Maria Teresa Ferreira is PhD in Anthropology, branch of Forensic Anthropology, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra. In the present, she is Coordinator of the Master of Forensic Anthropology and Vice-Coordinator for the branch of Forensic Anthropology of the PhD in Anthropology, both from the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra; Vice-deputy of the Centre for Functional Ecology ¿ Science for People & the Planet; Curator of the Collection of Identified Skeletons of the 21st Century, Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra. She is the PI of the research on the osteological collection of skeletons of African enslaved individuals exhumed from the Valle da Gafaria (Lagos, 15th-17th centuries). She investigates mainly in the areas of Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology. She worked, for a decade, on archaeological excavations (various chronologies, from the Mesolithic to the 20th century). She participated in nine forensic humanitarian missions in three continents, highlighting her participation in the Preservation of Memories Program of the Portuguese League of Combatants, and in the forensic expertise of the October 2017 massive bushfires in Portugal. She was also part of the BioCol-HIVs Project, funded by Indiana University, dedicated to Political, Social, and Cultural History of the Emergence of HIV/AIDS. She is currently part of the team of the Bakeng se Afrika Project (an Erasmus+ project). She has about 150 publications in articles and book chapters, and delivered around 240 communications and posters at congresses / seminars. She supervises 12 of master's and 6 doctoral theses, and 41 completed masters.