Clarissa Correa Neto Ribeiro  holds a PhD and a master's degree in International Relations from the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program (UNESP/ UNICAMP/ PUC-SP), and a bachelor's degree in State Sciences (Ciências do Estado) from the Minas Gerais Federal University (UFMG), Brazil. She has received the CAPES scholarship of the Brazilian government through her master's and PhD degrees, in addition to a CAPES PrInt postdoctoral scholarship at the San Tiago Dantas Graduate Program. She has been a visiting exchange student at the Universidad de la Republica (Uruguay) with funding provided by the AUGM Programa de Escala de Pos Grado (2015), and a visiting doctoral fellow at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies - GIGA, in Hamburg, Germany. She is a member of the Research Network on Foreign Policy and Regionalism (REPRI) and the Regionalism Observatory in Brazil, where she has acted as a student coordinator. She has research experience in regional integration and regionalism, and has investigated mainly processes in Latin America and Africa through comparative regionalism, with a work focus on overlapping regional institutions.