Patrícia Ferraz de Matos is an anthropologist, Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences (Instituto de Ciências Sociais [ICS]), University of Lisbon (Universidade de Lisboa [ULisboa]). She is a member of the teaching staff of the PhD in Anthropology (DANT) of ICS/ISCSP-ULisboa, since 2013, where she coordinated the Postgraduate Seminar in Anthropology (2020-2021) and co-coordinated the curricular unit Research Seminar in Anthropology (2013-2020). She is also: Associate Editor of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures (2020-2024); Deputy Director of the Análise Social journal (2021-2024); Convener of the Europeanist Network (EuroNet) of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (2020-2024); Correspondent Member, in Portugal, of the History of Anthropology Network (HOAN) of EASA, since 2019; Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, since 2019; and member of the Advisory Board of the International Association of Social Sciences and Humanities of Portuguese Language, representing the meritorious member ICS-ULisboa (2021-2025). She co-coordinated the seminars of ICS-ULisboa Research Group Identities, Cultures and Vulnerabilities (February 2019 - December 2020). She graduated in Anthropology (1997) at the University of Coimbra. She completed her Master's Degree in Social Sciences (2005) and her PhD in Social Sciences, specializing in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2012), both at ICS-ULisboa. She has published 26 articles in specialized journals and 12 papers in events proceedings. She has 19 chapters of books and 4 books published. She organized 56 events. She supervised 2 doctoral theses and co-supervised 3 doctoral theses. She received 6 awards and/ or honours. She participated in several research projects. She works in the area of Social Sciences with emphasis in Anthropology. In her professional activities she interacted with 24 collaborators in co-authorship of works. In her curriculum the most frequent terms in the contextualization of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural production are: History of Anthropology; Anthropology in Portugal; Scientific Societies; Schools of Anthropology; Nationalism; History of Science and Networks; Porto School of Anthropology; Portuguese Society of Anthropology and Ethnology; Mendes Correia; Science and Politics; Anthropology of Colonialism; Portuguese Colonialism; Colonial Expositions; Race and Racism; Racialized Representations; Eugenics; Miscegenation; Luso-tropicalism; Social and Gender Discrimination; Colonial Propaganda; Imperial Imagination; Colonial Films; Colonial Photography; Social Studies of Science. Prizes: Victor de Sá Prize in Contemporary History 2005; ERICS Prize (ICS-ULisboa/CGD) 2014; Scientific Prize - Honourable Mention (ULisboa/CGD) 2019.