Ana Duarte Rodrigues is professor of history of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She is the coordinator of the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), since 2nd January 2020. She is the Principal Investigator of the research project AQUA- HORTO AQUAM SALUTAREM - Water Wise Management in Gardens in the Early Modern period (2018-2021) and of SUSBEAUTY – Sustainable Beauty for Algarvean Gardens: Old Knowledge for a Better Future (2015-2020), both funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She is also the editor of Gardens and Landscapes journal, published by Sciendo.

She has received her BA (2002) in Art History, Master (2005) and PhD (2009) in Art History of Early Modern period from the FCSH/NOVA. From then on, she developed research on gardens and landscape studies. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Évora, where she began to study and work with landscape architects, definitely changing her focus of research from art history to gardens and landscape studies. She has published extensivelybooks, papers, book chapters, organized symposiums and did outreaching activities, such as exhibitions and participated in radio and TV programmes. Since the topic is highly multidisciplinary, she addressed it both from the perspective of history of art as well as history of science.

Therefore, in 2015 she joined CIUHCT as FCT researcher. In this context, she coordinated the research project SUSBEAUTY and she began to teach courses on gardens and science; science technology and the city; and Science & Art. In 2017, she got funding for her project AQUA in which she is working for the moment with a large international team of researchers, post-doctoral fellows, PhD and Master students. In 2018, she won the public tender to become assistant professor of history of science. She is now committed in broaden the sphere of action of the history of science and technology, to such an extent that it can highly contribute to the knowledge of the past as well as deepen our awareness of the planet's fragilities.