Ana Luísa Paz is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon, a researcher at UIDEF - Research & Development Unit in Education and Training, and belongs to the Curriculum, Teacher Training and Technology department. PhD in Education - History of Education by the same Institute of Education (2015), she is also holds a Master in Sociology - Sociology of Education (2005) by New University of Lisbon and a degree in History by the Letters Faculty, University of Lisbon (2000). She has published on the higher education pedagogies, the history of education and artistic education, and in particular, on the trajectories of musicians. She was awarded a Henriette Herz-Humboldt Research Fellowship Program for Experienced Researchers by the Alexander von Humbold Foundation. She has also a member of several scientific associations (SPCE, HISTEDUP), internacional networks such as EERA's ECER Network 17 (History of Education, co-convenor) and Network 29 (Research in Arts Education, reviewer), and is a core member for the HEC - History of Educational Ecologies (RPTU I University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Institut für Allgemeine Erziehungswissenschaft, Germany). She is also a colaborator for the History Centre of the Faculty of Letters ULisboa, within the group "[Uses of the Past]" and has been actively engaged in Teacher Union (SNESUP). A.L.F. Paz published about 35 articles in peer reviewed journals, 20 chapters of books and 4 book(s) (13 WOS/Scopus publications in the last 5 years). She usually engages in circa 3 scientific event(s) per year (scientific/organisation/coodination). She co/supervised 3 now concluded PhD thesis and 15 PhD sudents; and supervised 9 concluded Master dissertation(s); at the moment she is co/responsible by 4 Master's students . Has received 4 awards / honors. She was also a team member in 5 financed project(s) and in her professional activities she interacted with more than 25 collaborator(s) in co-authorship of scientific papers. Her main interests delve in the area(s) of Social Sciences with emphasis on Educational Sciences, and specifically on the Arts Education both in a present and historical perspective, which also led her to organise the Study Groups MUSA-Studies in Music and other Arts Education(s) and with Ana Paula Caetano (IE-ULisboa) GEPPAIE - Study Group of Reserch in Participatory and Artistic Processes in Education .