(Humanitarian Action Practitioner; Course lecturer in Environmental Risk and Societal Resilience; Supervisor of dissertations) 

Mehmet Ali Üzelgün is a Research Fellow in the Communication and Culture research group at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte) at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. He is also an Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, and an Associate Researcher at the Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His research explores diverse discursive and rhetorical features of environmental communication, specifically focusing on climate change risks and transitions. He also works on public discourse and argumentative practices, with a specific interest in how scientific knowledge meets the political and transforms policymaking. He is a team member of the national project "JustFutures - Climate Futures and Just Transformations: Young People's Narratives and Political Imaginaries”. Coordinates the Portuguese participation in the international project "LiFi - Living with Wildfire: imagining, narrating and acting upon a changing climate".