My professional trajectory is distinctly transdisciplinary, shaped by a long-term commitment to translating knowledge into socially meaningful outcomes. The central axis of my academic work is food and foodways, serving both as the subject of my research and as a lens for examining interactions between history, geography, and anthropology. My academic path began with an MA in African History and Literatures (UFRJ, 2014–2016). Although this research focused on literary analysis, it revealed that Angolan writers encoded foodways as practices of resistance. This insight led me to pursue a parallel professional qualification as an Executive Chef (SENAC-RJ, 2015), equipping me with practical skills to translate historical knowledge into tangible, socially relevant applications. From this moment, I began developing the methodological competence that now characterizes my work: transforming historical evidence into teachable and socially useful knowledge. This orientation was further shaped during my PhD in Social History of Culture (PUC-Rio, 2017–2021), which examined territoriality and everyday food access under late Portuguese colonialism (1945–1975). Combining archival research with extensive fieldwork (2018–2019), I conducted interviews, visited markets and informal food circuits, and built long-term relationships with producers, displaced peri-urban communities, fishers, and women traders central to the city’s food provisioning. Learning Kimbundu deepened this immersion, revealing how local knowledge, culinary techniques, and spatial mobility structured adaptive strategies in urban food provisioning. The methodological originality of this work – integrating oral history, archival research, food ethnography, and culinary practice – led to teaching invitations across Brazil and Angola. My shift toward Environmental History was consolidated in 2024 through a postdoctoral fellowship (BIPD) at the Centre for History, University of Lisbon. Funded by FCT/MCTES, I have been collaborating with the development of the Anthropocoasts Transdiciplinary Coast Lab within the Project UIDP/04311/2020. This collaboration has expanded my understanding of the material and social dynamics of Luanda’s shoreline and has clarified a central outcome of my PhD: the historical importance of fish in the city’s provisioning. This work now anchors my research agenda in environmental humanities and food studies.. I am also member of the Africas Research Group (UERJ/UFRJ/ISCED-Huíla); African History Study Group (GEAH/PUC-Rio); member of the Brazilian Association of African Studies (ABE-África) and of African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA); collaborating researcher of the History and Nature Research Group (UFRJ) and of the Center for African Studies at the University of Porto (CEAUP).