Dora Rebelo is a systemic psychologist and holds a PhD in Anthropology. She is a full member of the Portuguese Board of Psychologists and is a board member at the European Association of Community Psychology (ECPA).

She has over 20 years of experience in community-based projects aiming the social inclusion of migrants, refugees and ethnic minorities and works with  international humanitarian NGOS since 2010. She was a project coordinator in mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) from 2010 to 2017 in Guinea-Bissau, Yemen, Ethiopia and Greece and works as an independent consultant in MHPSS and Staff Care since 2017 until the present moment.

Since 2017 she has been doing research and participated in several academic projects at CRIA-Iscte (Livepolitics), CIS-Iscte (JustFutures) and currently as an integrated researcher at CIES-Iscte. Since 2018 she has been a Guest Assistant Professor at Iscte-IUL (Master's in Humanitarian Action and Erasmus Mundus Joint Master on Coordinated Humanitarian Response, Health and Displacement) and she is also a member of the teaching staff at he Postgraduate Program in Humanitarian Action at the University of Algarve since 2021.

Her scientific interests lie at the intersection of refugee and migrant justice, social inclusion, community psychology, solidarity, activist movements, and climate justice.

She regularly provides training in MHPSS, Intercultural Competences and Trauma-Informed Care at various national and international institutions. She is a member of SCRA - Society for Community Research and Action - and she is a regular collaborator at Forum Refúgio Portugal and Union of Refugees in Portugal (UREP), with whom she is currently involved in project Cooperhate and project Alphabetica.