Marcia Rangel Candido is an Integrated Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES) and a Lecturer in the Master's Program in Political Science at the School of Sociology and Public Policy (ESPP), both at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. She is an external expert on Evidence-Informed Policy Making (EIPM) in a project coordinated by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre. Her research focuses on inequalities in science, politics, and Brazilian cinema, and she is the author of the book "Dois gêneros, duas histórias? A fundação da ciência política no Brasil" (Two Genders, Two Histories? The Founding of Political Science in Brazil), published by EdUERJ. She has extensive experience in scientific publishing: she is a member of the editorial boards of DADOS (since 2015), Global Dialogue, the public sociology magazine of the International Sociological Association (ISA), and Gender, Work and Organization (GWO), and serves as Humanities moderator for SciELO Preprints. She was 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 dissertation defended at PPGCP/IESP-UERJ in 2022, the institution where she completed her PhD and master's degree in Political Science. She holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). She was a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge, with a CAPES/PDSE fellowship, as well as at Iscte, the University of Coimbra (UC), the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo), and the National University of San Martín (UNSAM). She has taught courses and lectures at UFRJ, the University of Brasília (UnB, in collaboration with Flávia Biroli), SESC-SP, IRI/PUC-Rio, IESP-UERJ, and the University of Lisbon. She collaborated on research projects of the Brazilian Political Science Association (2020-2021) and the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research 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 Cristiano Rodrigues, professor at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (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 fellow at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), where she developed 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 Red Politólogas. In the sphere of engagement with society and government, in 2018 she served as an invited expert on the Working Group on Gender and Ethnic-Racial Diversity in the Audiovisual Sector at Brazil's Ministry of Culture, and in 2024 she was part of the Working Group on Maternal Retention in Higher Education Institutions, organized by Brazil's Ministry of Education. She has also participated as an invited expert in public hearings at the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies and Federal Senate.