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2014

PhD, History of Science

2009

MSc, Biochemistry

2007

BSc, Biochemistry

 

About

I am a Research Fellow at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science (DHFC) and the Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), at the University of Lisbon. In 2017 I worked at the Institute of Advanced Jesuit Studies, Boston College, as Senior Research Fellow. In 2019 I worked at the Oxford Centre for European History, and Exeter College, University of Oxford, as a Visiting Researcher.

My research interests include early modern science, science and religion, science and education, Jesuit science, book history, and censorship.

 

I am currently working on a few book projects, namely 1) A survey on the History of Science in Portugal [PT]; 2) An edited volume on the history of Science and Religion in Early Modern Christianity (with Neil Tarrant and Cornelis J. Schilt) [EN] 3) A history of the Jesuits in Portugal [PT] and 4) a monograph on The Globalization of Science in the Early Jesuit Missions [EN].

 

The latter will summarize the findings of a six-year research project, funded by FCT, I.P. which seeks to assess the motivations and strategies employed by European Jesuits to be sent to the Portuguese missions, and the role of science in the global strategy of the Society of Jesus between 1540 and 1759 (2023–2028).

I am also working on a couple of other projects, including the edition of a diary kept by a Jesuit historian in mid-twentieth-century Portugal (with Maria João Pereira Coutinho and António Júlio Trigueiros) [PT].

When time allows it, I hope to collect my articles on the Inquisition and the Censorship Science in Early Modern Portugal​ in a book.

In 2022, I wrote A Biblioteca Erudita de Campolide: A história de uma biblioteca jesuíta dispersa pela República ​(Cascais: Lucerna, 2022), which sets out to tell the history of the library of the Jesuit College of Campolide.

In 2019, I published Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal (Leiden: Brill, 2019), a monograph on Jesuit science and education in nineteenth and twentieth-century Portugal.

In 2018, I wrote Os jesuítas em Portugal depois de Pombal. História ilustrada (Cascais: Lucerna, 2018), which offers an illustrated history of the Jesuits in Portugal between their restoration in the nineteenth century until present times.

In 2015, I revised my dissertation and published Ciência, prestígio e devoção: Os jesuítas e a ciência em Portugal (séculos XIX e XX) (Cascais: Lucerna, 2015).

 

Between 2015 and 2017, Henrique Leitão and I edited the selected works of the molecular geneticist and Jesuit scientist Luís Archer: Obra Selecta do Padre Luís Archer, S.J., 4 vols. (Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2015–2017)

I am a member of some national and international societies, including the Renaissance Society of America, the History of Science Society, and the British Society for the History of Science, where I served as an International Adviser (2019–2021). 

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