Ana Cláudia Cardoso is a Researcher of Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq) since 2010, and has experience in Urban and Regional Planning applied to Eastern Amazonian context.  She is Associate Professor in the Federal University of Pará (UFPA), and conducts her activities in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (UFPA). She is graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the federal University of Pará. (UFPA) and Postgraduate Program of Urban Planning from the University of Brasilia and she obtained her PhD in Architecture at the Oxford Brookes University, UK (2002).

Her current research interest is the convergence between the extensive urbanization and cities naturalization processes, assuming that the right to the city needs to encompass the right to nature.