Francesca holds a PhD in Art History from FCSH, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. In 2022, she was a visiting doctoral researcher at EHESS–CNRS in Paris, collaborating with the research group China, Korea, Japan. In addition to her academic work, Francesca is deeply engaged in theoretical and methodological explorations within global history. Her research focuses on the circulation of artists within the French Jesuit mission in China during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, shedding light on the cultural exchanges and artistic interactions of that period. She is particularly interested in transoceanic artistic circulations in the early modern world, as well as in the study of entangled devotional practices, Jesuit sacred materialities, and cross-cultural encounters across early modern Eurasia.