Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society (Group Coordinator)
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: cpadez@antrop.uc.pt
Phone number: + 351 239 240721
Research interests:
Childhood obesity and their association with social, familiar and environmental factos.
Socioeconomic status and Sedendary behaviors and their association with childhood obesity.
Ongoing Projects:
Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impacto f the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal
from 2009 to 2015 (PTDC/DPT-SAP/1520/2014)
Personal URL
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cristina_Padez/
Academia: http://coimbra.academia.edu/CristinaPadez/
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=4469147301938421
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: alsantos@antrop.uc.pt
Phone number: +351 239 240 718
Research interests:
Biological Anthropology; Paleopathology, History of diseases, Funerary Anthropology.
Skeletal Biology, Age-at- death, Paleodemography.
Pre-Columbian Caribbean.
Multidisciplinary approach to the study of human skeletal remains, articulating data
obtained directly from macroscopic and radiological observations with information
from secondary sources, such as documents, archives and iconographies.
The study of health in past populations in particular the spread of infectious diseases, as
a consequence of migration, socioeconomic changes and wars.
Evolution of diagnosis, therapeutic and prevention of diseases in the last millennia such
as the changes of behaviours and exclusion of patients from society.
Personal URL:
http://www.uc.pt/fctuc/dcv/pessoas/docentes/a_santos/index
Orcid: http://orcid.org/0000-0001- 6073-1532
Scopus: http://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.url?authorId=13204856100
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pzdUetYAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Luisa_Santos
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaLuisaSantos
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=3477900544307421
Researcher ID: A-1128- 2010
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: amgsilva@antrop.uc.pt
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ana_Silva44
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/AnaMariaSilva
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=8719481131162428
Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
Email: rodriguesari@hotmail.com
Research interests:
Biological, social and geographic determinants of health, and behavioural features of the lifestyle of our populations (i.e. sedentary behaviour, physical activity and nutritional habits) and how these variables may modify health-related quality of life.
Projects:
Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impact of the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal from 2009 to 2015 (PTDC/DPT-SAP/1520/2014)
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Aristides_Machado-Rodrigues
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1449522783040933
Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address: Departamento de Biologia Animal,
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa
Email: augusta.gama@fc.ul.pt
Phone number: + 351 217 500000
Research interests:
Causes for children and adolescent obesity: infancy factors; socioeconomic, familiar and physical environmental factors; lifestyles and psychosocial factors.
Obesity and age at menarche.
Ongoing Projects:
Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impact of the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal from 2009 to 2015 (PTDC/DPT-SAP/1520/2014)
The economic crisis and malnutrition in children and older adults: a pilot study in the municipality of Lisbon. FMH-UL, FC-UL, IHMT-UNL, ULHT
Personal URL:
http://www.researcherid.com/rid/N-1657-2015
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2143-8602
https://ciencias.ulisboa.pt/perfil/maantunes
Research group: Genes, Populations and Disease
Institutional Address:
Email: celeste.bento@chuc.min-saude.pt
Research interests:
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email: lopesc@ci.uc.pt
Research interests:
The main research interest focuses on:
- the study of populations of the past;
- paleopathology, in particular the spread of infectious diseases and their impact on human skeleton;
- History of diseases, evolution of diagnosis, therapeutic and prevention;
- Funerary Anthropology.
Ongoing Projects:
“A transição epidemiológica no interior de Portugal continental contada através dos ossos. Estudo demográfico e paleopatológico da coleção identificada de Évora.” – Investigação de pós-doutoramento financiada pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (SFRH/BPD/117128/2016)
Personal URL:
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=9747598328292698
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Celia_Lopes2
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/C%C3%A9liaLopes
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Phone number:
Email: c.y.henderson@uc.pt
Research interests:
My research interests focus on occupational disease and injury in past populations, predominantly in terms of their identification, but also their impact on the individual and the societies in which they lived.
This research focus stems from my studies of entheseal changes, widely used to study occupation in past societies. I continue to work on recording methods and the interpretation of data for these. I am also the leader of the working group on methodology set up after the Workshop on MSM, Coimbra 2009.
Ongoing Projects:
2012 – now. Postdoctoral research funding: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) SFRH/BPD/82559/2011. Title. Identifying occupation: a test using identified skeletal collections.
