Marcia Rangel Candido is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) and Visiting Professor in the Master’s Program in Political Science at the School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP), both at the University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte). She is Associate Editor of DADOS (since 2015) and Humanities Moderator at SciELO Preprints. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Graduate Program in Sociology at the Institute of Social and Political Studies of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (IESP-UERJ), funded by the Serrapilheira Institute (2021–2022) and by a Faperj Nota 10 Fellowship (2022–2024).

She received the award for best doctoral thesis defended in the PPGCP/IESP-UERJ in 2022, where she also completed her PhD and MA in Political Science. She holds a BA in Social Sciences from UFRJ. Her doctoral thesis was also a finalist in the ANPOCS National Competition for Theses and Dissertations in 2022. She has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge (with a CAPES/PDSE grant), at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte), at the University of Coimbra, at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She has taught courses at UFRJ, at the University of Brasília (as collaborator of Flávia Biroli), at SESC-SP, at IRI-PUC-Rio, and at IESP-UERJ.

She has collaborated on research projects of the Brazilian Political Science Association (2020–2021) and the Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Social Sciences (2022). At the ANPOCS Annual Meeting, she co-coordinated in 2023 and 2024 the Working Group Gender Inequalities in Politics – Feminist and Intersectional Perspectives, alongside Professor Cristiano Rodrigues (UFMG).

In the field of science communication, she contributes to Nexo Políticas Públicas, Gênero e Número and Latinoamérica 21. In 2018, she founded the collective project Horizontes ao Sul, which received an honorable mention in the ANPOCS Award for Science Communication in the Social Sciences. She was also a research fellow at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), where she contributed to a mapping of initiatives for the popularization of the Social Sciences in Brazil.

She is a member of the Brazilian Network of Women Scientists (RBMC), the Research Network on Feminisms and Politics (RPFM), and the Red Politólogas. Her research focuses on inequalities in science, politics, and Brazilian cinema. She has also worked in advisory and expert roles for government and society: in 2018 she was an invited specialist on the Working Group on Gender and Ethnic-Racial Diversity in Audiovisual Media at the Ministry of Culture (Brazil), and in 2024 she joined the Working Group on Maternal Permanence in Higher Education Institutions at the Ministry of Education (Brazil). She has also served as an expert advisor in public hearings in both the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate.

She is the author of the book Dois gêneros, duas histórias? A fundação da ciência política no Brasil (EdUERJ).