Vera Ferreira is a social scientist specialising in energy studies. She holds a PhD in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies from the University of Lisbon and NOVA University of Lisbon (2025), with a specialisation in Environmental Sciences. Her research interests focus on energy democracy, community renewable energy and just energy transitions, with particular attention to issues of power, participation and social justice in energy governance. She is currently a project manager at Coopérnico – Sustainable Development Cooperative, where she works at the interface between research and practice, supporting the development and implementation of renewable energy communities and citizen-led energy initiatives. She is also an external collaborator of the Socioecological Transition research group at the Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. Vera Ferreira has previously worked as a consultant in the project JustWind4All – Just and Effective Governance for Accelerating Wind Energy and as a first-stage researcher in the project INCITE-DEM – Inclusive Citizenship in a World in Transformation: Co-Designing for Democracy. She was co–principal investigator of the project ClimatEquality: Climate Change, Public Policies and Inequalities (FCT–PlanAPP), developed at CoLABOR – Collaborative Laboratory for Labour, Employment and Social Protection. Between 2019 and 2022, she was a junior researcher at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, where she participated in the project TROPO – Ontologies of the Anthropocene in Portugal: Social Movements, Public Policies and Emerging Technologies. She holds a Master’s degree in International Relations (2017), specialising in Peace and Security Studies, and a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (2015), both from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra.