and Design in Matosinhos. Currently, he is expanding his knowledge as a Media Arts master’s student at the University of Minho while working as a Research Fellow (MA) at CECS (Communication and Society Research Centre) – funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), within the scope of the project ‘MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures’

Previously, Bruno worked as a filmmaker and photographer at esad-Idea – research in design and art. His current focus lies in documenting through photography and video, exploring new territories and forms of expression within media arts. Throughout his career, he has collaborated on various projects such as Hands-On type (2021) and Porto Design Biennale – Alter Realities (2021), serving as a photographer, filmmaker, and coordinating photography and video at Porto Design Biennale – Being Water (2023).

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Graduated in Cultural Studies (UMinho) with a year’s mobility at the Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland). During his degree he won two scholarships for excellence and the Almedina Prize. During his master’s degree in Communication, Art and Culture (UMinho), he researched the transition of the Portuguese Hip-Hop movement to the internet. This master’s also included a year of mobility in the Master’s program in Territorialities at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in Brazil. He is currently a PhD student in the Cultural Studies program (UMinho), where he proposes a methodology that combines netnography, data science and perspectivism to analyze cultural objects on the internet. While on an FCT scholarship, this research had a year of mobility in the Linguistics doctoral program, also at UFES.

Professionally, he is involved in marketing and communication data-driven consultancy. He has been a consultant on initiatives such as Krakow UNESCO City of Literature, CTO of three companies in the field of data science and social listening (Brazil-Portugal), awarded prizes at El Sol, IAB Inspirational, short-listed at Cannes, among others.

He has three musical projects (in Rap, in Indie and in Downtempo), has produced music, organized and participated in several compilations, written poetry, among other creative adventures.

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João Sarmento is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the Geography Department, University of Minho, Portugal. He is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre in the same university.

He graduated in Geography from the University of Porto, Portugal (1994), and received his doctorate in Geography from the University College Cork, Ireland (2001). His PhD thesis, Representation, integration and virtual space: Geographies of tourism landscapes in West Cork and the Azores, was awarded the National Prize of Geography Orlando Ribeiro. He obtained his habilitation in Human Geography from the University of Lisbon (2014).

He has published extensively in the fields of Cultural Geography, Colonial / Postcolonial Studies, Tourism Studies and Urban Studies, in journals such as Environment & Planning D., Journal of Historical Geography, Social & Cultural Geography, Tourism Geographies, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography or European Urban and Regional Studies.

He is the author of Fortifications, Postcolonialism and Power. Ruins and Imperial Legacies (Routledge, 2016). His research mostly focuses on Africa, and attempts to connect heritage, memory, landscape, violence and space.

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Maíra Januário is a social communicator with a degree in Organizational Communication from the Federal Technological University of Paraná (Brazil), a master’s degree in Media and Society from the Polytechnic of Portalegre (Portugal), with research on communication in the bicycle delivery cooperative: the case of Mensakas (Barcelona, Spain). She is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho (Portugal) and is part of the project team “MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonizing media landscapes and imagining alternative futures” (CECS).   

She is an audio and video production technician, photographer, and director of the documentary “Primavera Secundarista” (2017), a short documentary about the student movement in Paraná (Brazil), already screened at the International Film Festival in Curitiba, academic events and spaces of social struggles in Brazil and Chile. Event producer, she worked as an event technician for the Secretary of Culture of Amazonas, and participated in the production of major jazz, music, theater and film festivals, including “Natal Glorioso” in the city of Manaus, Amazonas (Brazil). 

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Sheila Khan is a sociologist, researcher at the CICANT – Research Center for Applied Communications and New Technologies, Lusophone University; assistant professor at the Lusophone University and commentator on the panel of the African Debate program at RDP Africa. She holds a PhD in Ethnic and Cultural Studies from the University of Warwick. Her most recent publications are: Portugal a Lápis de Cor. A Sul de uma Pós-Colonialidade (Almedina, 2015); Visitas a João Paulo Borges Coelho. Leituras, Diálogos e Futuros (eds. with Nazir Can, Sandra Sousa, Leonor Simas-Almeida e Isabel Ferreira Gould, Colibri, 2017); O Mundo na Europa: Crises e Identidade (eds. with Rita Ribeiro e Vítor Sousa, Húmus, 2020); Racism and Racial Surveillance. Modernity Matters (eds. com Nazir Can e Helena Machado, Routledge, 2021); HISTORICAL REPARATIONS: DESTABILISING CONSTRUCTIONS FROM THE COLONIAL PAST’, Revista Comunicação e Sociedade, vol.41 (eds., with Vítor Sousa e Pedro Schacht Pereira); ‘Feminine Post-memories: Voices and Experiences in the Grammar of the World’ (eds. with Sandra Sousa and Susana Pimenta); Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida: Tecelã de Mundos Passados e Presentes (eds. with Sandra Sousa, 2023), and, recently, ‘Emerging Perspectives on Afro-Descendant Production: Memory, Identity and Global Diaspora’, Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies (2024, in preparation; eds. with Sandra Sousa).

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Alberto Teixeira de Sá is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, University of Minho, where he held the positions of Deputy Director (2019-2021), and also Director in the Bachelor’s Degree (2015-2017) and Assistant Director of Master’s Degree (2017-2019). He is currently Assistant Director of Media Arts Master’s Degree (2021-).

He is a researcher at CECS (Communication and Society Research Centre) where he carries out studies on social representations and collective memory (memory studies), in particular, mediated memories in the digital age (digital archives and digital preservation of memory) – in which he obtained a PhD degree -, and Medieval Urban History – on which obtained Master degree.

He is a member of the funded scientific projects “AUDIRE – Audio Repository: saving sonic-based memories” [www.audire.uminho.pt] and “MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activism in Portuguese: decolonizing media landscapes and imagining alternative futures” [www.migra.ics.uminho.pt].

He was WG2 co-leader of e-COST Action IS1205 (Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union) and a member of the steering committee.

Likewise, he also teaches in the fields of media arts, digital audiovisual media, publishing design and digital compositing, on whose areas have oriented several PhDs and Master’s students.

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Carla Cerqueira holds a PhD in Communication Sciences – specialization in Communication Psychology from the University of Minho, Portugal (2012). Currently she is an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University, an integrated researcher at CICANT – The Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture, and New Technologies and collaborator at CECS – Communication and Society Research Centre. Her research interests include gender, feminisms, intersectionality, NGOs, activism, digital citizenship and media studies. She integrates diverse national and international research projects; she is the principal investigator of the project “FEMglocal – Glocal feminist movements: interactions and contradictions (PTDC/COM-CSS/4049/2021) and the project “Network Voices: Women’s participation in development processes” (COFAC/ILIND/CICANT/1/2021). She is the chair of the Research & Policy Committee of GAMAG – Global Alliance on Media and Gender. She integrates the board of APEM – Portuguese Association of Women’s Studies and she is part of RTP’s Opinion Council (mandate 2021-2025) as a member appointed by the NGOs to the Advisory Council of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. 

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Gessica Borges is a social communicator with a degree from Anhembi Morumbi University (Brazil), and a Master in African Studies from the University of Porto (Portugal), with research on memory, identity, and resistance through the oral history of black Brazilian women. Currently she is a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho (Portugal) and is part of the team of the project “MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonizing media landscapes and imagining alternative futures” (CECS).

She is a self-taught writer since childhood and poet at heart with poetry published in Brazilian anthologies, including “Poetas Negras Brasileiras” (Editora de Cultura, 2021). She also works as an activist in Portuguese anti-racist collectives such as Núcleo Antirracista do Porto (NARP) and União Negra das Artes (UNA).

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Julia Alves Brasil holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of Minho/Portugal and has master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES)/Brazil. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Postgraduate Program in Psychology (PPGP)/UFES (2018-2022).

Currently, she is a collaborator researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS)/University of Minho. She was a researcher in different research projects, such as the COST Action IS 1205: “Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union”. She has experience in the fields of Social Psychology and Cultural Studies, with an emphasis on identity processes, intergroup relations and socio-cultural practices. Her main research interests include migration, intercultural communication, social representations, social memory, Latin America, and decolonial thinking.

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Researcher, professor and independent curator. Collaborating Researcher at the Centre for Studies in Communication and Society of the University of Minho (2020) and member of the TRAMA group of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2020), Associate Professor at the School of Fine Arts of UFRJ (2010 -), Coordinator of the research network Post Colonial and Peripheral Cinemas. Post – PhD in Contemporary Studies from the University of Coimbra (2018-2020), Integrated Researcher at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century of the University of Coimbra, hired through the Stimulus to Scientific Employment (2018), coordinated the research project On the Fringes of Portuguese Cinema (2020),and the artistic residency Afroeuropeans, both funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Guest Professor at the Graduate Program in Communication at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2021-).

Works in the areas: image and culture, post-colonial studies, intersectional feminism, decolonial, ethnic-racial relations and gender.

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Tiago Vieira da Silva is a PhD researcher in Communication Sciences at the University of Minho, and is currently developing his dissertation “Rethinking national identity from the April revolution to the present, through Portuguese cinema”, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. He will defend his dissertation in the current academic year (2022-2023). He holds a master’s degree in Communication, Art and Culture, also from the University of Minho (2016) and a bachelor in Film Studies at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto (2013). His areas of interest are the film studies, Portuguese language literatures, cultural studies and semiotics. Visiting professor at ESAP (Escola Superior Artística do Porto). He was part of the international project “Memories, Cultures and Identities: How the past weights on the present day intercultural relations between Mozambique and Portugal”, funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and the Aga Khan Development Network (2018-2022), and collaborated on the national project “Mapping and Critical Senses of the Photographic Archive of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang)” (2020). He is also content manager of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, current Cultural Unit of the University of Minho.

