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Catarina Reis Santos is a Ph.D. fellow in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the Department of Conservation and Restoration and Research Unit VICARTE - Glass and Ceramics for the Arts, at FCT-NOVA (Portugal). She finished her bachelor's degree in 2016 and her master's degree in 2018 in Conservation and Restoration, with a specialization in Glass and Ceramics. As a result of her master's degree, she presented and published her work at an international conference and published an article in a specialized journal. After she finished her master's, she initiated her career as a conservator with the purpose to achieve experience apart from the academic community developing analytical and critical skills, as well as decision-making processes. In 2020 she won a doctoral grant to continue her research work in the field of Portuguese glass arcana and the Portuguese glass industry.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Catarina Reis Santos

Citation names

  • Reis Santos, Catarina
  • Reis Santos, C.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
DA1B-2A91-DC71
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8793-8883

Email addresses

  • acre.santos@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)
  • catarinareissantoscr@gmail.com (Professional)

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2021/02 - 2025/02
Ongoing
 PhD in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (Doutoramento)
Major in Conservation Science
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
"The science and the secrets of glass production in Portugal from the 18th-20th centuries" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/09/12 - 2018/11/22
Concluded
 Master in Conservation and Restoration (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A Indústria dos segredos: os arcanos de vidro portugueses dos séculos XVIII-XX" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2013/09/16 - 2016/06/27
Concluded
 Bachelor in Conservation and Restoration (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/02 - Current PhD fellow Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
(...)
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2021/02/01 - 2025/01/31 A ciência e os segredos da produção de vidro em Portugal entre os séculos XVIII-XX
2020.09269.BD
10.54499/2020.09269.BD
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/07/01 - 2024/07/19 Arcana - the science and the secrets of glass production between the 18th and the 20th century: an analysis of the historical batch books
not applicable
Principal investigator
Corning Museum of Glass Juliette K and Leonard S Rakow Research Library, United States
 Corning Museum of Glass Juliette K and Leonard S Rakow Research Library
Ongoing
2021 - 2023/12 Craft-HUB
616676-CREA-1-2020-1-IE-CULT-COOP2
Collaborator
European Commission Creative Europe
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - 2023/12/31 Glass and Ceramic for the Arts
UIDB/00729/2020
10.54499/UIDB/00729/2020
PhD Student Fellow
Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal

Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Reis Santos, Catarina; Carneiro, Ana; Coutinho, Inês. Corresponding author: Reis Santos, Catarina. "Hidden secrets in 18th to 20th century glassmaking: The contribution of science for the past and the present of the Portuguese historical glasses". Paper presented in American Chemical Society Spring 2023, Division of the History of Chemistry - Session Science in Support of Technical Art History, Indianopolis, 2023.
    Published
  2. Reis Santos, Catarina; Carneiro, Ana; Coutinho, Inês. Corresponding author: Reis Santos, Catarina. "Portuguese arcana: Evolution through time". Paper presented in Materiais 2023 – XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and XII International Symposium on Materials, Guimarães, 2023.
    Published
  3. Coutinho, Inês; Borges, Beatriz; Stephen Koob; Reis Santos, Catarina; Márcia Vilarigues. "VTERE-FELICITER: The materiality of a Portuguese archaeological roman glass collection conservation and restoration case-study". Paper presented in Materiais 2023 – XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and XII International Symposium on Materials, Guimarães, 2023.
    Published
  4. Alexandra Rodrigues; Reis Santos, Catarina; Coutinho, Inês; Vilarigues, Márcia. "Unravelling Uranium Uses: U-yellow glass as a fashionable material in the 19th century". Paper presented in Materiais 2023 – XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and XII International Symposium on Materials, Guimarães, 2023.
    Published
  5. Reis Santos, Catarina; Coutinho, Inês; Márcia Vilarigues. Corresponding author: Reis Santos, Catarina. "The Value of Reproduction in the Preservation of Glass Cultural Heritage". Paper presented in Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2022 - 6th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group, Lisbon, 2022.
    Published
  6. Reis Santos, Catarina; Coutinho, Inês. Corresponding author: Reis Santos, Catarina. "A ciência e os segredos da produção de vidro em Portugal, entre os séculos XVIII-XX". Paper presented in IV Congresso Ibero Americano de Investigações em Conservação e Restauro, Lisbon, 2022.
    Published
  7. Reis Santos, Catarina. "Químicos ou vidreiros - Arcanos de vidro portugueses do século XIX-XX". Paper presented in The evolution of Chemistry: Impacts on society - 1st National Meeting of History of Chemistry, Aveiro, 2021.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Reis Santos, Catarina; Palomar, Teresa; Dabas, Prashant; Coutinho, Inês. "Studying and decoding the secrets hidden in the 18-20TH centuries Portuguese GLASS ARCANA". Paper presented in VI International Conference YOCOCU, Matera, 2018.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Reis Santos, Catarina; Ruivo, Andreia; Coutinho, Inês. Corresponding author: Reis Santos, Catarina. "The study of the Portuguese glass arcana with the tools of the future". Paper presented in Technart 2023, 2023.
  2. Coutinho, Inês; Borges, Beatriz; Stephen Koob; Reis Santos, Catarina; Vilarigues, Márcia. "VTERE-FELICITER: The materiality of a Portuguese archaeological roman glass collection conservation and restoration case-study". Paper presented in Materiais 2023 – XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and XII International Symposium on Materials, 2023.
  3. Reis Santos, Catarina; Coutinho, Inês; Márcia Vilarigues. Corresponding author: Reis Santos, Catarina. "The Value of Reproduction in the Preservation of Glass Cultural Heritage". Paper presented in Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2022 - 6th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group, 2022.
  4. Reis Santos, Catarina. "A ciência e os segredos da produção de vidro, em Portugal, entre os séculos XVIII e XX". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência 2022, 2022.
Edited book
  1. n/a. Annales du 22e Congrès de l’Association Internationale pour l’Histoire du Verre. Caparica, Portugal: NOVA FCT Editorial. 2024.
    Under revision • Assistant staff
Journal article
  1. Santos, C.R.; Vilarigues, M.; Dabas, P.; Coutinho, I.; Palomar, T.. "Reproducing crystal glass from three 18th-20th centuries Portuguese glass arcana". International Journal of Applied Glass Science 11 4 (2020): 743-755. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85085618209&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1111/ijag.15611
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Reis Santos, Catarina. "A Indústria dos segredos: os arcanos de vidro portugueses dos séculos XVIII-XX". Master, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/61566.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/04 Portuguese arcana: Evolution through time Materiais 2023
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (Guimarães, Portugal)
2023/04 Unravelling Uranium Uses: U-yellow glass as a fashionable material in the 19th century Materiais 2023 – XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and XII International Symposium on Materials
Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais (Guimarães, Portugal)
2023/03 Hidden secrets in 18th to 20th century glassmaking: The contribution of science for the past and the present of the Portuguese historical glasses American Chemical Society Spring 2023, Division of the History of Chemistry - Session Science in Support of Technical Art History
American Chemical Society (Indianapolis, United States)
2022/10 A ciência e os segredos da produção de vidro em Portugal, entre os séculos XVIII e XX IV Congresso Ibero Americano de Investigações em Conservação e Restauro
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/04/27 Fraturas e iridescências: do romano até à era industrial 6ª Edição da Temas em Arqueologia
Museu Municipal Santos Rocha (Figueira da Foz, Portugal)
2021/09 Químicos ou vidreiros - Arcanos de vidro portugueses do século XIX-XX 1st National Meeting of History of Chemistry
Portuguese Chemical Society (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/05/23 Studying and decoding the secrets hidden in the 18-20TH centuries Portuguese Glass Arcana VI International Conference YOCOCU
Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Matera, Italy)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/12/09 - 2023/12/09 VICARTE Open Day (2023/12/09 - 2023/12/09)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2023/07/05 - 2023/07/19 Exhibition "CraftHub International Exhibition Investigating Craft Practices Across Europe", FCT NOVA Library, Exhibition Room, Caparica, Portugal. Assistance with exhibition set-up (2023/07/05 - 2023/07/19)
Exhibition (Other)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2023/06/15 - 2023/06/30 Exhibition "CraftHub International Exhibition Investigating Craft Practices Across Europe | Local showcase pieces", FCT NOVA Library, Exhibition Room, Caparica, Portugal. Assistance with exhibition set-up (2023/06/15 - 2023/06/30)
Exhibition (Other)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2023/02/24 - 2023/02/24 Workshop "Vem conhecer o Vidro" to 7 highschool students (2023/02/24 - 2023/02/24)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/02/01 Workshops CraftHub - On the making of Alumina Crucibles (2023/02/01 - 2023/02/01)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2023/02/01 - 2023/02/01 Workshops CraftHub - On the making of Mould for Alumina Crucibles (2023/02/01 - 2023/02/01)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2022/11/29 - 2023/01/19 Exhibition "À Descoberta do Vidro: da Ciência à Arte", FCT NOVA Library, Studio Room, Caparica, Portugal. Preparation of exhibition materials and assistance with exhibition set-up (2022/11/29 - 2023/01/19)
Exhibition (Other)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2022/12/16 - 2022/12/16 Workshop "What is Glass?" to 40 highschool students (2022/12/16 - 2022/12/16)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2022/12/10 - 2022/12/16 VICARTE Open Day (2022/12/10 - 2022/12/16)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2022/06 - 2022/11 Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation 2022: 6th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group (2022/11/09 - 2022/11/11)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/06/18 - 2022/09/11 Exhibition "À Descoberta do Vidro: da Ciência à Arte", Centro Ciência Viva de Alviela, Portugal. Preparation of exhibition materials (2022/06/18 - 2022/09/11)
Exhibition (Other)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2021/12/11 - 2021/12/17 VICARTE Open Day (2021/12/11 - 2021/12/17)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2021/05 - 2021/09/17 22nd Congress of the Association International pour l'Histoire du Verre and ICOM Glass Annual Meeting 2021 Lisbon, Portugal (2021/09/13 - 2021/09/17)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03 Open Day of Conservation, celebrating the 20 years of the Degree in Conservation and Restoration and the European Year of Heritage, including an exhibition "an artist like you have never seen him" - Organizing committee of the event; Exhibit assembling; Welcome delegation and guide to the visiting to Department's laboratories (2018/03 - 2018/03)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/09 - 2022/09 Activities for the dissemination of the research projects and the fields of action of the VICARTE Research Unit
Other
 European Researchers' Night
Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2018/03 - 2018/03 Futurália 2018 - Organization and dissemination of the Conservation and Restoration course structure at FCT-NOVA.
Other
 Futurália 2018
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Activities from the museum
Other
 European Researchers' Night
Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
2017/09 - 2017/09 Activities for the dissemination of the research projects and the fields of action of the VICARTE Research Unit
Other
 European Researchers' Night
Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023/02/08 - Current APAI - Associação Portuguesa de Arqueologia Industrial Member
2021/01 - 2022/12 YOCOCU Portugal Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2016 - 2018 Pedagogical Commission for Conservation and Restoration - Presentation and problem solving of the department's student body; Organization of lectures and workshops.
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/10/03 - 2023/10/03 Diagnóstico e Conservação de Cerâmica e Vidro Conservação - Restauro (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/05/25 - 2023/05/25 History of Glass and Ceramic | Class taught by Catarina Santos, Carla Machado, Anna Cristoforetti and Paul van Laar Glass and Ceramic Art and Science (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/04/20 - 2023/04/20 Conservação e Restauro de Cerâmica e Vidro Conservação e Restauro (Mestrado) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/11/14 - 2022/11/14 Diagnóstico e Conservação de Cerâmicos e Vidro | Class taught by Catarina Santos and Anna Cristoforetti Conservação - Restauro (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/09/20 "Frascos, globos de luz e muita documentação: a colecção da Fábrica de Vidros das Gaivotas está a ser estuda" | Interview with the research and conservation team that is carrying out the consultation and inventory of the Gaivotas Factory collection at the Seixal Municipal Ecomuseum. Público

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/02/02 - 2024/02/02 Rádio na Rua | Interview with the research and conservation team that is carrying out a conservation and inventory internship of the Gaivotas Factory collection at the Seixal Municipal Ecomuseum.

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2024/01 - 2024/02 Preventive conservation of the Gaivotas Glass Factory Documentary Collection Ana Pinto
2024/01 - 2024/02 Internship: Preventive conservation of the Gaivotas Glass Factory Documentary Collection Luís Visser, Carlota Lopes, Lara Saburlu, Marta Cunha, Inês Sambado, Ana Santos, Ana Rosa
2023/09 - 2024/01 Glass reproductions from historical recipes - dichroic glass Zoe Bedford, Zuzanna Gillert
2023/06 - 2023/07 Internship: Preventive conservation of the Gaivotas Glass Factory Documentary Collection Marta Damaso, Rita Batista, Ana Ramalho, Heloisa Ikeda, Beatriz Godinho, Madalena Rodrigues
2023/03 - 2023/07 Internship: Reverse engineering: Study of blue Portuguese glasses from 18th to 20th centuries through batch books Sarah Pecci
2023/03 - 2023/06 Preventive conservation of the Gaivotas Glass Factory Documentary Collection Andreia Silva
2022/09 - 2023/02 Glass reproductions from historical recipes - yellow glass Nour Ali
2022/03 - 2022/07 Internship: Material Chemistry in Cultural Heritage: Reproduction of old Portuguese yellow glasses recipes Adeline Rabaça
2022/03 - 2022/07 Research project about reproduction of green recipes Sofia Pires
2021/09 - 2022/01 Research project about kintsugi Sofia Pires, Patrícia Javgureanu
2017/09 - 2018/01 Introduction to Conservation and Restoration I (DCR FCT NOVA bachelor's degree) Núria Cardoso

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/07/15 - 2021/07/15 Jury of curricular unit 'Project 2' (MSc in Conservation & Restoration): Pintura Reversa sobre vidro by Beatriz Coelho Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/01 - Current Consultation and inventory of the Fábrica Gaivotas Collection at the Seixal Municipal Ecomuseum. Description of the documents in the collection, analysis of their content, and dissemination as part of the study on the glass recipes of the Gaivotas Factory. Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2023 Rakow Grant for Glass Research