Ana Beatriz Santos earned her PhD in Archaeology and Prehistory from the School of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon, in 2025. Her doctoral dissertation, “Animal Consumption and Management in Olisipo between the 2nd Century BC and the 5th Century AD,” was funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under grant reference 2020.06605.BD. As part of her doctoral training, she completed an internship at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany), where she acquired laboratory expertise in Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS). She also completed a traineeship in Stable Isotopic Analysis of Archaeological Dental Remains at the Institució Milà i Fontanals – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IMF-CSIC) in Barcelona. In recent years, she has conducted archaeological research as a freelance professional, collaborating with both public and private institutions. Her experience includes participation in numerous archaeological excavations and specialised zooarchaeological analyses of faunal assemblages ranging from the Palaeolithic to the Modern period, with expertise in Roman equids, both at the morphological level and through more advanced scientific analyses. She has published several contributions in peer-reviewed academic journals.