Social scientist, graduated at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil. 2007) and M.Sc. in Territorial Planning and Urban Studies at the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (IST/Ulisboa. 2022). Currently PhD student in the Doctoral Programme in Territorial Engineering at IST/ULisboa and researcher fellow at CiTUA - Centre for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism, and Architecture/IST. Reseach fields in territorial planning, systemic and complexity thinking, community-based approaches, actors' network analysis (SNA), sustainability transitions in socio-ecological systems (SES) and community-based governance in forest territories.