Integrated researcher with a doctorate from the CHAM - Centre for Humanities of the NOVA University of Lisbon, and collaborator at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) of the University of Coimbra (UC), Débora Dias is the editor of Gerador - an independent platform for journalism, culture, and education, and a consultant in History at the Vila Sustentável School (Lisbon). She is also a member of the management committee of the International Network for the History of Pedagogies, Cultural Heritage, and Didactic Materials in the Portuguese Language, with institutions from Portugal, Brazil, and Cape Verde. Author of academic articles and books in History, Education and Librarianship, mainly on the following topics: social history of books, reading and publishing, libraries, Luso-Brazilian exchanges, exiles, authoritarianism, cultural policies, circulation of knowledge, the thought and trajectory of the Portuguese educator Joaquim de Carvalho and the internationalism of the educator Paulo Freire. She is a member of its Research Group on Information, Reading, and Forms of Writing (CHAM - FCSH NOVA) and collaborates with the Art Currents and Intellectual Movements (Ceis20-UC). She gained her PhD in Contemporary History at Departamento de História, Arqueologia e Artes da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, with the thesis "The "rediscovery" of Brazil in Joaquim de Carvalho. A Luso-Brazilian community made of books (1928-1958)". The research was funded by the Capes-Brazil Full Doctorate Abroad Program. Main researcher in the project 'The Portuguese and Brasiliana: Bibliophilia, the Book, and Intellectual Exchange at the Mindlin and Borba de Moraes Libraries', of the Institutional Programme for Archival Research at University of São Paulo (USP). Master in Social History from the Federal University of Ceará (2010), with the thesis Impressões do tempo. Os Almanaques no Ceará (1870-1908), she was a fellow of the National Programme for Academic Cooperation (Procad), at the University of Campinas (Unicamp, São Paulo-BR). With the support of the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, she was the principal investigator of the project "Luso-Brazilian Exchanges in Print Circuits" (2011-2012), which dealt with a topic dear to the history of education: the reading and circulation of almanacs. She has a degree in Social Communication - Journalism from the Federal University of Ceará (2003). She writes for periodical press in Brazil and Portugal. She has experience in team management and scientific dissemination.