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Professor Portilho holds a PhD in social sciences from UNICAMP (Campinas State University – 2003), with an international doctoral internship at Oxford University (2002). She has a master’s degree in community psychology and social ecology from the Eicos Program at UFRJ (Rio de Janeiro Federal University – 1997). She has been a visiting professor at Santa Cruz State University (UESC/Ilhéus, Bahia) and Universidad Nacional del Sur (UNS/Bahia Blanca, Argentina), and a visiting scholar at Wageningen University (Netherlands).

She was a member of the Executive Board for the Brazilian Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Environment and Society (ANPPAS) from 2017 to 2019.

Her areas of interest include environmental sociology, the sociology of consumption, sociology of food, and theories of social practices. She teaches courses in the areas of contemporary social theories, the sociology of consumption, and the sociology of food.

Her research focuses on processes of environmentalization and politicization of consumption and of daily life, political consumerism, food consumption, food activism, social practices, and social movements (environmentalism, consumer movements, and food movements).

She is one of the leaders of the Consumption Studies Group.

She is the author of Sustentabilidade ambiental, consumo e cidadania [Environmental Sustainability, Consumption, and Citizenship] (Vozes, 2005), and along with Lívia Barbosa and Letícia Veloso edited the book Consumo: cosmologias e sociabilidades [Consumption: Cosmologies and Sociabilities] (Mauad/Edur, 2009), and has published articles in books and Journals in Brazil and abroad.