Juliana holds a PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Heritage at Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV- CPDOC), Brazil (2019), a master’s in Built Environment and Sustainable Heritage from the School of Architecture at Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil and a 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, she joined the AECED project in the Portugal team in 2023 as a post-doctoral researcher in Universidade Aberta and became a member of the Education and Distance Learning Laboratory (LE@D).