I have a five-year BA/MA in Philosophy (1998) and a PhD (with a four-year post-doctoral fellowship) in Social and Cultural Anthropology (2003) from the University of Turin, Italy. My PhD thesis was awarded the special mention Dignità di Stampa (Dignity of Print) and resulted in my first monograph Poetica delle emozioni. I Bijagó di Bubaque (Guinea Bissau) (Laterza, 2005). I moved to Portugal in 2003 to further pursue my post-doctoral career, at the ISCTE-IUL, where I was awarded two consecutive post-doctoral fellowships (SFRH/BPD/13561/2003 and SFRH/BPD/26987/2006). In 2008, through an international competition, I was awarded a five-year senior researcher position at the Centre for Research in Anthropology within the framework of the FCT programme "Commitment to Science 2007." In 2013, I obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor in Anthropology. In 2014, I won a competitive position as Visiting Associate Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), and was also awarded with another 6-year postdoctoral fellowship at ICS-UL (SFRH/BPD/95998/2013). I was hired as an assistant researcher at ICS-UL in 2019, followed by another fixed-term contract at the same institution awarded in 2021. Until 2013, I was a member of the board of the Portuguese Anthropological Association and the Centre for Research in Anthropology. Since 2022, I have been a member of the School Council and of the Gender Equality Committee at ICS-UL. I am the editor of LadoB (Rough Cuts, Etnográfica) and a member of the Editorial and Advisory Boards of several scientific journals. I have taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in Italy, Portugal, and Brazil. I have supervised 4 post-doctoral fellows, 19 PhD theses, 9 MA theses, and the activities of more than 30 visiting PhD students. As Principal Investigator, I have coordinated 14 funded projects, and I have participated as a researcher in 13 projects funded by national and international foundations. Overall, I have submitted 23 projects, of which 10 were not funded. My main areas of research, with funded projects and outputs over the last five years, are strongly related and connected: 1. Medical anthropology; 2. Anthropology of art, experimental and collaborative ethnographic methods; 3. Urban anthropology: processes of regeneration, valorisation of heritage, and territorial identities. I have researched and published extensively on social inclusion, structural vulnerability and health, intersections of inequalities, migration, body, gender, and beauty studies. I have worked as a consultant in project evaluation and monitoring for non-governmental and humanitarian organisations and in policy evaluation. Based on my expertise as an artist and art curator, I have produced innovative methodological contributions (art-based ethnography) and coordinated various outreach activities and action research projects, such as ethnography-based art exhibitions and art/educational interventions on different topics (decolonisation, discrimination, urban transformations, etc.), funded by public and private institutions, and reaching an overall number of 100,000 visitors. My theoretical contributions on art-based ethnography contribute to the discussion on creative ethnographic methods and attract international students interested in experimental collaborations to my institution. These outreach activities were rewarded with the ICS-UL Extension in Social Sciences (ECS) Award, 2023. In 2001, I was appointed Cultore della materia and began my teaching career as Assistant Professor, collaborating throughout the following years with Universities in Portugal, Italy, and Brazil. I am proud to have been responsible for the creation of a small group of students at ICS-UL working on gender, migration, and beauty studies, and adopting experimental research methods. I was able to create a group spirit that inspires trust anmotivation in my team.