???global.info.a_carregar???
Daniel Gamito Marques has been working as professional historian of science for 9 years, specializing in history of natural history (18th-20th centuries) and science and imperialism (19th-20th centuries). His current project researches the links between geography, colonialism and diplomacy in the Portugue Scramble for Africa. After a 5-year training in biology (BSc and MSc), he successfully completed a PhD in History of Science in 2015 at NOVA School of Science and Technology. He is currently Research Fellow at the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), a joint center of the NOVA University of Lisbon and the University of Lisbon. He has participated in 1 project funded by the European Commission (H2020 InsSciDE), and 3 projects funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He has published in international peer-reviewed jornals, including top references such as 'Isis', 'Archives of Natural History', the 'Journal of the History of Biology', and 'History of Science.' He has also published 5 book chapters, and 5 dictionary entries. He has delivered 30+ talks, 19 of which in congresses of international scope, and organized 5 panels in congresses. He has co-organized 2 sets of monthly conferences on history of science, and literature and science. He has co-organized 1 international congress, 1 national congress, and 1 international workshop. He has participated in 1 Anthropocene Campus, organized by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. He has lectured on science and imperialism, science diplomacy, bioethics, and literature and science. He lectured on current Europe-Africa relations and the history of science diplomacy in a summer school at the European Diplomacy Academy, Poland. He is part of 2 international commissions on history of science: Science and Empire, and Science Diplomacy, and he is linked to the international networks Tensions of Europe, and Anthropocene Commons. He has been developing new and creative ways to communicate his results through education, the press, and the performing arts. He has participated in 7 theater workshops, and he has written 2 theater plays that discuss historical knowledge of the sciences: 'The Science of the Future,' and 'All Too Human' (published in 2022). He also staged the former at the Museum of Natural History and Science, Lisbon, and at Culturgest. He has been involved in the establishment of the theater and science field in Portugal, integrating the scientific committee of two national congresses (2021, 2023). His academic achievements were distinguished with the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - NOVA University of Lisbon Prize.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Daniel Brito Candeias Gamito Marques

Citation names

  • Gamito-Marques, Daniel

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3F1A-E532-1648
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5734-3571

Email addresses

  • dgm@fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology
  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - History

