Mehmet Ali Üzelgün is a Research Fellow in the Communication and Culture research group at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is also an Auxiliary Researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) and an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research explores argumentative and rhetorical features of environmental discourse, specifically focusing on climate change risks, transitions, and activism. He simultaneously works on the ethics of public discourse and argument, with a specific interest in the relationship between narrative and argumentative formats. He coordinates the Portuguese participation in the international project "LiFi - Living with Wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate”. He is a researcher at the Horizon Project MultiPoD - "Multilingual and Multicultural Spaces for Political Deliberation”, aimed at supporting citizen deliberation through the use of innovative technologies such as Culture-Specific Language Models.