Simone Frangella is a Research Fellow at ICS and part of the Research Group Diversities: Ethnographies in the Contemporary World. She has a PhD in Social Sciences/Anthropology from the University of Campinas, Brazil (2004). It was also at UNICAMP that she completed Degree in Social Sciences (1993) and Master in Social Anthropology.

She was a research associate in the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at King's College, London (2006/2007), and a visiting researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London (2006/2009).

She worked extensively with themes related to urban space, corporeality, itinerant routes and the construction of sociability, with the street as the central space for Masters and Doctorate research.

As a post-doc research fellow (2009 -2018), she focused on issues related to transnational mobility, particularly migratory phenomena and their social and symbolic dynamics. She carried out two researches. The first investigation was on Brazilian migration, privileging gender and family relations, discourses on national identity and territorial belonging, generational relations, death and visibility.

The second post-doctoral project focused on the configurations and territorial margins of neighbourhoods in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, particularly in the South Bank, analysing intersections of territorial belonging with intergenerational relationships, with different work experiences and coexistence relationships.

In the recent years, she has been exploring issues regarding urban territoriality, vulnerability, memory and geographical mobility in post-colonial spaces, still in the Metropolitan Area of Lisbon. This most recent work is part of the Project FCT – Constellations of Memory: a multidirectional study of postcolonial migration and remembering. In which she is Co-PI.

She is a lecturer at the PhD Programme of Anthropology DANT (ICS/ISCSP) and the Master in Brazilian Studies (ICS/FLUL – ULisboa). She is currently President of Associação de Brasilianistas na Europa (Association of Brazilianists in Europe).