Ciência ID: 801C-F398-2CE7 

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0856-1956 

She has a PhD in Modern History (University of Minho) and a master’s degree in History of the Discoveries and Modern History of Portugal (NOVA FCSH) with research studies on the ransoming of captives in North Africa by the Order of the Holy Trinity. She has been an integrated researcher at CHAM – Centre for the Humanities, a research unit of NOVA FCSH and the University of the Azores, since 2012. Coordinator and principal investigator of the project MOVING CITY - Cities made for war: a European army in late Sixteenth-Century Morocco (EXPL/HAR-HIS/1521/2021), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and coordinator of the project COEXIST – Forced migration in the Mediterranean world: Identities, contacts and integration of Christians and Muslims support by CHAM, NOVA FCSH. She works as researcher at the Gabinete de Estudos Olisiponenses (Lisbon Studies Office) in the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Lisbon City Council, where she was one of the coordinators of the project Hospital  Real de Todos-os-Santos: The city and public health in the Modern Age (NOVA FCSH, CMLisboa) and, where, in recent years, he has developed studies on health policies and prevention of plague outbreaks in the history of Lisbon. She has experience as a researcher in cultural heritage, cultural dissemination and the history of Lisbon and Portugal, with several publications and presentations at national and international scientific conferences.

Ciência ID: 7618-F11F-408F

ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2119-3684

Master in Early Modern and Contemporary History and Doctor in Early Modern History (both in University of Minho, Portugal).

Vice-dean of CHAM (Centre for the Humanities), NOVA FCSH, UAç.

Director and scientific coordinator of Anais de História de Além-Mar – Annals of Overseas History, 2014-....Vice-Director of Estudos & Documentos (STUDIES & DOCUMENTS COLLECTION), CHAM- Coordinator of the Research Group Political and Institutional Configurations CHAM, 2014.

Lecturer at FCSH (masters in Early Modern History). Advisory board member of H-NET Portugal COST Actions Expert proposer.

Permanent member of the scientific board of Portuguese Military Commission (Ministry of National Defense).

Vice-president of Genealogy, Heraldic and Phaleristic Commission (Lisbon Geographic Society).

He has published numerous books, chapters and articles, and has contributed to the dissemination of culture through the media (television, newspapers and podcasts). In addition, he has received awards and research grants in Portugal and abroad. His research interests include social mobility, multiculturalism, Jewish history, diaspora, genealogy, heraldry, purity of blood, aristocracy, Atlantic trade, tobacco, Iberian kingdoms, slavery, smuggling, laws, courts and judges.

Ciência ID: E412-F453-E31E 

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8829-2655

Is an integrated researcher at the Portuguese Centre for the Humanities (CHAM). Completed her PhD at Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon (1988); and Aggregation (1998). She was professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Universidade of Minho and visiting professor at Universities in French and Italy. Her researcher expertise is on the area of Portuguese Empire in Asia and Morocco (XV-XVII centuries) with a focus on cultural and social History, imperial literature and in editing narrative sources. She is author of books and published widely in national and international journals. As main researcher or team member, has participated on several research projects related with her specialty.

Ciência ID: 7B1E-5C56-D49C

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4635-4096

Rui Loureiro has a PhD in History from the University of Lisbon (1995). He is currently an associate professor at ISMAT - Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes, in Portimão. He is a researcher at CHAM - Centro de Humanidades, a research center at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is also a member of the Navy Academy. He is the author of more than a hundred academic publications (including books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals, papers in conference proceedings, etc.) on the history of Portugal and Spain's relations with the extra-European worlds in the 16th and 17th centuries. He has also dedicated himself to editing Portuguese and Spanish texts from this period on the Asian world.

Ciência ID: 4017-C099-5A8E

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8543-1111

Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM), Paulo Catarino Lopes is also Associate Researcher at CHAM – Humanities Center, both Research Units of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas) of Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH), academic institution in which he obtained the degrees of Master and PhD in History after graduating in the same scientific domain at the School of Arts and Humanities (Faculdade de Letras) of Universidade de Lisboa (FLUL). Having as field of specialization Medieval History, his research interests focus on the following themes: mobility, circulation and travel; representations of identity, otherness and interculturality; international relations; cultural relations; emotions.