Since nearly 40 years, PFQ has been active in Portugal on the creation and development of new research structures and disciplines concerning the study of the Portuguese Ancient Territories. Since its formation in 1982, she collaborates (with José Mateus) in the development of the "Laboratório de Paleoecologia" (LP) a research structure created first in the National Museum of Archaeology (Lisbon), transferred to the Natural History Museum (Univ. Lisbon), and, later one, to the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology (Ministry of Culture), where she was an invited researcher until 2009. Together with José Mateus, she organised several international scientific meetings, participated in international consortia, and formed several technicians, specialists, and researchers in disciplines and technologies absent from the curricula of the Portuguese Universities. PFQ was an invited professor of two Masters Erasmus Mundus (UTAD University and Tomar Polytechnic Institute). With specialized training in the Netherlands, PFQ main research topic is the Evolution of Ancient Territories, within the trans-disciplinary interface between the Life and the Human Sciences, namely Ecology, History and Archaeology. She is expert on disciplines new to the Scientific curricula in Portugal - Historical Landscape Ecology, Archaeo-Ethnobotany, Palynology, Palaeobotany (Carpology, Dendrology, Antracology), Vegetation History and Landscape Evolution - as well as more traditional Geobotany and Plant Ecology. PFQ worked extensively with GIS applied to the eco-physiographic characterization of regions and sites of conservation-value (such as the sites of NATURE 2000 network) in the scope of international and national research consortia, particularly on DEM construction, on remote sensing and thematic cartography, and on ecological parameter simulation, derived from tridimensional landscape models. More recently, she developed research on Historical Archaeobotany, with main focus on the reconstruction of daily-life production and consumption activities of Medieval and Modern-Epoch urban and rural populations. In the scope of her more recent research, computer graphics has been elected as the natural extension of computational disciplines previously mastered such as numerical analysis and geospatial analysis (GIS); 3D modelling adopted as an ideal form to revive the memory of old landscapes, villages, towns and their monuments, and videogames selected as a powerful way to introduce actively human protagonists in their complex simulated habitats. Within computer graphics applied to arts and cultural and natural heritage - virtual restitution of past landscapes and their ancient territories - PFQ worked on 3D modelling of land-use features, regional flora elements, urban and rural architectures, mobile artefacts. In the field of programming, PFQ has been working on game engines either with DirectX and with the Unreal and the Unity game engines. She also has experience on webpage design. Since 2007 PFQ was engaged in the development of TERRA SCENICA, and, in 2014, of OLDTOWN GAMETALES - private studios for the creation of videogames with Heritage, Science and Arts, aiming a fertile trans-disciplinary encounter between Science, Heritage, Art and Information Technology. In 2017 she co-found the Double-u Replay Associação, a non-profit society for the research, preservation, outreach and virtual and vivid recreation of the cultural and ecological memory of the ancient heritage territories. She is presently working with GAMERSGRASS on plant and habitats replicas and dioramas. Presently, her main research interest is the development of tridimensional replicas and videogame prototypes applied to ancient territories reconstruction (both natural and cultural) and the development of projects for the application of videogame technologies to the virtual experimentation, ecological simulation, learning and dissemination of our common Natural and Cultural Heritage.