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Alessandra Nardini holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Communication: Journalism from the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (2014), with the academic rights of a Licentiate in Social and Cultural Communication from the Portuguese Catholic University, and a postgraduate degree in Screenwriting for Film and Television from the same institution (2015). She also holds a Master’s degree in Contemporary Cultural Studies from FUMEC University (2018), recognized by the Portuguese Catholic University, and is currently a PhD student in Cultural Studies at the University of Minho. 

She currently holds a PhD Studentship from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), is a team member of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony and the project “Migrations, media, and activisms in the Portuguese language: decolonizing mediascapes and imagining alternative futures”. Alessandra is also a member of the research group Media and Narrative at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais. Throughout her academic career, she has focused on researching cultural manifestations and artistic expressions in urban spaces and alternative media. Her doctoral thesis explores rap music videos, digital platforms, and activism. 

During her Bachelor’s studies, she investigated the media projection of the rap event Duelo de MC’s at Viaduto Santa Tereza in Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais, Brazil). In her Master’s studies, with research funded by FUMEC University and FAPEMIG, she analyzed the Hip Hop movement in Taquaril and cultural practices in the East Zone of Belo Horizonte. Also during her Master’s, she was a team member of the project “Eu Sei Tudo: Plural Culture in Magazine”, which explored the ideological formation processes of the magazine Eu Sei Tudo and its contemporary implications. Additionally, she completed a Teaching Internship at FUMEC University and was a student of two curricular units in the Postgraduate Program in Literary Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais: “The Image and Writing in Georges Didi-Huberman’s Work” and “Survival of the Image in Writing”. 

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Chisoka Paulo Simões is a PhD student in Cultural Studies, a Master’s in Adult Education and Community Intervention and a Bachelor’s in Cultural Studies, all at the University of Minho (Portugal). He has professional experience in heritage, cultural tourism, and public space in Northern Portugal, and his current academic research focuses on the intersection of the previous fields with migration, transnationality, identity, and place-making.

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Ivo Neto holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho in a joint project with the University of Texas at Austin. He is also a journalist and editor at PÚBLICO, one of Portugal’s main newspapers.

He works mainly on issues related to information multiplatforms and disinformation processes. He also works as a professor in the Communication Sciences course at the University of Maia.

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I am a social anthropologist (ISCTE – Lisbon) with a Ph.D in Anthropology (University of Minho) and a professor at University of Minho and a researcher at CRIA.

My investigation was directed towards different themes, but it converged to the analysis of processes of identity construction and social dynamics. This line of research includes my work on the identity narratives in the Estado Novo (e.g. A Nação nas Malhas da sua Identidade, Afrontamento), but also the knots of consensus and dissensus woven around the idea of Lusophony (e.g. “Letras que desenham identidades”, Anuário Internacional de Comunicação Lusófona). I also worked on social memory (e.g. Memória Social em Campo Maior, Dom Quixote), focusing on a border context and taking into account the identity issues.

My recent works have followed a different line, searching for a register closer to the deconstruction of the dominant economic/political model (e.g. “Economic crises and political decision: words and meanings”, in Citizenships in Crises, ICS – with Virgínia Calado).

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PhD in Cultural Studies (University of Minho), Master in Culture and Communication (University of Lisbon) and Bachelor in Social Communication with specialization in Advertising and Marketing (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing). Has experience in initiatives in Communication and Marketing, having worked with clients such as Action Aid, World Vision, WWF Brazil and ESPM-Rio. Worked on innovation projects in Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, working with clients such as Carrefour, L’Oréal, The Brazilian Navy, VALE, Odebrecht, INEA/RJ and FIEC/CE. Currently, she is a Research Collaborator at the Studies in Communication and Society Centre (CECS), in Portugal. She is interested in researches aligned with themes such as identity, visual culture, memory, discourse, media and art.

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Yuri Sousa holds a PhD in psychology (2017) from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE/Brazil), with a doctoral internship (2014-2015) at the Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale of Aix-Marseille Université (AMU/France). He is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of Psychology of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA/Brazil) and a researcher in the Graduate Program in Psychology (PPGPSI/UFBA). He is a postdoctoral fellow abroad, within the framework of the international cooperation project “Scientific innovations, social representations and intercultural comparison Brazil/France: theoretical-methodological strategies of triangulation in psychosocial research” (MCTI/CNPq/UFPE). During his postdoctoral research internship, he will lead the work plan “Development and applications in Psychosocial Research of the Text Analysis Interface based on Artificial Intelligence (IATexto)”, with activities at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), within the scope of the project “MigraMediaActs – Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonizing media landscapes and imagining alternative futures”. He has experience in Social Psychology, with special interest in the approach to social representations, the use of computational methods for textual data analysis and topics related to the use of psychoactive drugs.