Mónica Soares holds a PhD in Human Rights from the Interdisciplinary Research Institute at the University of Coimbra, and a Master’s degree in the Psychology of Justice from the Faculty of Education and Psychology at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (FEP-UCP).

Since 2025, she has been a researcher at the Reseacher Centre for Human Development (CEDH) and in the Post-Doctoral Program in Integral Human Development at the Catholic University of Portugal (CADOS).

At FEP-UCP, she also serves as a lecturer in the Master’s program in Psychology and in the Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Program in Human Rights, where she teaches courses that integrate psychology, criminology, and human rights.

As a researcher, she has collaborated with the Psychology Research Center (CIPsi-UM; 2022–2024), the Institute of Social and Human Sciences (ICSyH, BUAP; 2018–2022), and the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences at the National University of La Plata (UNLP; 2020), among others.

Her research focuses on social movements; democracy and political participation; critical theory and political subjectivity; political and social psychology; psychology of justice; justice policies (with emphasis on juvenile and gender justice); utopian studies; and research methodologies in the social sciences.