Social scientist, graduated at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP, Brazil. 2007) and MSc in in Spatial Planning and Urbanism at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (IST/ULisboa. 2022). Currently PhD research fellow in Territorial Engineering at CiTUA - Centre for Innovation in Territory, Urbanism and Architecture/IST investigating informal 'shadow' networks in driving social innovation towards sustainability transitions in Mediterranean forests communities. Research in Social Network Theory, Sustainability Transitions, Social Innovation Labs (SILab) and community-based approaches in Socio-Ecological Systems (SES).