Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa has a degree in History (2008) by the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH); an MA in Medieval History (2010), by NOVA FCSH, with a thesis about Lisbon's leper house and the attitudes towards disease in the late Middle Ages.; and a PhD in Historical Archivistics (2016), by NOVA FCSH and the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, which was funded by a Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) PhD scholarship. During the PhD, Rita studied the production, management and uses of noble family archives during the 15th and 16th centuries. She is currently undertaking a post-doctoral research project (2017-2021), funded by an FCT post-doctoral scholarship, about the institutional configurations of premodern noble families as corporate bodies. Rita was a member of the research teams of the international projects INVENT.ARQ (2013-2015), hosted by NOVA FCSH, and ARCHIFAM (2013-2015), hosted by the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez). She is currently collaborating in the outreach activities of the VINCULUM project, funded by the European Research Council. In 2015-2016, Rita co-supervised a research project involving 13 History undergraduate students, who conducted the study and archival description of a 19th century family archive inventory. The results of the project were published and presented in 2 conferences, and the archival descriptions are available in open access. She has lectured in several courses, workshops and training seminars and was a member of the academic jury of 1 MA thesis (NOVA FCSH) and 1 PhD thesis (Universidad La Laguna, Canary Islands). She has received an award for best MA student in History at NOVA FCSH in 2011 and an honorary mention at the II Premio Olga Gallego de Investigación en Arquivos in 2017. Rita has co-edited 2 books, published 5 journal articles, 2 catalog entries and 2 essays in non-academic publications. She has also published 6 book chapters and submitted 2 others, one of them to be published in the Casa de Velázquez Publications. Rita has co-organized 4 international conferences and is currently in the organizing committee of the 2021 Archival and Education Research Institute. She has presented papers in conferences in Portugal, Spain, France, United Kindgdom and in the United States, where she presented her research at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). She was also the scientific co-coordinator of 3 elective courses, including the first Post-Graduation in Historical Archivistics. Rita is an integrated member of the Centro de Estudos da População, Economia e Sociedade (University of Porto) and an associated member of the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (NOVA FCSH).