Alexandra Lopes has a PhD in Social Policy from the London School of Economics and works as a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Sociology at UPORTO, where she is, among other things, Director of the PhD in Social Sciences and Ageing. She is a consultant for the European Commission in the areas of Ageing and Well-being, Social Inclusion and Social and Territorial Inequalities. She is also a scientific evaluator for the La Caixa Foundation's Social Observatory in Portugal.
Her academic career has been marked by her involvement in numerous national and international research projects in the field of demographic ageing and its challenges, particularly those related to living conditions and meeting needs. She is the author of several publications on the subject. She is currently leading the LeTs-Care project in Portugal, a European research project funded under the Horizon Europe Program, which is looking at the challenges and opportunities in the long-term care sector.