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
French Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/05/08 - 2023/05/29
Concluded
Project Management Course (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
17/20
2018/11/12 - 2018/11/16
Concluded
Production of Science Communication Activities (Outros)
Centro de Ecologia Evolução e Alterações Ambientais, Portugal
2009/10 - 2015/01/30
Concluded
História, Filosofia e Património da Ciência e da Tecnologia (Doutoramento)
Major in História da Ciência
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
"The Lisbon Polytechnic School as a Teaching and Research Institution in Zoology and Botany (1837-1911)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Unanimously approved by the jury
2007/10 - 2009/12
Concluded
Biologia Evolutiva e do Desenvolvimento (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal
"Role of AI-2-mediated Quorum-sensing in the Colonization of the Mammalian Intestine" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
17/20
2004/09 - 2007/09
Concluded
Biologia Celular e Molecular (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Man-Microbe Interaction in Staphylococcus aureus: Toxicological Mechanisms and Immunological Considerations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
16/20
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Discussing problematic legacies of science through theatre: racism, misogyny, and skull measuring in The Science of the Future". In Routledge Companion to Performance and Science, edited by Johnson, Paul; Parry, Simon; Senior, Adele. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Matters of Life and Death: uses of historical knowledge of medicine in the theatre play All Too Human (Demasiado Humano)". In Theatre About Science: Theory and Practice, edited by Montenegro, Mário; Oliveira, Fernando Matos de; Cruz, M. Teresa Girão; Varela Amaral, Sara; Moreira, Francisca, 139-146. Coimbra, Portugal: University of Coimbra Press, 2023.
    Published
  3. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Intellectuals and the city. Private matters in the public space". In Science, Technology and Medicine in the making of Lisbon (1840-1940), edited by Ana Isabel Simões; Maria Paula Diogo, 344-365. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2022.
    Published
  4. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Science as power in the Scramble for Africa: Scientific Networks and the diplomatic colonization of Africa in the late nineteenth century". In Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe. Interdisciplinary Case Studies to Think with History, edited by Mays, Claire; Laborie, Léonard; Griset, Pascal, 27-34. Paris, France: Zenodo (European Commission), 2022.
    Published
  5. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Defender a identidade da metrópole através da política colonial: o papel dos naturalistas portugueses (1870-91)". In CIUHCT Companion: The first 15 years, 2007-2022, edited by Ana Isabel Simões; Maria Paula Diogo, 177-216. Lisbon, Portugal: Colibri, 2022.
    Published
  6. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Science in the Service of Empire. Andrade Corvo, Barbosa du Bocage and the defense of Portuguese colonial aspirations in Africa". In History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Construction of Portugal. Identity and the «Civilizing Mission», 19th Century, edited by Carneiro, Ana; Amaral, Isabel; Mota, Teresa Salomé, 119-139. Lisbon, Portugal: Tinta-da-China, 2021.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "The Reception of Transformist and Evolutionist Theories in the Portuguese Scientific Community: the case of the Lisbon Polytechnic School". Paper presented in Portuguese and Brazilian Congress of History of Science, Coimbra, 2011.
Dictionary entry
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Grande, José Maria (1799-1857)". In Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians in Portugal, edited by Maria Paula Diogo; Ana Isabel Simões; Amaral, Isabel; Rodrigues, Ana Duarte. CIUHCT, 2023. https://doi.org/10.58277/VRQX1231.
    Published
  2. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Coutinho, António Xavier Pereira (1851-1939)". In Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians in Portugal, edited by Maria Paula Diogo; Ana Isabel Simões; Amaral, Isabel; Ana Duarte Rodrigues. CIUHCT, 2023. https://doi.org/10.58277/NLFH4624.
    Published
  3. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Corvo, João de Andrade (1824-1890)". In Biographical Dictionary of Scientists, Engineers, and Physicians in Portugal, edited by Maria Paula Diogo; Ana Isabel Simões; Amaral, Isabel; Rodrigues, Ana Duarte. CIUHCT, 2023. https://doi.org/10.58277/GSUG8135.
    Published
  4. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Anticreationism". In The Antis' Dictionary. Portuguese Culture in Negative, edited by Franco, José Eduardo. Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 2018.
    Published
  5. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Antievolutionism". In The Antis' Dictionary. Portuguese Culture in Negative, edited by Franco, José Eduardo. Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, 2018.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "A Religious past to science: how Biblical stories have contributed to the construction of scientific knowledge". Metode: Science Studies Journal 14 (2024): 145-149. https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.14.26559.
    Open access • Published
  2. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Launching the Portuguese Scramble for Africa: the first geographical missions, 1875-1882". Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (2024):
    Submitted
  3. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "How to build a scientific discipline in the nineteenth century: in search of autonomy for zoology at the Lisbon Polytechnic School (1837-1862)". Science in Context 35 2 (2022): 103-131. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0269889723000169.
    Published
  4. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. Corresponding author: Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "The golden age (1862-1910) of the Zoological Section of the Museu Nacional de Lisboa (National Museum of Lisbon), Portugal". Archives of Natural History 49 1 (2022): 160-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2022.0765.
    Published • 10.3366/anh.2022.0765
  5. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Between an Old and a New Scramble for Africa? Using the History of Science Diplomacy to Understand the Present". Histoire, Europe et Relations Internationales 2 2 (2022): 53-63. https://www.cairn.info/revue-histoire-europe-et-relations-internationales-2022-2-page-53.htm.
    Open access • Published
  6. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "O poder do teatro enquanto espaço de materialidade". Translocal: Culturas Contemporâneas Locais e Urbanas 5 (2020): 1-8. http://translocal.cm-funchal.pt/2019/05/02/etiqueta_05/.
    Open access • Published
  7. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Science for Competition among Powers: Geographical Knowledge, Colonial-Diplomatic Networks, and the Scramble for Africa". Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 43 4 (2020): 473-492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202000016.
    Published • 10.1002/bewi.202000016
  8. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "In Praise of a Historical Storytelling Approach in Science Education". Isis 111 3 (2020): 582-587. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/711126.
    10.1086/711126
  9. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Defending metropolitan identity through colonial politics: The role of Portuguese naturalists (1870-91)". History of Science 56 2 (2018): 224-253. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275317722240.
    Published • 10.1177/0073275317722240
  10. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "A Space of One's Own: Barbosa du Bocage, the Foundation of the National Museum of Lisbon, and the Construction of a Career in Zoology (1851-1907)". Journal of the History of Biology 51 2 (2018): 223-257. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10739-017-9487-6.
    Published • 10.1007/s10739-017-9487-6
Magazine article
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "A Museum of One's Own", Ar Magazine, 2019, http://magazine.ar.fchampalimaud.org/a-museum-of-ones-own/.
Newspaper article
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Malhas que o racismo tece", Público, 2020, Cultura, https://www.publico.pt/2020/07/04/culturaipsilon/opiniao/malhas-racismo-tece-1922182.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "The Lisbon Polytechnic School as a Teaching and Research Institution in Zoology and Botany (1837-1911)". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2014. https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/14779.
  2. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. "Role of AI-2-mediated Quorum-sensing in the Colonization of the Mammalian Intestine". Master, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2009. https://repositorio.ul.pt/handle/10451/1486.

