Margarida José Rodrigues completed her degree in Archeology ( FLUL) in 2018, with a final grade of 17. As a student, she participated in fieldwork carried out in the Sado shell midden settlements within the framework of the Sado/Meso project, directed by Professors Mariana Diniz (Faculty of Letters of Lisbon) and Pablo Árias (University of Cantabria), and in Monte Molião, in Lagos, under the direction of Prof. Ana Margarida Arruda. In 2021, she defended her master's thesis, having obtained a classification of 18. Since 2016, she has been a collaborator in the Monte Molião na Antiguidade Project, directed by Ana Margarida Arruda, having participated in excavation campaigns and the treatment and study of archaeological materials from this important site in the Western Algarve. She was hired by UNIARQ and the Municipality of Lagos to treat archaeological materials from Monte Molião, having carried out the marking, inventorying, drawing and classification of remains collected there between 2015 and 2019. She published 3 articles in journals and presented 3 posters at international conferences, having 2 of those been later published in the conference proceedings as articles. She was part of the organizing committee of the XIV Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica (JIA). She was awarded the PhD scholarship FCT 2022.11304.BD to carry out the project “A ocupação romana da Baía de Lagos: leituras através da Terra Sigillata”.