Since 2024: Research associate at the IKM (PhD Student), RPTU Kaiserlautern-Landau

2021 - 2023: Scholarship supported member of the Computational Communication Science Research Group, TU Ilmenau

2018 - 2020: Master of Arts: Media and Communication Science, Technische Universität Ilmenau

2004-2008: Bachelor: Social Communication with Habilitation in Public Relations, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Brazil

Barreto-Storandt, F & Domahidi, E. One field, two realities: a computational study of topic divergence and academic capital in Latin American and international research, Annals of the International Communication Association, Volume 50, Issue 2, June 2026, Pages 157–170, https://doi.org/10.1093/anncom/wlag013

Barreto de Souza Martins, F;Yu, J., & Domahidi, E. (2023). A global health crisis with divided research traditions? A comparative review of Brazilian and international research in communication on the COVID-19 pandemic. Annals of the International Communication Association, Volume 47, Issue 4, December 2023, Pages 479–496, https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2023.2242817

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., & Domahidi, E. (2025, June 12-16). Global Disparities in Communication Science: The Intersection of Latin American and International Research [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 75th Annual Meeting, Denver, United States of America.

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., (2025, June 12-16). Bias Amplified: Sexual Objectification in User-Trained Text-to-Image Models [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 75th Annual Meeting, Denver, United States of America.

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., (2024, November 21-22).  The Double-Edged Sword of Open-Source AI Image Generation: Assessing Sexualization and Bias in User-Trained Models [Paper presentation]. Generative Images – Generative Imageries: Challenges of Visual Communication (Research) in the Age of AI, Bremen, Germany

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., & Domahidi, E. (2024, September 24–27). What do underrepresented scholars write about? Exploring the thematic content of Latin American and international communication research [Paper presentation]. 10th ECREA European Communication Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., Yu, J., &  Domahidi, E. (2023, May 25-29). A Global Crisis With Divided Research Agendas? A Comparative Review of Brazilian and International Research in Communication on the Covid-19 Pandemic [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 73rd Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.