Patricia Trindade Monteiro is a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, and holds a PhD grant of the Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) at University of Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a BA in Architecture and Urbanism and a postgraduate degree in Green Spaces Management at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. She was a grantee of the AQUA Project, and in that context obtained the master´s degree on Sustainable Urbanism and Spatial Planning, NOVA, where he won the title of best master. Her multidisciplinary approach combined history of science, landscape and environmental studies to analyze water management practices in a region of "quintas" and tide mills near Lisbon. As a member of CIUHCT, she joined a prestigious international network of centers and researchers specializing in the history of science, artisanal epistemologies, treatises, and landscape studies in the modern period. In her phd studies, she continues to investigate ancient technologies at the interface of landscape and environment, combining them with scientific knowledge and focusing on one of the most important histories for the Mediterranean and, in particular, for Portugal – olive growing, covering the documentation that exists from the 16th to the 18th centuries. She published books, articles in international journals and participated in international conferences and and in the Summer School in Val d'Anniviers, "Common pool resources in the visual turn", in cooperation with the Swiss Rural History Society (SRHS), Swiss Commons in a European Context (University of Bern), and the Institute Cultures of the Alps. Her research interests include history of science and technology on the interface with the landscape and environment sustainability studies.