Alessandra Jungs de Almeida is a Postdoctoral Associate in the MIT Women’s and Gender Studies Program. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, in 2024. Jungs de Almeida is also a research affiliate at MIT’s Data + Feminism Lab and UFSC’s Center for Gender Studies in Foreign Policy and International Politics (NEGPEI).

Jungs de Almeida is a feminist scholar focusing on reproductive rights and gender-related violence. Her theoretical foundation in these areas is grounded in an interdisciplinary approach, drawing from International Relations, Critical Data Studies, and Gender Studies.

Jungs de Almeida's latest research analyzes the efforts of feminist and anti-feminist organizations to promote and internalize international norms related to the legalization and criminalization of reproductive rights in Brazil and Argentina. Through interviews with transnational activists and extensive document analysis, she theoretically analyzes the actions of these activisms in multilateral forums related to gender, their relationship with the foreign policy of both countries and how these transnational activisms demand, refuse and produce data for their political goals. Jungs de Almeida also introduces the concept of transnational data activism, a relatively unexplored concept in International Relations and Critical Data Studies.

Jungs de Almeida prioritizes interdisciplinarity and collaborative work as essential for driving theoretical innovation and practical changes related to social justice. Among other projects, since 2022, she has been involved in the Data + Feminism Lab's "Data Against Feminicide" project, researching and co-designing AI tools to support data activists across the Americas. Furthermore, during the 2023-25 academic years, she is editing and organizing a book on feminist security studies, focusing on data activism against feminicide and gender and security issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book features contributions from twenty-one authors, including activists against feminicide, government and NGO security practitioners, and early-career scholars from fourteen countries.

In the 2023-2024 academic term, Jungs de Almeida was a recipient of the MIT-SHASS Predoctoral Fellowship (2023-2024) within the Women's and Gender Studies Program. In the 2022-2023 academic term, she was a visiting student at MIT's Data + Feminism Lab.