Carolina Cruz de Castro holds an MSc. degree in environmental engineering from the NOVA School of Science and Technology (NOVA FCT), NOVA University of Lisbon. Carolina is currently a PhD student at the NOVA Environment and Sustainability PhD program and is also involved in the Life ENTRACK Project: “Empowering local and regional authorities to design clean ENergy TRAnsition plans through Capacity and Knowledge building actions". In recent years, Carolina has won the NOVA Young Talent Awards 2020 and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Environmental Sustainability Grant (Novos Talentos Científicos 2022). This grant supported and funded her research on students' perception of Energy Poverty (a comparative analysis between local and university exchange students from Montevideo, Lisbon, and Padua), published in Frontiers in Sustainable Cities journal (Castro & Gouveia, 2023). This research was part of her master’s thesis which aimed to analyze and compare students' perceptions of Energy Poverty, exploring their vulnerability to this problem, and considering their background and the city in which they live. In addition to Montevideo, Lisbon, and Padua, the analysis was extended to the scale of Portugal, comparing the situation among students from different Portuguese cities.