I hold a five-year integrated BA/MA in Philosophy (1998) and a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2003), both awarded by the University of Turin, Italy. My doctoral research, supported by a four-year competitive fellowship and awarded special commendation (Dignity of Print), laid the foundations for a long-term research programme centred on embodiment, moral regimes and processes of subject formation. I was also appointed Cultore della materia, marking the beginning of my academic career. My intellectual trajectory has developed coherently over more than two decades, grounded in long-term ethnographic fieldwork and sustained theoretical engagement at the intersection of the anthropology of the body and emotions, medical anthropology, urban ethnography and gender studies. Across diverse empirical contexts, I have examined how moral hierarchies, regimes of value and forms of governance are inscribed on bodies and subjectivities, shaping experiences of inequality, citizenship and recognition. In 2003, I moved to Portugal to pursue my academic career. I held consecutive postdoctoral fellowships at ISCTE-IUL and, in 2008, was appointed Principal Researcher at CRIA through an international competition. In 2013, I obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor in Anthropology. In 2014, I was appointed Visiting Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil). From 2015 onwards, I consolidated my career at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa). Following successive competitive procedures within the Portuguese research system, I was confirmed in a permanent position in 2024 and, in 2025, appointed Principal Investigator and Associate Professor in the University of Lisbon’s doctoral programme in Anthropology (DANT). This permanent appointment formally recognises my scientific leadership and provides full institutional stability for the development of long-term research agendas. My research advances a critical analysis of embodiment, gender and moral evaluation under contemporary conditions of social and democratic strain. Beginning with an ethnography on emotions and personhood in a postcolonial context, I developed a sustained line of inquiry into how affective practices and bodily norms are socially regulated and politically embedded. Subsequent projects consolidated a critical approach to bodily normativity and gender roles as sociopolitical dispositifs. I have analysed how citizenship regimes, racialisation processes and governance structures operate through medical practices, aesthetic technologies and health interventions, with particular attention to migrant women’s experiences and urban inequalities. More recently, I have examined gendered regimes of social adequacy in aesthetic medicine and plastic surgery, conceptualising urban space as a moral–affective landscape in which recognition, aspiration and stratification are negotiated through bodies and affects. This analytical framework directly underpins BAM’s hypothesis that masculinity operates as a structuring principle of civic worth. A distinctive feature of my profile is methodological innovation conceived as epistemic contribution. I have developed and theorised art-based ethnography as a rigorous mode of anthropological knowledge production. Through ethnographic exhibitions, audiovisual outputs and public programmes, I have translated research into curatorial and pedagogical formats while maintaining analytical depth. This integrated model was recognised with the ICS-ULisboa Social Sciences Outreach Award (2023). Over the past decade, I have coordinated large-scale nationally and internationally funded research projects as Principal Investigator, leading interdisciplinary teams composed of senior scholars, postdoctoral fellows and doctoral researchers. I have taught at undergraduate, master’s and doctoral levels in Portugal and Brazil for over twenty years.