Beatriz Silva holds a PhD in Artistic Studies – Art and Mediations from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University Lisbon, having produced the first doctoral dissertation in Portugal, and in the entire Lusophone world, on Chinese music. A sinologist by training, she holds a first degree in Oriental Languages and Cultures and a Master's in Portuguese-Chinese Intercultural Studies from the University of Minho, a path that included a year of study in China. She is affiliated with the Centre for Musical Studies (CESEM, NOVA FCSH), and is a member of the Musical Iconography Study Group of the International Musicological Society, as well as its regional associations ARLAC and IMSEA. Her current research addresses the relationship between music and propaganda in Mao Zedong's China, as well as musical iconography in Japanese ukiyo-e prints, with a growing interest in Portuguese collections of Asian art, an area in which she collaborates with the Fundação Oriente. She is also a Mandarin-Portuguese translator, having applied this skill in academic settings and, in public performances, through the subtitling of pieces sung in Mandarin. She has also studied singing since 2023, first at the Academia de Música de Viatodos and, since November 2025, at the Conservatório de Música de Barcelos, and in 2024 performed the recital Oriente Vermelho, devoted to Chinese revolutionary songs, as part of her doctoral research.