Artistic / Performance

Short fiction
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel. 2022. "All Too Human (Demasiado Humano)". In Encontros de Novas Dramaturgias - 5.ª edição, edited by Mickaël de Oliveira, 268-312. Porto, Portugal: Festival Encontros de Novas Dramaturgias.
Theatre play
  1. 2019. The Science of the Future (A Ciência do Futuro).
Visual artwork
  1. Gamito-Marques, Daniel; Lígia Soares; Oliveira, Micael; Coelho, Rui Pina. All Too Human (Demasiado Humano).
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/01/18 Theatre and Science: historical, conceptual, and dramaturgical interactions History and Philosophy of Science (Hi-Phi) Seminars
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/01/09 Science Diplomacy: a new methodological approach to international cooperation and competition E3GLOBAL Seminars
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/11/28 Citizen Science practices in biodiversity studies in the 19th century Portuguese Congress of Citizen Science 2023
University of Coimbra, Coimbra Municipal House of Culture, Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/11/23 A Scientific and Diplomatic Scramble for Africa: Barbosa du Bocage, Colonial Science, and the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 Workshop: Science Diplomacy: Approaches, Notions, and Objectives
Leibniz University Hannover (Hannover, Germany)
2023/11/16 A zoologist in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: the race for the Congo and the role of scientific networks, 1883-1885 7th Portuguese Congress of History of Science and Technology
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2023/11/15 The political and scientific impact of the first Portuguese modern geographical mission to Africa, 1875-1880 7th Portuguese Congress of History of Science and Technology
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2023/11/10 Matters of Life and Death: uses of historical knowledge of medicine in the theatre play All Too Human (Demasiado Humano) 2nd International Conference Theatre about Science: theory and practice
University of Coimbra, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/02/16 An All Too Human Theater: between History and Science in the Performing Arts Performance & Cognition Seminars
NOVA FCSH, ICNOVA (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/09/10 The political use of science in the diplomacy of the Scramble for Africa, 1875-1891 10th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium)
2022/07/14 Representing a new Portuguese Empire in Africa: the Cartography Commission and the Portuguese Scramble for Africa, 1883-1891 Counter-Image International Conference 2022: Decolonizing visuality
ICNOVA, NOVA FCSH (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/07/01 Scrambling for the unknown: the invention of Portuguese colonial Africa The 10th Tensions of Europe Conference: Technology, Environment and Resources
Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark)
2022/05/20 Towards an All Too Human Theater - giving center stage to histories of science ESAP Open Class
Escola Superior Artística do Porto (ESAP) (Porto, Portugal)
2022/03/10 Science for Competition among Powers: Geographical Knowledge, Colonial-Diplomatic Networks, and the Scramble for Africa STAND Early Career Seminar
Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND), IUHPST-DHST (Paris [online], France)
2021/07/30 Competing with giants: the alliance between science and diplomacy for the defense of Portuguese colonial claims in the Congo 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
Charles University (Prague [online], Czech Republic)
2021/07/29 In praise of a historical storytelling approach in science education 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
Charles University (Prague [online], Czech Republic)
2021/07/23 Expanding colonial borders: science, diplomacy, and military strategy in the formation of Angola (1883-1886) V CHAM International Conference
CHAM Centre for the Humanities (Lisbon [online], Portugal)
2021/05/21 Using science to reinforce an imperial identity: the Cartography Commission and Portuguese colonial politics in the Scramble for Africa Building National Character: Science, politics, and citizenship in 19th and 20th century Europe
University College London (London [online], United Kingdom)
2021/04/14 Knowledge of the deep sea in the nineteenth century as a result of circulation: the Hyalonema controversy BSHS Postgraduate Conference 2021
University of Leeds (Leeds [online], United Kingdom)
2021/02/10 Decolonizing the European city: deconstructing Lisbon's imperial urban geography 8th Postgraduate Forum Postcolonial Narrations
Justus Liebig University (Giessen [online], Germany)
2020/06/23 A Scientist in Diplomacy during the Scramble for Africa: Barbosa du Bocage between geographical knowledge and colonial-diplomatic networks Warsaw Science Diplomacy School 2020
European Academy of Diplomacy (Warsaw [online], Poland)
2019/11/15 The Museum as a Space for Knowledge Production in the Nineteenth Century II History and Philosophy of Science Conferences
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2019/07/20 A Scientific and Diplomatic Scramble for Africa: Barbosa du Bocage, colonial science, and the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 Diplomats in science diplomacy: Promoting scientific and technological collaboration in international relations
Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2018/07/11 Darwinian Echoes in Fernando Pessoa: from the Population Principle to the Malthusian Law of Sensibility in Álvaro de Campos's 'Ultimatum' (1917) 6th Portuguese Congress of History of Science and Technology
NOVA University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences and Technology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/03/20 Andrade Corvo's Colonial Politics: the role of an African empire for the defense of the Portuguese autonomy in a Europe in transformation (1870-1891) The Marks of Empire Seminar
NOVA University of Lisbon Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/12/21 Imaginative Biology: an online resource providing a new approach to Science Education A decade integrating biology (in) research and training: 10 years of the Master in Evolutionary and Developmental Biology
