Isabel Ferreira da Mota has a PhD in History from the University of Coimbra since 2001, where she is assistant professor since then. In 2004, she was awarded the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Prize in Modern and Contemporary History for her book "A Academia Real da História: os intelectuais, o poder cultural e o poder monárquico no século XVIII" (2003). She was a member of the executive board of "Biblos: Revista da FLUC" from 2015 to 2021, is a collaborator of CEIS20, a researcher of the Centre for History of Society and Culture (CHSC), a member of the editorial board of "Revista de História das Ideias", a corresponding academic of the Portuguese Academy of History and director of "Revista de História das Ideias". Her main areas of interest and research are: Cultural and Political History of the 18th Century; Transnational History; Historiography, Academies and Universities; Travel and the Republic of Letters; Political Practices, Visual Culture, and Material Culture.