Barbara Cortat Simoneli is a PhD candidate and holds a master’s degree in Education from the Post-Graduate Program in Education (PPGE) at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (Ufes), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Kyria Finardi. Her research focuses on the processes of critical internationalization at home, emphasizing the training of teachers and researchers through virtual exchanges. The objective is to understand how these experiences contribute to the construction of a global citizenship for these subjects.

Barbara has extensive experience in international online collaborations, working with educators and researchers from institutions such as Florida Universitària (Spain), Coventry University (England), Gazi University (Turkey), University of Limerick (Ireland), and University of Bern (Switzerland).

Her master’s research, conducted between the second semester of 2021 and the second semester of 2023, explored the critical training of English teachers, grounded in Paulo Freire's critical pedagogy as the main theoretical framework. She holds a degree in English Language and Literature from Ufes, where she was a scholarship student in the extension program Building Citizenship Through Language, coordinated by Prof. Dr. Kyria Finardi.

Her current research interests include interculturality, global citizenship development, the internationalization of higher education, and the critical teaching and learning of the English language.