University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/11/21 The Different Shades of Lisbon: Progress, Corruption, and Pathology in Portuguese Literature of the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century Science and the City Seminar
University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/11/08 Andrade Corvo and the construction of Portugal's national identity through colonial politics Science and Empire Seminars
University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences ; Institute of Social Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/10/19 Constructing a Space for Zoology: Barbosa du Bocage and the Foundation of the National Museum of Lisbon CIUHCT Conferences
University of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/07/24 Imaginative Biology: an online resource providing a new approach to Science Education 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2016/11/09 The Improvement of Society: Between Thomas Malthus's Principle of Population and Fernando Pessoa's Malthusian Laws of Sensibility 4th Congress on Fictionalizations of Science in Great Britain
NOVA University of Lisbon Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/09/08 A Modernist Break with Tradition: Fernando Pessoa's Malthusian Laws of Sensibility and the Improvement of Society 2nd International Conference on Science and Literature
European Center for the History of Physics (Pöllau, Austria)
2015/11/04 Scientific communities as a limit to new discoveries The Limits of Science
Biology Students' Association, NOVA University of Lisbon (Monte de Caparica, Portugal)
2015/02/26 The Necessity of Artificial Adaptation: Darwin, Malthus, Álvaro de Campos and Fernando Pessoa's Antichristian Project III Literature and Science Conferences
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/02/21 Three Hundred Fathoms Under the Sea: Barbosa du Bocage and the Search for Marine Life at High Depths (1864-1874) 2nd HetSci Congress: The Internationalization of Science and Scientific Internationalism
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2012/11/01 Three Hundred Fathoms Under the Sea: Barbosa du Bocage and the Search for Marine Life at High Depths (1864-1874) 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science
University of Athens (Athens, Greece)
2012/09/27 Technoscientific Methods for the Resolution of Economical Crises: Andrade Corvo and the Modernization of Portuguese Agriculture (1853-1860) 3rd Portuguese Congress of History of Science and Technology
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2012/06/15 Knowing Africa by Looking Through a European Lens: Research on African Zoology at the Natural History Museum of Lisbon (1866-1895) 8th Iberian Congress of African Studies
Autonomous University of Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
2012/02/25 The Role of the Zoology Section of the National Museum of Lisbon in the Constitution of a Community of Naturalists in Portugal (1858-1907) International Congress on Spaces and Actors of Science in Portugal (18th-20th centuries)
NOVA University of Lisbon Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/10/27 The Reception of Transformist and Evolutionist Theories in the Portuguese Scientific Community: the case of the Lisbon Polytechnic School Portuguese and Brazilian Congress of the History of Science
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2011/04/18 From Theory to Practice: the Republican Turn in the Teaching of Zoology at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon (1880-1920) International Congress on the History of European Universities: Challenges and Transformations
University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/01 - Current The Constitution of J. V. Barbosa du Bocage's Scientific Network of Collaborators in Portugal. An Example of "Citizen Science" in the 19th Century
Co-supervisor
História e Filosofia das Ciências (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/16 - 2023/11/16 I organized the Panel 'Science, Diplomacy, and the Resolution of Crisis' at the 7th Portuguese Congress of History of Science and Technology. Its aim was to build on the work conducted in the H2020 project InsSciDE and explore cases of science diplomacy before WWII, thus contributing to the theorization of the understudied deeper past of science diplomacy (2023/11/15 - 2023/11/17)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023/11/15 - 2023/11/15 I co-organized the Panel 'Portuguese expeditions to Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries: between science and colonialism' at the 7th Portuguese Congress of History of Science and Technology. Its aim was to discuss the political and colonial meanings and repercussions of the several scientific missions to Africa that were organized by the Portuguese government during the Third Portuguese Empire. (2023/11/15 - 2023/11/17)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022/11 - 2023/11 I co-organized the FCT NOVA Cinema Club 2023, on the theme of Inclusivity. I selected films that explore the topic in relation to the history of science, technology and medicine, exploring subjects such as colonialism and racism, disease and the medical gaze, technology and the posthuman. The sessions took place in the auditorium of the FCT NOVA Central Library. (2023/03 - 2023/11)
Other (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/07/01 - 2022/07/01 I organized the Panel 'New Imperialism and the technoscientific construction of natural resources, 1870-1945' at Tensions of Europe Conference 2022. Its aim was to analyze the actors, tools, and ideologies recruited to drive colonial exploitation of natural resources, using a comparative approach to identify commonalities in the colonial strategies taken by different colonial powers. The notion of 'available natural resources' had often to be constructed in order to legitimize colonialism, with the help of technoscientific tools. (2022/07/01 - 2022/07/01)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
2022/06/23 - 2022/06/23 I co-organized a workshop with Léonard Laborie (Sorbonne University) on 'Instrumental relations or co-shaping of science and diplomacy?' at the InsSciDE Open Conference Paris. We dynamized conversations amongst small groups of researchers and practitioners in science diplomacy in order to discuss how science and diplomacy influence one another, and its implications for contexts of practice and teaching. (2022/06/23 - 2022/06/23)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Sorbonne Université, France

Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/02/21 - 2022/03/21 I co-organized with CIUHCT colleagues from the InsSciDE project an international conference on 'Science Diplomacy, Diversity and Global South,' the InsSciDE Open Conference Lisbon. It addressed different perspectives on how a new vision and practice of science diplomacy may be critical to bridge Global North's and Global South's interests. (2022/03/22 - 2022/03/25)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Sorbonne Université, France
2020/10 - 2021/12 I co-organized the online CIUHCT lectures, monthly gatherings in which researchers in the history of science, technology, and medicine are invited to present their own ongoing work. The Lectures constitute a meeting space for scholars at different career stages. Kathryn Olesko (Georgetown University), Matthew Stanley (NYU), and Céline Paillette (Sorbonne University) were some of the invited lecturers. (2020/10 - 2021/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/11/27 - 2021/11/27 I organized the Panel 'AnthropoScenes: the Anthropocene and the performing arts' at the 1st International Conference Theatre About Science. Its aim was to analyse the potential of performance and theatre to address the challenges of the Anthropocene by inviting authors, Isabel Costa and Daniel Gamito Marques, who have engaged with it in their artistic work. The debate was mediated by Juan Luis Toboso (Porto Art School), a curator and researcher with an extensive experience in curatorship. (2021/11/25 - 2021/11/27)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/07/29 - 2021/07/29 I co-organized with Karen Rader (Virginia Commonwealth University) the Panel 'Pedagogy and the History of Science' at the 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology. We brought together researchers who have independently developed new pedagogical approaches to science education infused by historical knowledge of the sciences. We discussed successful strategies and challenges encountered. (2021/07/29 - 2021/07/30)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
2020/10 - 2020/12 I co-organized with scholars from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities a set of conferences on Literature and Science, drawing together researchers from the history of science, technology and medicine, and comparative literature, in order to discuss themes of common interest. (2020/10 - 2020/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/06 I lectured a module in the 1st Warsaw Science Diplomacy School (WSDS) on the diplomatic role of scientific experts in the colonization of Africa, and its enduring political and diplomatic consequences in the continent. The WSDS consists in a one-week intensive course that provides trainees with historical case studies in science diplomacy and workshops on policy planning and future scenarios by various experts. The WSDS is a central initiative of the H2020 'Inventing a Shared Science Diplomacy for Europe' (InsSciDE) project. (2020/06/22 - 2020/06/26)
Workshop (Member of the Scientific Committee)
European Academy of Diplomacy, Poland
2019/03 - 2019/06 I co-organized with scholars from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities a set of conferences on Literature and Science, drawing together researchers from the history of science, technology and medicine, and comparative literature, in order to discuss themes of common interest. (2019/03 - 2019/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/07/09 - 2018/07/11 I organized with other postgraduate CIUHCT colleagues the 6th Portuguese Congress of History of Science and Technology, the main national event of the community. The congress is a biennial initiative that provides opportunity for scholars in the history of science, technology, and medicine to meet and exchange ideas. (2018/07/09 - 2018/07/11)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2016/02 - 2016/06 I co-organized with scholars from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities a set of conferences on Literature and Science, drawing together researchers from the history of science, technology and medicine, and comparative literature, in order to discuss themes of common interest. (2016/02 - 2016/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal

Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/10/03 - 2022/10/05 I participated in a three-day workshop conducted by Fred Moten (New York University), in which the topics of violence and racism were discussed though critical readings of Hannah Arendt, Frantz Fanon, Emmanuel Levinas, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Hortense Spillers, among others. The workshop was coordinated by Paula Caspão (University of Lisbon).
Workshop
Black Preformance: Violence
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Teatro do Bairro Alto, Portugal
2022/06/23 - 2022/06/24 I participated in the InsSciDE project's Concluding Conference in Paris, which showcased more than 4 years of work, addressed ongoing transformations in science and diplomacy such as open science and multilingualism, and looked towards future activities with the European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance.
Conference
InsSciDE Concluding Conference: New Horizons for Science Diplomacy
Sorbonne Université, France

UNESCO World Heritage Centre, France

European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance, France
2022/06/23 - 2022/06/23 I participated in a workshop facilitated by Stella Reschke (German Aerospace Center) and Luísa Veloso (ISCTE-IUL), in which we discussed how to incorporate ideas emerging from InsSciDE's 4,5 years of interdisciplinary research linking history, STS, and political science, in educational contexts.
Workshop
Competence building within science diplomatic communities
Sorbonne Université, France
2022/02/09 - 2022/06/20 I participated in an online seminar on historical research and archives, with a particular emphasis on colonial archives. It discussed the main historiographical debates that have marked the last decades, regarding the approaches that historians have developed in relations to archives, and the 'archival turn.'
Seminar
The Historian and the Archive
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/03/24 - 2022/03/24 I participated in a workshop with InsSciDE case study authors and invited experts to discuss cross-cutting themes and present-day applications of historical research on science diplomacy for teaching, training and everyday practice. My group focused on the theme of Science Diplomats. The discussions dissected power structures and vested interests that drive science diplomacy, questioned the concept of 'science diplomat', and probed the alleged capacity of science diplomacy to champion global challenge.
Workshop
InsSciDE Historical Case Studies of Science Diplomacy: Cross-Cutting Themes and Practical Applications
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Sorbonne Université, France
2022/03/22 - 2022/03/23 I participated in InsSciDE's third Open Conference (Lisbon). The event explored crucial themes in Europe's relationship to scientific expertise and influence. DAY 1 spotlighted the role of Science Academies in science diplomacy since the 18th century. In DAY 2 diverse stakeholders discussed the entanglements between science diplomacy and four topics deemed central to future action: Open Science, Anthropocene, Technoscience and Innovation, and New Actors and a New Definition of Science Diplomacy.
Conference
InsSciDE Open Conference Lisbon: Science Diplomacy, Diversity, and the Global South
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/03/22 - 2022/03/22 I chaired Session 2 of the congress 'International Action of Academies' on 22 March 2022. This congress built on previous exploratory work between InsSciDE and the European Network of Academies to delineate the role of academies as science diplomacy organizations, particularly concerning their international involvement and role in asserting science diplomacy.
Congress
International Action of Academies: Between Cooperation, Networking, and Science Diplomacy (18th to 21st Cent.)
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/10 - 2022/02 I was selected to the Laboratory of the New Dramaturgies Festival (coord. Mickaël de Oliveira) to develop a project in the performing arts, being tutored by an experienced artist, which in my case was the Portuguese theater maker Patrícia Portela. I participated with two other selected artists in the program's four artistic residencies, various workshops, seminars, and masterclasses by artists and academics in the performing arts. I wrote a theater play ('All Too Human'), which was later published by the Festival.
Workshop
Laboratory of the New Dramaturgies Festival (Festival END)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Etnomusicologia Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
2021/10/14 - 2021/10/16 I participated in a three-day workshop with the team assembled by Frédérique Aït-Touati and Bruno Latour, which has been exploring questions related to the Anthropocene in theater for several years by recruiting different mediums (video, scenography, philosophy, architecture, cartography, drawing). The workshop shared the different tools that the troupe has been exploring in the form of scenic and graphic research - a gaïa-graphy.
Workshop
Performing Arts Workshop - World Models
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Portugal
2020/02/14 - 2020/02/14 I participated in a public debate with other theater makers on the history, methods, and general themes of Documentary Theater as practised by Portuguese artists.
Round table
Looking at Documentary Theater with Honesty
Gerador, Portugal
2020/01/06 - 2020/01/11 I participated in the Anthropocene Campus (AC) Lisbon. The AC is an intensive, week-long summer school format for co-producing and co-learning that asks how knowledge production can be attuned to transdisciplinary and translocal methodologies that link insights of the natural and humanist sciences with other knowledge forms and practices. It explores pathways towards a novel transdisciplinary culture of knowledge production and education. I attended seminars on social inequality, and on gentrification.
Workshop
Anthropocene Campus Lisbon: Parallax
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany

Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Germany
2019/11/05 - 2019/11/07 I participated in a three-day workshop conducted by Shannon Jackson (UC Berkeley), in which we have presented our artistic work and discussed new approaches to the performing arts. The workshop is part of a series coordinated by Paula Caspão (University of Lisbon).
Workshop
Expanded Practices and the Performing Arts
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2018/11/14 - 2018/11/14 I participated in the PubhD, a public speaking event set in the informal environment of the pub in which researchers are invited to explain their work to a non-specialist audience in just ten minutes. I explained my PhD research on the history of the foundation of the first museum of natural history in Lisbon.
Meeting
Lisbon PubhD
PubhD de Lisboa, Portugal
2017/03 - 2017/05 I participated in a weekly seminar in playwrighting organized by Jorge Silva Melo, a renowned Portuguese theater director and playwright.
Seminar
On the Other Side - Theater Writing Seminar
Teatro Nacional D Maria II EPE, Portugal
2017/02/23 - 2017/02/23 I participated in a one-day workshop with the prize-winning author Mohamed El Khatib, in which he shared his interests and work methodologies. Khatib's play 'Finir en beauté' received the French Grand Prize of Dramatic Literature in 2016.
Workshop
Theater Writing Workshop with Mohamed El Khatib
Teatro Nacional D Maria II EPE, Portugal
2015/10 - 2016/06 I was selected to the Theater Writing Laboratory of the D. Maria II National Theater, Lisbon. This was a school for emerging playwrights that selected c.6 theater projects for further development, and benefited from supervision by a senior playwright (Rui Pina Coelho). The program had weekly group discussions, meetings with senior theater makers, and artistic residencies. I have written the theater play 'Europe', which was performed by the actors of the National Theater as a public reading, and later published.
Workshop
Theater Writing Laboratory
Teatro Nacional D Maria II EPE, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/07 - Current Science and Empire Commission, Division of History of Science and Technology, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST) Member
2019/07 - Current Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy, Division of History of Science and Technology, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST) Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2023/04/01 - 2023/04/15 2nd International Conference Theatre about Science: theory and practice University of Coimbra, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
2021/01 - 2021/02 1st International Conference Theatre about Science: theory and practice University of Coimbra, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/01/24 - 2024/02/23 Human Enhancement and Ethical Questions Open to all second-year students (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/12/11 - 2024/01/11 I served as jury in an international selection procedure for choosing a postdoctoral researcher in history of science as part of the project "KNOWledge networks in 19th century AFRICA: A Digital Humanities approach to colonial encounters and local knowledge in the narratives of Portuguese expeditions (1853-1888)" (KNOWAFRICA), financed by the Portuguese Fountation for Science and Technology Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2005 Faculty of Sciences and Technology Merit Prize
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Title

2024 Distinguished Young Scientist in the Humanities
Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal