Degree in History, specialty in Archaeology, from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (1987). This training allowed me to deepen my scientific knowledge, work on the notion of Time and the relationship with technologies and materials, essential in cultural heritage. A Cultural Tourism course (1987) at the National Culture Center, with training in Historical/Artistic Heritage, Industrial Heritage, Natural Heritage, Urban Heritage and Ethnographic Heritage, led me to the field of transdisciplinary narratives. I worked at the Moita Municipal Museum to create the Cork Museum in an old cork factory. I studied the ceramics of the Convento de Jesus in Setúbal. Master's degree in Modern History (1996). The dissertation focused on the border castles of the Beira region, because it involved history, archaeology, art history, territorial analysis, geography, landscape architecture, geology and studies of materials such as stone. In 1996 I entered the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lisbon. I started teaching Art History, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management and Museology. My PhD in Fine Arts, branch of Art and Heritage Sciences (2005) was on Roman stone sculpture in Portugal. It combined archaeology, art history and museology. There was an inventory of the collections and a search for ideological discourse in the sculptures. After my doctoral thesis, I continued to study Roman sculpture. There was an extension to other areas, to support the disciplines taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts: History of prehistoric, ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary art, history of sculpture, anthropology and material culture, museology and curation, history of art Brazilian, theoretical fields of cultural and natural heritage. Art, associated with consciousness, spirituality and narratives, and art materials, namely stone, have been the focus of the research carried out. Bibliographical production, exhibitions, conferences, the organization of congresses, among others, reflect a thought and are the tip of an iceberg of constant work. A curriculum vitae is just a list of the much that is done and a path that is not in specialization, but in the discovery of human diversity that manifests itself in heritage and, as an expression of this, in art. Art is understood in its essence, as the narrative expression of spirituality, which is the fruit of consciousness. In this research and study process, a fundamental author has been António Damásio. The study of consciousness is a return to the origins of the Homo sapiens that we are. The Sanctuaries Congress: culture, art, pilgrimages, landscape and people emerged in this context of union of different areas of human spirituality. The study of materials such as ceramics and stone are important to understand the resources and materials of art. Tiles and stone sculptures are among the topics studied. Currently, my research object focuses on the origins of art and the relationship between art and territories with the sacred, it is a theme that enters into the issue of Art Theory, Art History and Archeology, but also Museology and in Curation, as storytellers. . In this sense, there are territories of choice, but there is, essentially, a search for understanding the relationship between art and spirituality, in different eras. There are many concepts and objects of study that are important to unite and deserve discussion, but this is always a stimulus. Investigating is a challenge.