Ana Cação is a designer with a passion for multidisciplinary contexts and collaborations. She graduated in Law from the University of Coimbra in 2012, has specializations in Conflict Mediation (2013) and Administrative Law and Public Administration (2016), having practised law for some years. Her interest in Design led her to take a degree in Spatial and Interior Design at the Upper School of Arts and Design at Caldas da Rainha, which she completed in 2021, proceeding to a Master’s in Product Design, having completed the first year. She has a Master’s in Design for Health and Well-being, a pioneer in Portugal, which she completed with the dissertation titled “Design for Knowledge Dissemination: towards Ecological Well-being, a Design Case with sea urchins” where she proposes a new area of intervention for contemporary Design practice and research.

She is a research assistant at LiDA – Laboratory in Design and Arts of the Polytechnic of Leiria, researching ways of communicating R&D projects within different groups and the application of systems design to science management.

Her research interests include One Health, Ecological Well-being, Ecology and Photography.