March 2013 – October 2013. Wenner-Gren Workshop Grant CONF-632. Grant to organise a workshop in Coimbra in July 2013 for the working groups on entheseal changes. Investigators: Dr S. Villotte, Dr C. Henderson, Dr F. Alves Cardoso and Dr G Perreard-Lopreno. Title. “Entheseal changes and reconstruction of human behavior: towards standardization”. Budget $11 397.January 2013 – October 2013. Wolfson Research Institute Small Grant. Exploratory grant for 9 months with start date January 2013. Principal Investigator. Dr G. King and co-investigators Dr
C Henderson and Dr R Gowland. Title. “The ecology of disease: using ELISA to test for seronegative spondyloarthropathies and their triggers in an archaeological context.” Budget £1000.
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Charlotte_Henderson
Academia: www.coimbra.academia.edu/CharlotteHenderson
DeGóis: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=6204914931789926
Research group: Genes, Populations and Disease
Institutional Address:
Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS),
University of Coimbra,
Research interests
I am currently interested on the study of the genetic basis of obesity, particularly the following lines:
– To identify new genetic variants associated with the susceptibility risk to develop an obese phenotype.
– To identify mutations in the MC4R and LEPR genes associated with monogenic obesity.
– To examine the methylation levels of several CpG sites.
Overall, I am interested in identifying a genetic profile to predict the obesity susceptibility risk.
Personal URL:
Curriculum vitae
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=6209402451024566
ORCID
http://www.orcid.org/0000-0001- 8899-9020
ResearchGate
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Addresses:
1) Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
2) Laboratório de Arqueociências, DGPC and LARC/CIBIO/InBIO
Email: davidmiguelgoncalves@gmail.com
Phone number: +351 213626328 (LARC)
Research interests:
I have a special interest in Forensic Anthropology, Human Osteology, Bioanthropological Methods and Funerary Anthropology with a special focus on ancient cremations and burned bones. I am currently coordinating the HOT Project. The main objectives are to improve our understanding of heat-induced changes to bone and teeth and to improve analytical methods that are specific to burned skeletal remains.
Ongoing Projects:
-Compilation of the first worldwide collection of experimentally semi-burned human skeletons. (Postdoc grant – SFRH / BPD / 84268 / 2012) – 54,030.00€ (FCT).[PI]
-HOT Project ResearcH PrOject of the CEI/XXI Burned SkeleTons
PI: David Gonçalves (CIAS/InBIO)
Other members: check http://www.hotresearch.wix.com/main
State: ongoing
Funded by: not funded
Dates: 2013-∞
Participant Institutions: Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology (U. Coimbra/PT); Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (PT); LARC/Cibio/InBio (PT); University of Teesside (UK); University of Sassari (IT); University of Cambridge (UK); Unidade de I&D Química-Física Molecular (U. Coimbra/PT); University of Leicester (UK)
-IRonBONE – Returning ‘metrics’ to osteometrics in burned human skeletal remains: estimating heat-induced dimensional change through spectroscopy
PI: David Gonçalves (CIAS/InBIO)
Other members: Luís Batista de Carvalho; Maria Paula Marques; Stewart Parker; Maria Teresa Ferreira; Angela Gonçalves.
