Patrícia Silveirinha Castello Branco works as a researcher at CineLab/Ifilnova. She is the author of several essays as well as the book Image, Body, Technology. Haptics in New Technological Images (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2013) (Portuguese). She obtained her Ph.D in 2009 with a doctoral thesis on haptic visuality and technological images. She subsequently obtained a post-doctoral fellowship at IFILNOVA on the theme ' Cinema and Philosophy: Thinking the camera in Post-human, Post-photographic and Post-Darwinian Age'. Later, she held a position as Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior, where she served as the Director of the MA in Cinema and were responsible for several courses on philosophy and film, film theory and film history. She works mainly on haptic visuality and embodied perception, investigating on the sensory awareness and the role of the body in the artistic discourses of contemporary and classical art in relation with non-human perception, post-humanism and a new eco-sensorial criticism. Central to her research is the ongoing dialogue between philosophy and the arts. She is co-editor and founder of Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. Her most recent publications include: "Haptic Visuality, Sensation and Politics in Eisenstein’s film theory", Studies in Russian & Soviet Cinema (Published by Taylor & Francis), 16,, no 2 (forthcoming); "The Titans at the Heart of the Anthropocene. Diving into the non-human imagery of Leviathan" in Intimate Relations: Communicating in the Anthropocene, Lexington Books (2021); "The awakening of the body. ¿Film as Sensation¿ in the first French avant-garde", The Senses and Society, (Published by Taylor & Francis) (2020); "Herzog¿s Sublime and Ecstatic Truth. From Burke¿s Physiological Aesthesis to the Dionysian Unveiling " in the Philosophy of Werner Herzog, Lexington Books (2020); "Haptics, Body and Landscape in three key films of Portuguese Cinema", Revista Cinema & Território (2019); "An Eco-Posthuman Reading of Avatar, in Audiovisual Poshumanism", Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2017); "The Physiological Sublime in Aguirre in Klaus Kinski, Best of Cinema". McFarland and Co. (2016); POSTHUMANISM. HUMAN AND NON-HUMAN: LINKS, CONTINUUM, INTERPLAY ( Editor) Cinema - Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image (2015); "Post- and Transhumanism. An Introduction". Nanoethics, Springer (2015).