Doctoral students

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Dora Sofia Chan Roseira Dias completed her PhD in 2024. She wrote a thesis on the history and implications of the Human Genome Project in Portugal: "The Human Genome Project: Communication, impact, and bioethics in Portugal"  [FCUP, 3 Apr. 2024]. I co-supervised this work with Maria Manuel Jorge (Faculty of Arts, University of Porto) and João Carlos Paiva (Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto).

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Master students

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Maria das Neves Gomes wrote a remarkable dissertation on António Ribeiro Sanches: "From Portugal to Russia: The Many Lives of the Eighteenth-Century Physician Ribeiro Sanches (FCUL, 30 Jan. 2023).  Maria surveyed an impressive range of sources in Latin, German, English, Portuguese, and Russian and was able to clarify several misconceptions about the Portuguese physician. I supervised her work together with Henrique Leitão. Maria is currently a doctoral candidate at the Centro de Estudos Clássicos.

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Current MSc students

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Anabela Monteiro de Paiva has recently started to work on the teaching of mathematics in modern Portugal. [Completion expected in 2024].

 

Maria Teresa Pena Wemans is researching the medical works of Pedro Hispano. [Completion expected in 2024].

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Marta dos Santos Gonçalves Passadeiras is working on the history of astrology in Portugal. Among other things, Marta's thesis will include a much-needed census of the books of astrology owned by ecclesiastical libraries up to 1834. I am co-supervising her work with Henrique Leitão [Completion expected in 2024].

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Maria Carolina de Oliveira Resende is writing a dissertation on the practice of astrology in seventeenth-century Portugal. Her research focuses on the technical analysis of two well-known almanachs. I am co-supervising her work with Henrique Leitão [Completion expected in 2024].