Biography

Cíntia Fachada is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Coimbra and is a graduate teaching assistant in the Faculty of Economics. Her thesis project involves the extreme events and social networks of communities. It is supervised by Professor José Manuel Mendes and Professor Sílvia Portugal. She was recently awarded a PhD scholarship by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology during her PhD research. She also earned her degree in Sociology at the same University. Her master's thesis focused on the role of social capital in wildfire resilience. Her research topics are risk, citizenship, networks, rural communities and disaster resilience.