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Ana Tourais (Ana Sofia Santo Tourais) is a Ph.D. fellow in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, in the Department of Conservation and Restoration at FCT-NOVA (Portugal). Ana completed her Bachelor's (2017) and her Master's (2020) degrees, at the same institution, specializing in conservation and restoration of graphic documents as a fellow of the Cistercian Horizons Research Project. She was awarded, two times, highest-scoring student in conservation, after her two degrees. Before pursuing her Ph.D., Ana worked as a book and paper conservator at the Rita Udina Studio (Barcelona), at the Redbone Bindery (Gröningen) and at the NEON Art Conservation (Lisbon). She took these opportunities to develop her professional skills, gaining valuable bench and team work experience, as well as learning about business management in conservation. In 2021, Ana won an FCT doctoral grant and began her Ph.D., dedicated to the study of medieval book bindings from the Monastery of Alcobaça. Her research interests focus on the codicological and material characterisation of medieval bookbindings, as well as their conservation, but she is broadly curious and attentive to the field of book and paper conservation. In the scope of her research, Ana published papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented several papers at international conferences. She is a dedicated and active professional. As such, she participated in the organisation of several international conferences in the field; notably, she was one of the three coordinators of the 6th IIC/NOVA-Student & Emerging Conservators Conference (2021). Ana is also a member of leading organisations in the conservation field like IADA, IIC and ICOMOS-Portugal.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Sofia Santo Tourais

Citation names

  • Tourais, Ana
  • Ana Tourais

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4413-8920-2971
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0271-4026

