Cláudia Gomes Duarte (1979) is an architect with a professional degree from the University of Lusíada of Porto (2006). She completed a Post-Graduation in Built-up Heritage ("Património Arquitectónico") fom the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, with the dissertation "Religious Buildings as Landscape Elements in the Coastal and Riverine Villages: Vila do Conde and Azurara", supervised by professor Marta Peters de Oliveira. In 2020, she completed a PhD in Architecture, in the Built-up Heritage program, at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, with the dissertation "Territory as a System: Spatial Government and Architecture of the Society of Jesus in the Captaincy of Espírito Santo, Brazil (16th-18th centuries)", supervised by professors Carla Garrido, Nelson Pôrto Ribeiro, and Renata Almeida Martins. Between 2006 and 2009, she worked as an architect in Valência, Spain, in the studios of "San Juan Arquitectura" and "Estudio Carlos Meri Cucart". Since 2009, and in parallel to her professional practice, she has taught in various Portuguese state schools, in the areas of Geometry, History of Art, and Animation Film 2D/3D. She is currently an integrated researcher at the Overseas History Center “Centro de História de Além-Mar” (CHAM), at NOVA University of Lisbon.