Nadine Lobner is a PhD Candidate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Coimbra, at the department of Life Sciences. She holds a master's degree also in Anthropology from the University of Lisbon, 'Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas' (ISCSP) with a research focus on global interconnections through bottom-up perspectives; and a Bachelor degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Vienna with a focus on bilateral relations and epistempic violence. She has undertaken an internship at ISCSP on research and administration, through which she has learned and fulfilled all relevant tasks of paper publications in scopus journals, followed by a research grant (2018-2021) in the EU H2020 project 'Competing Regional Integration in Southeast Asia' (CRISEA). She has published several articles, co-edited a book on transformational movements, and co-authored a book on debating ASEAN through sociocultural perspectives. In course of her research path she has participated in several international research workshops such as in Italy, France, Portugal, Germany, Vietnam, Nepal and Timor-Leste; within the framework of different international conference venues (ItaSEAS, EuroSEAS, APA, Encontro Ciencia, Timor-Leste Stuies Association, EU-ASEAN strategic partnership, IKMAS Malaysia, a.o.) where she continously has presented her research and widened her methodological approaches. In her PhD project, funded by FCT (2021-2024), she focuses on the building of international regions/Ecumenes from sociocultural perspectives, with the EU and ASEAN as central case studies.