Email addresses

  • anatourais.asst@gmail.com (Professional)
  • a.tourais@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Art history
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2024/07 - 2024/07
Concluded
 Minimum Intervention Course (Curso de Especialização Tecnológica)
Recanati Restauro, Italy
2021/03/01 - 2024
Ongoing
 Conservação e Restauro do Património (Doutoramento)
Major in Documentos Gráficos
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/08/28 - 2023/09/01
Concluded
 Ligatus Summer School (Outros)
University of Arts London - Ligatus Research Centre, United Kingdom
2022
Concluded
 Formação Interna - Livros Rituais e Espaço num Mosteiro Cisterciense feminino (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal
2022
Concluded
 Webinar de escrita cientifica (Outros)
ReadytoPub, Portugal
2022
Concluded
 Dados de investigação: o que fazer com eles? (Outros)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/09 - 2020/07
Concluded
 Conservação e Restauro (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Development of a material characterization method for the medieval codices of the collection from the Monastery of Alcobaça" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18,35
2014/09 - 2017/07
Concluded
 Conservação e Restauro (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 17,6
2015 - 2015
Concluded
 Conservação e Restauro de Documentos Gráficos (Outros)
Centro Luso Italiano de Conservação e Restauro, Portugal
 100%
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/03/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/10 - 2022/02/15 Conservator of Graphic Documents NEON Art Conservation, Portugal
2021/02 - 2021/05 Conservator of Graphic Documents Redbone Bindery, Netherlands
2020/09 - 2021/01 Conservator of Graphic Documents Rita Udina - Paper and book conservator, Spain
2018/07 - 2018/08 Freelance Conservator of Mural Paintings Intonaco - Conservação e Restauro, Unipessoal Lda, Portugal
Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, Portugal
2017/01 - 2017/02 Student Intern in Conservation of Graphic Documents Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo, Portugal
2016/07/01 - 2016/07/31 Intern Conservator of Archeological Ceramics Câmara Municipal do Sabugal, Portugal
2016/02/01 - 2016/02/29 Intern Conservator of Altarpieces Câmara Municipal de Monforte, Portugal
2016/01/01 - 2016/01/31 Intern Conservator of Tiles Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Portugal
2015/07/01 - 2015/07/31 Intern Conservator of Tiles Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Portugal
2015/01 - 2015/02 Intern Conservator of Textiles Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/03/01 - Current Characterization and Conservation of Medieval bookbindings: The collection of Santa Maria de Alcobaça Monastery
2021.05689
PhD Student Fellow
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2021/03/15 - 2025/03/14 Books, rituals and space in a Cistercian nunnery. Living, praying and reading in Lorvão, 13th ¿ 16th centuries.
10.54499/PTDC/ART-HIS/0739/2020
Researcher
Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019 - 2020 Horizontes Cistercienses
PTDC/ART-HIS/29522/2017
Master Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Casanova, Conceição; Ana Tourais. "Is this an Alcobaça Bookbinding? Codicological features of the 12th and 13th centuries codices from the Alcobaça Collection". In Cistercian Horizons Collected Essays. Trivent, Spring 2024, 2024.
    In press
Conference paper
  1. Barreira, Catarina Fernandes; Casanova, Conceição; Miguel, Catarina; Tourais, Ana. Corresponding author: Barreira, Catarina Fernandes. "Crossing Disciplinary Boarders: Challenges in the study of Cistercian Medieval books in Portugal". Paper presented in Book Written Heritage: new challenges and perspectives, 2023.
    Under revision
  2. Tourais, Ana; Casanova, Conceição. Corresponding author: Casanova, Conceição. "Material characterization of the codices from the Monastery of Santa Maria de Alcobaça". Paper presented in Medieval Europe in Motion V - Materialities and Devotion (5th-15th centuries) [7-9 November 2019], Batalha, 2019.
    Accepted
  3. Pinheiro, AC; Margarida Faustino; Tourais, Ana; Catarina Gonçalves; Casanova, Conceição. Corresponding author: Pinheiro, AC. "The Medieval Leather Bookbinding of Santa Maria de Alcobaça: Technological Approaches". Paper presented in Medieval Europe in Motion V - Materialities and Devotion (5th-15th centuries) [7-9 November 2019], Batalha, 2019.
    In press
Journal article
  1. Tourais, Ana; Casanova, Mª da Conceição; Pombo Cardoso, Isabel. Corresponding author: Casanova, Mª da Conceição. "Unveiling Alcobaça endbands: a new ‘Romanesque’ variant?". Conservation Update 2 (2024):
    Open access • Accepted
  2. Casanova, Conceição; Rodrigues, Samuel Arrojado; Barreira, Catarina Fernandes; Miguel, Catarina; Quilhó, Teresa; Tourais, Ana. Corresponding author: Casanova, Conceição. "Narrating codex history: the case study of a psalter-hymnal from Alcobaça Monastery, Portugal". Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 14 1 (2022): 127-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2021.2021590.
    Open access • Published • 10.1080/17546559.2021.2021590
  3. Tourais, Ana; Casanova, Conceição; Barreira, Catarina Fernandes. Corresponding author: Casanova, Conceição. "Filling the gap: new approaches to medieval bookbinding studies". Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies 14 1 (2022): 109-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2021.2021589.
    Published • 10.1080/17546559.2021.2021589
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Tourais, Ana. "Development of a material characterization method for the medieval codices of the collection from the Monastery of Alcobaça". Master, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2020.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/09/05 Encuadernaciones Románicas de Portugal: Análisis codicológico de las encuadernaciones de los códices del fondo Alcobacense Ars Ligatoria - El arte de encuadernar
Biblioteca Nacional de Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)
2024/04 Documenting to preserve: The case study of Alcobaça Medieval Bookbindings EPoCH 2024: Emerging Perspectives on Conservation and Heritage
Universidade Católica Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023 Base de dados do Mosteiro de Lorvão- Projecto O Mosteiro de Lorvão no tempo de Catarinade Eça (1471-1521)
(Lorvão , Portugal)
2023 Encadernações Medievais: contributos para o seu estudo VII Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Conservação e Restauro
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da U iversidade NOVA deLisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/10 Studying medieval book bindings in the Alcobaça collection: revisiting the development of working tools Cistercian Horizons International Symposium
(Zoom, Portugal)
2022/10 Is this an Alcobaça codex? Codicological bookbinding features of 12th and 13th centuries codices from the Alcobaça collection Cistercian Horizons International Symposium
(Zoom, Portugal)
2021/04 Development of a material characterization method for the Medieval codices of the collection from the Monastery of Alcobaça Codicology (discipline lecture)
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Online, Portugal)
2021 Alcobaça Bookbinding as a hidden treasure: the case study of an Expositio in Evangelium Matthei Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 18
University of Copenhagen and the Royal Library of Denmark (Copenhagen , Denmark)
2019 Material characterization of the codices from the Monastery of Santa Maria de Alcobaça Medieval Europe in Motion V - Materialities and Devotion (5th-15th centuries) [7-9 November 2019]
Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Mosteiro da Batalha/Direção Geral do Património Cultural, Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa (Batalha, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021 - 2021 IIC Student & Emerging Conservator Conference: The Faces of Conservation, Lisbon, October 2021. (2021 - 2021)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, United Kingdom
2020 - 2020 ICOM-CC Joint Interim Meeting Paintings and Theory, History, and Ethics of Conservation Working Groups (2020 - 2020)
Meeting (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2019 Summer School - NOVA STEAM Academy (2019 - 2019)
Other
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Dyes in History and Archeology 37 (2018 - 2018)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/04 - Current International conference on manuscript studies, preservation and conservation
Conference
 Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 19
Københavns Universitet, Denmark
2022/09 - Current Arts and Crafts Conference
Conference
 Bienal de Artes e Ofícios - Novo Design 2022
2022 - Current IV Congresso Ibero-Americano (CIEBA/FBAUL)
Congress
 Investigações em Conservação do Património - Práticas Sustentáveis no Património
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal
2023 - 2033 International Conference on Book and Paper Conservation
Congress
 XV IADA Congress in Hale/Leipzig
2019 - 2019 IIC Student & Emerging Conservator Conference: The Conservators Reflection, Cologne, 12th-14th September 2019.
Conference
 The Conservators Reflection
Technische Hochschule Koln, Germany

The International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, United Kingdom
2019 - 2019 The Conservator-Restorer: a cultural heritage emerging profession, ARP, Lisbon, 18th January 2019.
Conference
 The Conservator-Restorer: a cultural heritage emerging profession
Associação Profissional de Conservadores-Restauradores de Portugal, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current International Association of Book and Paper Conservators Student member
2021 - Current Rede Portuguesa de Jovens para a Igualdade de Oportunidades entre Mulheres e Homens Individual member
2019 - Current International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works Student member
2017 - Current International Council of Museums Portugal Student member
Distinctions

Other distinction

2021 Highest-scoring student (class 2019/2020)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 Highest-scoring student (class 2016/2017)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal