Joana d'Oliva Monteiro. Integrated researcher from the Institute of Art History, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa/Research Group Museum Studies (MuSt). In 2021, with the project entitled Women's Invisible Work in Portuguese National Art Museums (2021.00290.CEECIND), she was awarded a Junior Reseacher contract from the Foundation for Science and Technology, in the context of the competitive Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus. She holds a PhD in Art History (Museology and Artistic Heritage; Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA) in June 2017. Her thesis, entitled Um modelo operativo de avaliação de exposições de arte. Estudo de caso: Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga ( An operational model for the evaluation of art exhibitions. A case study: the National Museum of Ancient Art), was supported by a grant awarded in response to a competitive call (SFRS/BD/70448/2010) funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and was also associated with the research project entitled Fontes para a História dos Museus de Arte em Portugal (Sources for History of Art Museums in Portugal) (PTDC/EAT-MUS/101463/2008), funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. She holds a degree in Art History and Heritage (Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon, 2006) and a Master's degree in Museology (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University, 2010). Her dissertation, entitled A Galeria de Exposições Temporárias do Mosteiro de Alcobaça - Reflexões e Contributos na óptica do discurso expositivo (Gallery of Temporary Exhibitions of the Alcobaça Monastery - reflections and contributions towards the exhibiting speech) was awarded the Best Museology Study Prize, by the Portuguese Museology Association. Since 2006, she developed collaborative work with a number of public and private cultural institutions, which has enabled her to obtain a wider view on researching, exhibiting, editing, communication and dissemination. She has carried out individual research in Art History, Museum History, Museology and Collecting, as part of research projects. In the last 5 years she has been involved in the organization of 11 scientific events and published papers in national and international publications. She has also been invited to lead some university seminars, on Museology; and she was co-leader of the scientific and editorial team for the project Dicionário Quem é Quem na Museologia Portuguesa (Who's Who in Portuguese Museology Dictionary ), as a fellow of the Art History Institute of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University, and previously of the Direção Geral do Património Cultural (DGPC) that also supported the project. Focusing on personalities who worked in Portuguese Museology from the 18th century to 1960 in different museum typologies (Art, Science, Anthropology, Archaeology, History and Ethnology ) the project has made a decisive contribution to the construction of historiography providing a basis for the understanding on the role of Portuguese museums in the international context. Currently she develops her research project entitled Women's Invisible Work in Portuguese National Art Museums (FCT - 2021.00290.CEECIND), closely with the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea (Lisboa). The results were partially published in the book chapter The invisibility cloak: unveiling the absence of women artists in the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea of Feminist Critique and the Museum: Educating for a Critical Consciousness (Amesterdam: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2020) and presented at the workshops Feminists and feminisms in museums and art galleries: International knowledge exchange and engagement with common research issues (organizated by the University of Victoria, CA, 2019); and at the Symposium Observations: Women in Art and Design History (organizated by the National Gallery of Victoria, 2022).