Joana Castro Pereira is Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP). She studies the political challenges of the Anthropocene; the international and Latin American political economy of climate change and biodiversity loss; and the governance of the Amazon. 

She holds a bachelor in Languages and International Relations (2009) from FLUP and a PhD in International Relations/Globalization and Environment (2014) from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University of Lisbon (FCSH-NOVA). In 2018, she completed a post-doctoral research at the Institute of International Relations of the University of Brasília (IRI-UnB). She was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law of Lusíada University (2014-2020), Invited Assistant Professor at FCSH-NOVA (2016-2022), and Junior Researcher at IPRI-NOVA (2019-2022) with an individual research project financed by the FCT (CEEC/00065/2017).