Fernanda Olival is Associate Professor at the University of Évora and a researcher at CIDEHUS (Interdisciplinary Centre for History, Cultures and Societies), which she directed in 2013–2019 and again in 2022–2025. She received her PhD from the University of Évora (2000) and completed the Agregação (habilitation) at the same institution (2008). She holds an MA (1989) and a BA (1984) from the University of Lisbon. Her international experience includes visiting appointments at the University of São Paulo (2005), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2007), and Brown University (2023). She teaches Early Modern History and methodological courses. Her research addresses Early Modern socio-political history - particularly Military Orders and the Inquisition - alongside Digital Humanities, with a focus on Natural Language Processing; since 2020, she has also investigated the materiality of writing. Her key monographs include The Military Orders and the Portuguese Expansion (15th to 17th centuries) (2018), D. Filipe II de cognome “O Pio” (rev. ed., 2008), and As Ordens Militares e o Estado Moderno: honra, mercê e venalidade em Portugal (1641–1789) (2001). Publications: https://uevora.academia.edu/FOlival Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ezvpREIAAAAJ&hl=en Note: the CV remains to be completed, particularly for the period prior to 2017.