Name: Isabel Maria da Silva Pereira Amaral ORCID: 0000-0003-1865-8057 Scopus author36851975900 Researcher ID: AAC-9250-2020.
Degree in Biochemistry (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon), and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science, NOVA School
of Sciences and Technology, UNL. Actual Positions: Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Social Sciences, NOVA
School of Sciences and Technology, UNL (since 2002). Invited Associate Professor, Nova Medical School, New University of Lisbon
(since 2018). Coordinator of the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT - NOVA) (since 2020)
UIDB/00286/2020 and UIDP/00286/2020. Member of the Scientific Council NOVA School of Sciences and Technology, UNL(2020-2024).
Member of the Scientific Board and Member of Ethical Council at NOVA School of Sciences and Technology, UNL (2020-). Research
of the R&D unity, Global Health and Tropical Medicine, (2017). UIDB/04413/2020 and UIDP/04413/2020. Medal of Merit from the
Brazilian Academy of Military Medicine attributed during the III Luso-Brasilian Meeting for the History of Tropical medicine
(Manaus 2018), an award attributed by the Academy to the best research in the history of the Tropical and Military Medicine
field. Scientific interests in the history of the biological and biomedical sciences (19th-21st centuries), scientific/medical
heritage, digital health, public health policies and bioethics, with publications and research projects focusing on these
fields, mainly using the Portuguese case as a case-study. Coordinator of the Project sponsored by FCT, The Tropical Medicine
and the Portuguese colonies (1887-1942), 2007-2009. Member of the editorial board of Medical History - International Journal
for the History of Medicine and Related Sciences, Cambridge Core, and of the HoST - Journal of the History of Science and
Technology. Member of the international group STEP (Science and Technology in the European Peripheries) and co-curator of
the Museum of the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in Lisbon. Member of the Society of Geography of Lisbon, the
Portuguese Society of Chemistry, the Portuguese Society of Biochemistry, the Brazilian Society of History of Science, and
the Brazilian Society of History of Medicine. Member of Scientific Committee of all major conferences History of Medicine
and History of Tropical Medicine in the lusophone world. Advanced Education Activity: Coordinator of the PhD Programme on
History, Philosophy and Heritage of Science and Technology at NOVA School of Sciences and Technology, UNL (2016-2021). Number
of PhD students supervised on the history of science and history of medicine field 10 (8 concluded, 2 of them international
students). Number of Master students supervised (2 concluded).