Juliana holds a PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Heritage at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV- CPDOC), Brazil (2019). Master in Built Environment and Sustainable Heritage from the School of Architecture at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil and bachelor´s degree in Tourism, from Universidade FUMEC.
From 2021 to 2022 she was an Associated researcher at CIES, Iscte and from 2022 to 2023 she was an integrated researcher at Interdisciplinary NOVA University Lisbon – Centre of Social Sciences (CICS.NOVA), with a post-doctoral scholarship in the project SMOOTH – Educational Common Spaces – Passing through enclosures and reversing. Continuing her research in the field of Democracy and Education since 2023 she joints the AECED project in Portugal team as a post-doctoral researcher in Universidade Aberta and becomes a member of the Education and Distance Learning Laboratory (LE@D).