Gil Nata (PhD in Political Psychology) is an integrated member of CIIE-UP (Centre for Research and Intervention in Education of University of Porto). He has graduated in Psychology in 2000 and finished his PhD in Political Psychology in 2008. His research interests focus on sociology of education, political and community psychology, the civic and political participation of socially excluded people, and on socioeconomic inequalities. Over the past few years he has been mostly involved on research in social and educational inequalities.