Anabela Pereira holds a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (2013), postgraduate training in Data Analysis in Social Sciences from the same institution, and a Master's degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Lisbon (2023).

She was a member of the research team of Biographical Echoes: Triangulation in the Study of Life Course, at CIES-Iscte funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). She also served as Project Manager of the EU4Health-funded project Vax-Action: Tackling Vaccine Hesitancy in Europe (Project No. 101133273).

She is currently involved in the ERC-funded project fAIces – Facial Recognition Technologies: Ethical-Political Assemblages and Alternative Futures (Grant No. 101140664), contributing to research activities within SP3 and SP4, where her work engages with NGOs and civil society actors to examine the social dimensions of facial recognition technologies and how different publics understand, experience and critically engage with them.

Her research focuses on embodiment, the sociology of the body, visual culture, emotion and cognition, and the social, cultural and ethical implications of emerging technologies. She is also a Board Member of the International Sociological Association's Research Committee 54 – The Body in the Social Sciences (RC54).