Amélia de Aguiar Andrade

ROSSIO Principal Researcher

Amélia Aguiar Andrade is a Full Professor in the History Department of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and director of the Mário Sottomayor Cardia Library and the Documentation Centers of this institution. Representative of Portugal as National Coordinator at DARIAH, she is also a senior researcher at the Institute of Medieval Studies.

Daniel Alves

Representative of NOVA FCSH Research Units

Daniel Alves is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History and at the Institute of Literature and Tradition Studies. Editor of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, he is a consultant on projects in the area of applied digital methodologies to historical research.

Helena Neves

Lisbon City Hall Representative

Helena Neves is the division chief at the Lisbon Municipal Archive. Graduated in History from the University of Coimbra, with a postgraduate degree in Documentation Sciences from the same university. She started her professional activity in 1989, at the Archive of the Lisbon City Hall, where she took on the role of director in 2017.

Teresa Barreto Borges

Representative of the Portuguese Cinematheque – Museum of Cinema

Teresa Barreto Borges has a degree in Communication from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and a postgraduate degree in Documentation Sciences from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. In February 1993, she joined the team at the Cinematheque Documentation and Information Center, a service she has been coordinating since June 1998.

Cátia Carvalho

Representative of the Library and Documentation Division of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities

Cátia Carvalho has a master degree in Information Sciences and Digital Libraries, from ISCTE-IUL. She currently serves as Head of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities Library and Documentation Division.

Silvestre Lacerda

Representative of the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries

Silvestre Lacerda is Director-General of the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries and Director of the National Archive Torre do Tombo. He has a degree in History from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto, and a specialization course in Documentation Sciences, option Archive, from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. He is a member of the Latin American Archives Association and the Intergovernmental Committee on Iberarchivos. He represents Portugal on the European Board of National Archives and, since 2016, he has been the Chairman of the Committee of Experts of the UNESCO National Commission on the Memory of the World Program.

Ana Paula Figueiredo

Representative of the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage

AAna Paula Figueiredo holds a PhD in Art, Heritage and Restoration from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She was an inventory technician for Architectural Heritage at the Directorate-General for National Buildings and Monuments, at the Institute for Housing and Urban Rehabilitation and at the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage. She taught Art History and was responsible for training courses on the History of Tiles and Ceramics. She is currently Head of the Division of Archives, Documentation and Library / Forte de Sacavém in the Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage.

João Vieira

Representative of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

João Vieira has a degree in History from NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and a postgraduate degree in Documentation Sciences – Archives from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. He is currently the Director of the Library of Art and Archives of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Between 2007 and 2014 he was director of SIPA – Information System for Architectural Heritage (Forte de Sacavém).

Cristina Faria

Representative of the National Theater D. Maria II

Cristina Faria has a degree in History from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, a master’s degree in History from the 19th and 20th Centuries (section of the 20th century) from the same school and a postgraduate degree in Documentation Sciences from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. In 2009 she joined the National Theater D. Maria II team and assumed the Directorate of Documentation and Heritage, a service she has been coordinating since 2010. Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities.