Alexandre Monteiro holds a degree and a postgraduate degree in Archaeology from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the New University of Lisbon (FCSH/UNL) and in Scientific Diving from the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL). He holds a Diploma of Advanced Studies in History, a PhD specializing in Archaeology, also from FCSH/UNL, where he was a guest lecturer in the disciplines of Nautical, Maritime and River Archaeology, Contemporary Archaeology and Maritime Archaeology (Project). He is a member of the Navy Academy and a research associate at the University of Western Australia, the Institutes of Archaeology and Palaeosciences and History. Territories. Communities of the New University of Lisbon (UNL) and the University of Coimbra (UC) as well as the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation of Texas A&M University. Specialist in Palaeography and documentary research in historical archives, he locates, transcribes, documents and compiles historical information on shipwrecks from the Medieval, Modern and Contemporary periods, information with which he organizes, in geographic information systems, shipwreck databases from several countries, including Portugal, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Mozambique, Cape Verde and Uruguay. He has directed or co-directed environmental impact mitigation work on the underwater cultural heritage of the Azores, the Portuguese mainland and the United Arab Emirates. He has collaborated with several international institutions in order to identify and prevent treasure hunting actions in the seas and illicit trafficking of cultural goods, being a consultant to the governments of Cape Verde and the Azores, as well as to UNESCO, an institution with which he has collaborated in training, training and clarification actions. She co-directed the European project Forest resources for Iberian Empires: Ecology and Globalization in the Age of Discovery (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, Marie-Curie Action), led by the Spanish state agency Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas. Professionally, he was a senior technician at the National Center for Nautical and Underwater Archaeology (CNANS) of the Ministry of Culture. He also collaborated with the Mission Structure for Maritime Affairs (Ministry of National Defence) in the project Profundis - Virtual Museum of Underwater Cultural Heritage. Currently, he is co-coordinator of the OPP 2018 Project A Dive into History and science manager at the European University. Finally, he is the author or co-author of several dozen scientific articles and more than a hundred texts for dissemination to the general public, being an effective member of the Professional Association of Archaeologists (APA), the Australasian Institute for Maritime Archaeology (AIMA) and the International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS).