Catarina Antunes Gomes is a researcher at the Centre of Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and a member of Studies on Democracy, Multicultural Citizenship and Participation of the same institution. She has a PhD degree on Sociology attributed by the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra. Her academic formation is in Social and Cultural Anthropology by the Science and Technology Faculty of the same University. She is also an invited Professor at Health Sciences Faculty of the University of Aveiro.