Full Professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM), Brazil, teaching at the undergraduate, masters, and doctoral levels. I am a social psychologist with interdisciplinary training in psychology, public health, communication, and gender studies. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (September 2024 September 2025), Department of Sociology, supported by a scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). Previously, I was a CNPq Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (March 2018 June 2019), Department of Social Psychology. I also completed postdoctoral studies in Communication at UFSM (2024-2015). I hold a PhD in Psychology from PUCRS, including a Fulbright Fellowship at Columbia University; a Masters degree in Social and Personality Psychology (PUCRS); and specialist degrees in Public Health (UFRGS / FIOCRUZ / ESP RS) and Health Management (UFRGS). I am also certified in Alcohol and Drug Counseling by the University of California (UCLA). My undergraduate degree is in Psychology. I lead the VIDAS (LIFE) Research, Teaching, and Extension Core and serve as Leader of the SMIC Research Group (Health, Social Minorities, and Communication). I am a member of Working Group Social Representations of the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP), where I serve as Vice Coordinator (2015present). I am CNPq Research Productivity Fellow (20152018 and 2019 - present) and a FAPERGS Research Fellow (Pq Gaúcho, 20192021). My research areas include Social Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Gender Politics, Public Health, and Communication. My main topics of interest are sexual and reproductive rights, gender and feminism, social representations, Latino immigration, and (cyber)media. My work is grounded in Critical Social Psychology, drawing especially on Social Representation Theory, Psychoanalysis, and Feminist Studies, in dialogue with Critical Sociology/Anthropology and Critical Media Studies. Visit our Blog at www.psicologiasocialbrasileira.blogspot.com , http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7471-133X