Miguel Pereira Lopes 

Miguel Pereira Lopes 

Miguel Pereira Lopes is an Associate Professor with Habilitation at the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lisbon where he coordinated the Human Resources Management Academic Department (Coordinator of the PhD, MSc, and BA), and served as an...
André Saramago

André Saramago

ANDRÉ SARAMAGO is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and Researcher at the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) and at the Orient Institute (OI). He has a PhD in International Politics...
Milena Moraes

Milena Moraes

Milena Moraes is a Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Coimbra since January 2024, on the SCREENHEALTH project, a cohort study with preschool children aiming to analyze trajectories in the use of electronic devices and the impact on physical and mental health....
Gabriela de Sousa Costa          

Gabriela de Sousa Costa          

I am a graduate of Sports Science (2022) and I am attending the master’s degree program in Exercise and Health, both at the Faculty of Sports Sciences and Physical Education of the University of Coimbra. The topic of my thesis focuses on the behavior of maximal and...
João Tiago Brito

João Tiago Brito

Graduated in Anthropology in 2019 from the Nova University Lisbon and a completed a master’s degree in Evolution and Human Biology in 2022 from the University of Coimbra. During this period, my work focused on the field of Paleopathology. Currently, a Ph.D. student,...
Beatriz Mouga Almeida

Beatriz Mouga Almeida

Beatriz Mouga Almeida is an accomplished scholar with a First-Class Bachelor’s degree in Forensic Science from the University of Greenwich in England. Her undergraduate journey sparked a profound interest in Forensic Anthropology, leading her to pursue a Master’s...
Luís Vale

Luís Vale

Social and cultural anthropologist, PhD student in Social Anthropology at the University of Coimbra, higher education teacher. Is field has been Trás-os-Montes, with particular interest in questions of identity, memory, popular religiosity, oral tradition, games,...
 Virtual Anthropology Laboratory

 Virtual Anthropology Laboratory

The CIAS Virtual Anthropology Laboratory is equipped with powerful computing and data management equipment to support analyses of large datasets obtained with medical imaging technology (e.g., microcomputed tomography [µCT] and standard CT), 3D surface scanning, and...
Veronica Wesolowski

Veronica Wesolowski

Visiting dates: 01 December 2023 – 10 June 2024 Universidade de São Paulo – Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia The main objective of the visit was to conduct research in management of the osteological collections and palaeopathology.

Developing a new method for the identification of cancer in archaeological populations: a multiscale approach to bone metastasis: micro-CT and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy as analytical tools for bioarchaeology (Duration: 2024-2026)

Duration: 2024/01/04 – 2026/03/31 Coordinators: Vítor Matos & Carina Marques Partner Institutions: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley – Edinburg Campus, United States; Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal; Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde...