[3] Nicole Curato completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at the University of the Philippines Diliman.

[4] Curato is the recipient of Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellowship at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra.

Nicole Curato is widely recognized in the Philippines as a go-to analyst for television and web coverage of political affairs.

[3] Among her more prominent appearances, Curato served as a post-debate panellist at the Manila/Vice-Presidential leg of the COMELEC-led PiliPinas Debates 2016.

[20][21][22] In 2013, Curato was awarded as one of the Philippines' Ten Outstanding Young Men/People (TOYM) in the field of sociology, recognizing her contributions to the discipline and her role in shaping public discourse.