I am Art Historian (PhD 2005) and Researcher at the Center for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in the Thematic Line «Europe and the Global South: heritages and dialogues»: . My studies focus on the 17th- and 18th century arts and architecture. I am specialized on "quadrature" painting (architectural frescoes), and its connections with architecture, set design and theater. I am particularly interested in Italian, Iberian and Atlantic cross-cultural artistic exchange. Currently, I am developing my research in the area of patronage and artistic agency by Africans and people of African descent in early-modern Portugal, as well as by women, in particular the queen Maria Ana of Habsburg as promoter of Italian opera in 18th century Portugal. My individual project is «Early-modern art and architecture, Atlantic slave trade and cross-cultural dynamics. The case of African Portugal between heritage and the politics of recognition» (2019-2025). It was first, within its category, in the concourse of the FCT - Individual Competition to Encourage Scientific Employment (CEECIND /04792/2017/ CP1402/CT0009). In 2019-2020, I co-led the project «1719-2019. Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Scarlatti e o papel das mulheres na promoção da ópera e do teatro em Portugal», with Luís Soares Carneiro, which was funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Between 2018-2021, I was member of the research team of the European project «ECHOES European Colonial Heritage Modalities in Entangled Cities» (H2020-SC6-ENG-GLOBALLY-2017). I also was Steering Committee's coordinator of the European project «Bahia 16-19. Salvador da Bahia: American, European and African forging of a colonial capital city» (PIRSES-GA-2012-318988). Recently, in my book «O projeto de D. João V. Lisboa ocidental, Mafra e o urbanismo cenográfico de Filippo Juvarra» (Lisbon: Caleidoscópio, 2020), I revisited the history of arts and architecture in Portugal during the first half of 18th century, redrawing in 3D the projects of the Italian architect Filippo Juvarra. In 2021, I co-edited the collective book «Filippo Juvarra, Domenico Scarlatti e il ruolo delle donne nella promozione dell'opera in Portogallo» (Rome: Artemide, 2021). I am an interdisciplinary researcher due to my training as musician and art historian. I was, also, flautist in chamber music's groups and Amnesty International activist. As citizen, I am engaged in the promotion of Human Rights and in broadening the access to art and culture for all. In 2017, with the historian Hugo Ribeiro da Silva (University of Porto), we produced 5 videos for the secondary schools on the history of slavery within the early-modern Portuguese empire («O Atlântico dos Outros»). As author, I am collaborating with a group of artists to produce the docufilm «Uma outra voz», that uncovers the women's role in 18th century Portuguese music and arts. As first step of this production, in 2020, the Portuguese television RTP had selected, and partially funded, this project.