Proponent Institution: University of Coimbra
Funded by: Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PTDC/IVC-ANT/1201/2014) – 54,514.00€*
Dates: 2015-2017
Participant Institutions: ISIS Facility – CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory; Research Centre for Anthropology and Health; University of Cambridge; Unidade de I&D Química-Física
Molecular (UC)
-ESTELA Project: systematization of the archaeological data associated to the South-Western script (Iron Age, South of Portugal)
PI: P. Barros (IGESPAR, IP); S. Melro (IGESPAR, IP)
Other members: Susana Estrela
State: ongoing
Funded by: Algarve Archaeological Association – 1,200.00€ (ongoing)
Dates: 2010-2018
Closed Projects:
– The peasant societies of the 1st millenium BC in Central Alentejo.[collaborator]
– The Algar do Bom Santo and the Neolithic societies of the Portuguese Estremadura
(6th-4th millenia BC). PTDC/HIS-ARQ/098633/2008 – 105,000.00€ (FCT).[collaborator]
Personal URL:
http://hotresearch.wix.com/main
https://coimbra.academia.edu/DGon%C3%A7alves
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Goncalves
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=5597260311810934
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email: fcurate@uc.pt
Personal URL:
DeGois: http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=7872612291835339
Academia: https://coimbra.academia.edu/FranciscoCurate
Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Universidade de Coimbra
Centro de Estudos de Geografia e Ordenamento do Território
Largo da Porta Férrea
Coimbra
3000-056 Coimbra
Portugal
E-mail: helenamarquesnogueira@gmail.com
Phone number: (+351) 239 857 033
Research interests:
Personal URL:
http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1664697102488240
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Helena_Nogueira2/info
Research group: Genes, Populations and Disease (Group Coordinator)
Institutional Address:
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS)
Department of Life Sciences
Email: lmanco@antrop.uc.pt
Phone number: +351 239 240 700
Research interests:
His work is mainly in genetic basis of human variation, in both normal and disease phenotypes.
He is actively interested in:
– genetic basis of complex diseases, including obesity and haematological conditions;
– molecular basis of human genetic diseases, with a particular focus on red cell enzyme
deficiencies;
– population genetic studies using common genetic variation in autosomal and Y-chromosome
loci.
Ongoing Projects:
P1: Genetic and environmental determinants of healthy ageing and longevity.
P2: Genetic basis of haematological conditions.
– Genetics of venous thrombosis (VT) risk.
– Fetal haemoglobin (HbF) gene regulation.
P3: Study of genetic variants associated with common and morbid obesity.
P4: Y-chromosome variation in Portugal: relationships with historical or demographic events
and patrilineal surnames.
P5: Ancient DNA analyses from human skeletal remains.
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública.
Rua Leopoldo Bulhões 1480, DENSP Bonsucesso
21041210 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ – Brasil
Email: lucianasianto@gmail.com
Research interests:
Conducts research in the areas of Parasitology and Ecology, on the following topics: Paleoparasitology, Paleoepidemiology, Paleoecology, Paleopathology, parasitism and host-parasite-environment relationships, origin and evolution of parasitic infections.
Personal URL:
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Luciana_Sianto
Research group: Genes, Populations and Disease
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade de Coimbra
Calçada Martim de Freitas
3000-456 Coimbra
Portugal
Email:
Research interests:
Genetics of Human Populations, Human Population Dynamics and Evolution.
Ongoing Projects:
Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa
Rua Carlos da Maia, 296
4200-150 Oporto, PORTUGAL
E-mail: raquel@ufp.edu.pt
Phone number: +351 22 5074630
Research interests:
Anthropometry; Appetite; Athletes; Body composition; Bone mineral density; Cancer; Cardiovascular Diseases; Children and Adolescents; Circadian Rhythm; Diet therapy; Eating Disorders; Elderly; Energy and nutrients; Food insecurity; Food intake; Health education; Hypertension; Jet Lag; Lifestyle factors; Neurosciences; Nutrition; Nutritional supplements; Obesity; Physical activity; Poverty; Pregnancy; Sleep; Sport; Young adults and Adults.
Personal URL:
CV DeGóis [http://www.degois.pt/visualizador/curriculum.jsp?key=1598787303963863]
Research group: Genes, Populations and Disease
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: rms@uc.pt
Research interests:
BSc in Anthropology from the University of Lisbon, with the specialty of Ethno-Cultural and Biological Anthropology Relations (2003). Holds a Post Gradutate Diploma in Human Evolution at the University of Coimbra (2007) and Master in Evolution and Human Biology also from the University of Coimbra. His Phd was in Biological Anthropology and Ethnoecology at Univeraidade Nova de Lisboa and Cardiff University-UK, having been awarded the title of Doctor Europaeus (2013). His postdoctoral studies were performed on the recently created HPI-Lab (Laboratory for Infectious Diseases Common to Human and Non Human Primates) in Brno, Czech Republic, belonging to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences (2012-2014).
