Yasmine holds a doctorate in Social Sciences with the thesis "De-Orient the Arab Woman: Polarizing Geographies and Frames of Oppression in Contests and Contestations of Human Rights", from the Programme "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She holds a Bachelor´s degree from the American University Cairo, Egypt majoring in Sociology and minoring in Psychology, and a Master's Degree from the University of Coimbra, Portugal in Sociology and International Relations: "Roads to Democracy(ies)". She is currently pursuing her postdoctoral research as part of the project: “Addressing ideologically inspired hate crimes: Victims’ narratives and unconscious cognitive biases in the criminal justice system” at the CEI-IUL (Center for International Studies) of the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL). This develops Yasmine’s focus on deconstructing stereotypes, violence and productions of fear and bias towards the “other”, through narrative accounts of victims' of hate crimes and assessments of how crimes come to be documented and sentenced through Implicit Association Tests. Social and Criminal Psychology methodologies of data collection through different perspectives of hate crimes and unconscious cognitive bias' seek to critically challenge and inform policy and qualitative academic research on racism, xenophobia, criminal justice systems and equality towards promoting justice. Her Master´s thesis is entitled: Human Rights in a Globalized and Gendered World: Beyond Eurocentric and Western Cultures. Yasmine's research at the Centre for Social Studies developed her academic and social interests in questions of human rights, culture and identities, frames of representation/ oppression and barriers to full recognition and human rights advancement for the "Arab" countries particularly Egypt and the individual complexities of the Egyptian woman. Moving beyond fixed frames and silenced realities resulting from hegemonic racial and patriarchal power in knowledge production, Yasmine’s research aims to contribute to alternative epistemologies in studying human rights languages and discourses of power which deconstruct and claim authority to their(her) own definitions and languages of emancipation. She has successfully defended her Thesis project in 2017, and her Doctoral Defense on the 17th of September, 2020, where she obtained the maximum mark of Approved with Distinction and Praise. Yasmine holds The International Baccalaureate (IB) in 2009 and Cambridge IGCSEs (2007)by Campion School, Athens, Greece. Bachelor in Sociology (Major) and Psychology (Minor), 2012 by The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt. Yasmine Loza specializes in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Media, Culture, women, Socio-economic and political Equality, knowledge production and Representation. In her curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Human Rights; Democracy;Women's Rights and gender equality;Culture;and Globalization