André Caiado is Junior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies and PhD Student in the doctoral programme Heritages of Portuguese Influence, at the University of Coimbra. He is developing a PhD thesis about the politics of memory and commemoration and memorialization processes of the Portuguese Colonial War. His research focuses the monumentalization and musealization of the conflict. From February 2017 to April 2022, he worked as Research Manager in the project "CROME - Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence: The Colonial-Liberation Wars in Postcolonial Times", hosted by CES, coordinated by Miguel Cardina and funded by the European Research Council. He is a member of the research team and keeps involved in dissemination and publication tasks. In 2021, he has been awarded a PhD Individual Research Studentship by the FCT, which contract started on May 2022. From July 2010 to January 2017, he worked as Research Project Manager at the Project Management Office of the Centre for Social Studies. Previously, between March 2009 and June 2010, he had been Science and Technology Manager at the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho. He holds a Master's degree in International Economics and Management from the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto. He is graduated in Political Science and International Relations from the New University of Lisbon. He also attended the University of Leiden in The Netherlands as part of the Erasmus Programme. His master's thesis analyzed the role of economic diplomacy and the usefulness of official visits for businessmen. The investigation analysed the businessmen's perception about official visits's goals, in promoting their firms and business in the markets they had visited. Current research interests focus on the Portuguese colonial war memory studies, memory's monumentalization and memorialization, military pilgrimages and battlefield tourism.