Paula Guerra holds a PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP). She is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto and Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Sociology of the same University (IS-UP). Member of the Scientific Committee of the Master in Sociology at the University of Porto, she is also part of other international research centres: Associate Researcher in Centre for Geography and Spatial Planning Studies (CEGOT); CITCEM ¿ Transdisciplinary Research Centre «Culture, Space and Memory»; Adjunct Associate Professor of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research (GCSCR); International Invited Researcher of the Postgraduate Program in Sociology at the Fluminense Federal University (PPGS-UFF), in History, Culture and Subjectivity Research Group, Federal University of Piauí and University of Brasilia (Brazil) and in Postgraduate Program in Communication at the Federal University of Pernambuco (PPGCOM-UFPE). She is the founder and coordinator of the Rede Todas As Artes, Luso-Afro-Brazilian Network of Sociology of Culture and Arts. She belongs to the Interdisciplinary Network for the Study of Subcultures, Popular Music and Social Change and to the Sociological Research Network of the Arts of the European Sociological Association. Has been visiting professor/researcher at several international universities. Paula Guerra coordinates and participates in various national and international research projects in the field of youth cultures and the sociology of art and culture. She is also supervisor of several master's, doctoral and post-doctoral projects in those thematic areas. She is a member of the editorial board of several national and international scientific journals, as well as a scientific reviewer of several articles and books in an international scope. Her current research interests include popular music, DIY cultures and careers, subcultures and post-subcultures, social critical theory, sociological theories, qualitative research methodologies, underground music and music scenes, authenticity, aura and charisma in the arts, cultural fields, art worlds, cinema, performance. She is coordinator and founder of the KISMIF Conference and coordinator of the Thematic Section Art, Culture and Communication of the Portuguese Sociological Association. She is founder and director of the scientific journal Todas as Artes. Revista Lusófona de Arte e Cultura. Paula is the chair of IASPM ¿ Portugal and is part of the Board of Sociology of the Arts of the European Association of Sociology. She is the author (with A. Bennett) of the edited book DIY Cultures and Underground Music Scenes (Oxford: Routledge, 2018), (with M. Dines, A. Gordon and R. Bestley) The Punk Reader. Research Transmissions from the Local and the Global (Bristol: Intellect, 2019), and (with P. Quintela) of the edited book Punk, Fanzines and DIY Cultures in a Global World. Fast, Furious and Xerox (London: Palgrave, 2020). She recently published the books Redefining art worlds in the late modernity (University of Porto, 2016), More than loud (Porto: Afrontamento, 2015), On the road to the American underground (University of Porto, 2015), As Palavras do Punk [The Words of Punk] (Lisbon: Alêtheia, 2015), A Instável Leveza do Rock [The unstable lightness of rock] (Porto: Afrontamento, 2013). She has published more than 60 book chapters (more than 30 in international publishing houses in UK, EUA, Canada, Germany and Brazil) and more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed periodicals, more than 60 of them in international journals, including WOS-Q1 journals such as Journal of Sociology, Popular Music and Society, European Journal of Cultural Studies, Critical Arts, Portuguese Journal of Social Sciences, Cultural Sociology, Cultural Trends, Young, and top ranked Latin-American journals such as Sociologia & Antropologia and Tempo (Niterói).