He has experience in Molecular Ecology area and Mastozoology, being expert in Primatology, but also in Parasitology, Conservation Genetics , Phylogeography and Ethnobiology of African primates with emphasis on West Africa and especially in Guinea-Bissau, where he works since 2007. Its research interests relate to Intersectionality between Biology, Ecology, Biodiversity Conservation (and in general of other species), Emerging and neglected infectious diseases, primate aging and longevity, and ethno-cultural perceptions of wildlife. Methodologically he applies a myriad of comprehensive techniques in his studies; i.e. genetic, parasitological and ethnographic.
Ongoing Projects:
Aging and longevity in Coimbra district- ANT/00283
Closed Projects:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
Departamento de Ciências da Vida
Universidade de Coimbra
Email: sofiawas@antrop.uc.pt
Phone number: + 351 239 240 717
Research interests:
The main research interest focuses on the study of populations of the past, paleopathology, dental anthropology, the development and testing methodologies of sexual diagnosis, estimation of height and age-at- death.
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations
Institutional Address:
E-mail: tmf@uevora.pt
Research interests:
Human Paleopathology; human past populations
Paleopatologia Humana; Populações Humanas do Passado
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations 
Institutional Address: Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
Email: vcampanacho@gmail.com
Research interests:
I received my Bachelors Degree in Anthropology, from Faculty of Social and Humanities Sciences, New University of Lisbon in 2008, and my Masters degree in Evolution and Human Biology, from the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Coimbra in 2010. My Masters dissertation consisted in determining if occupation and physical activity influenced the bone degeneration rate at the pubic symphysis and iliac auricular surface in 19th and 20th centuries male Portuguese of known age. I received my PhD from the Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield (U.K.) in 2016. My PhD research consisted in determining if body size influenced the bone degeneration rate at the pelvic joints.
I have a keen interest at the field of age at death estimation, especially determining which factors influence bone degeneration in adults, in order to understand bone metamorphosis and how that may influence age at death estimation by skeletal remains. I also have been involved on the study of age estimation of immature individuals; cremated remains’ analysis; and the establishment of sex diagnosis methods. Currently, I am also involved in Paleopatological and epidemiological studies of past populations; and on the investigation of secular trends on femoral sexual dimorphism in Portuguese individuals since the 19th century.
Personal URL:
Research group: Past Cultures and Populations (Group Coordinator)
Institutional Address: Department of Life Sciences
E-mail: vmatos@antrop.uc.pt
Research group: Human Biology, Health and Society
Institutional Address:
Department of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities
Faculty of Human Kinetics
University of Lisbon
Estrada da Costa
1499-002 Cruz Quebrada – Dafundo
Portugal
Phone number: 00 351 214149100
Email: vmarques@fmh.ulisboa.pt
Research interests:
Tropical Populations; Human Biology; Childhood Growth and Development; Nutrition/Malnutrition; Determinants of Nutrition; Food Security/Availability; Nutritional Anthropometry. Public Health. Epidemiology; Cooperation.
Field Work Experience
2008 to present. Fieldwork in Guinea-Bissau, particularly in the regions of Bafatá, Gabú and Quinara within projects in the area of maternal and child health, nutrition and food security.
1988 to presente. Nutritional Anthropometry – Portugal.
Ongoing Projects:
2015- – Member of the research team of the project “Inequalities in childhood obesity: the impact of the socioeconomic crisis in Portugal from 2009 to 2015”;. PTDC/DTPSAP/1520/2014.
2014-2018- – Principal Researcher of the Project “A crise económica e a má nutrição em crianças e idosos: estudo piloto no Concelho de Lisboa”. FMH-UL, FC-UL, IHMT-UNL, ULHT.
2014-2016 – Researcher in the Cooperation Project “NHAMI BELDI – Promoção da Segurança Alimentar e Prevenção da Desnutrição nas regiões de Bafatá e Gabu, Guiné-Bissau”, coordinated by the NGOD Instituto de Solidariedade e Cooperação Universitária (ISU), in partnership with two Guinean NGO (ADIC-NAFAYA and GUIARROZ) and funded by Instituto Camões.
2013- – Member of the research team of the Project “Para um perfil populacional multidisciplinar do Sul de Angola: uma região chave para a compreensão do povoamento humano na África Austral”;/ “Towards a multidisciplinary population profiling of southern Angola: a key region for understanding human settlement in southern Africa”;. [PTDC/BIA-EVF/2907/2012].