Antonella is a social scientist working at the intersection of climate, health, and social justice. Her research explores how people experience, interpret, and adapt to environmental conditions, particularly thermal and atmospheric experiences, and how these responses are shaped by culture, gender, and ethnicity. She is committed to research that centres the voices and knowledge of communities that have been systematically excluded from dominant scientific and policy frameworks, and to methods that are collaborative, arts-informed, and non-extractive.

Her work has taken her from the Brazilian Amazon to Rio de Janeiro, from energy poverty to thermal justice, and from Indigenous cosmologies of energy to the lived experiences of trans women navigating extreme heat. She has contributed to shaping the research agenda on cooling and heat adaptation within the University of Oxford’s Future of Cooling programme, and has delivered guest lectures at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, the University of Bristol, and UFRJ-COPPE, among others. She has published in Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, Social Science and Medicine, and Local Environment, and her research has been recognised through a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and a prize in environmental humanities. She is a guest editor for the journal Energy and Climate Change.