Ana Sofia Ribeiro is a researcher in the fields of Education and Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She currently researches rural youth environmental and educational activisms, funded by the National Foundation for Science and Technology Scientific Stimulus Program 2023. Previously, she researched rural youth recovery from wildfire disasters (funded by CEEC 2017) and she was one of leaders of the EEA Grants funded project "Tr@kin: Public employment services tracking effectiveness in supporting rural NEETs". She has extensive international experience, gained through interdisciplinary training, as an Erasmus Mundus scholar (Master degree in Higher Education awared by the University of Oslo, University of Tampere and University of Aveiro), a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher (PhD in Education awarded by the University of Bielefeld, 2015) and as a post doctoral fellow in the CUIDAR H2020 project (focusing cultures of disaster resilience). She lectures in Community Intervention, Research Methods, Public Policies and Pedagogies. She is an expert for the Erasmus Plus Agency and for the European Commission in the field of Higher Education, a member of the Education Working Group of the European Rural Youth Observatory, a member of the COST action SHIFT (https://shift-cost.eu) and a member of the Ethics Board of the Institute of Social Sciences. She is interested in sociology of education, children and youth; human development; sociology of disasters; rural and environmental sociology. She works with ethnographical, biographical and art based methodologies.