Verena Lindemann Lino is invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences at Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP) in Lisbon and Integrated Researcher at the Research Centre for Communicatio and Culture (CECC). Between May 2022 and Februrary 2025 she was Junior Researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CEEC Institucional UIDP/00126/2020). She holds a PhD in Culture Studies from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany (co-tutelle program within the realm of the European PhDnet in Literary and Cultural Studies). She obtained her MA in Translation Studies at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, her BA in Modern Languages at Universidade de Lisboa and her B.Sc. in Psychology at University of Hagen (Germany). Her PhD thesis discussed the cultural dimensions of memory of migration, exile and flight in the context of artistic negotiations of the refugee presence in Portugal in the 1930s and 1940s. She is the author of Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal (2021) and co-editor of Negotiations of Migration (2021), among other publications. Her main research interests include Intercultural Communication, Transculturality, Migration, Memory Studies, Translation Studies, and Comparative Literature. She has been particulary active in the organization of international scientific events and in the promotion of outreach and career development activities.