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Daniela de Matos specializes in archeology and geosciences with broad interests in human adaptation, subsistence and material culture, site formation processes and paleolandscapes. Her recent work focuses on the Quaternary deposits of the Humpata Caves at the highlands of Southwestern Angola and reconstructing human-environment dynamics during the Pleistocene and early Holocene in Africa. She holds a doctoral degree in Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät. She is a junior researcher at the Center for Archaeology of the University of Lisbon (Uniarq).
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Daniela Filipa Mirote de Matos

Citation names

  • de Matos, Daniela

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
BA13-DFD0-F761
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3894-7980

Email addresses

  • dmatos@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)
  • dmatos@campus.ul.pt (Professional)

Addresses

  • Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa (Uniarq), Faculdade de Letras, Alameda da Universidade , 1600-214, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
  • University of Tübingen, Institute for Archaeological Sciences, Geoarchaeology Working Group Holderlinstr. 12, 72074, Tübingen, BW, Germany (Professional)

Websites

  • orcid.org/0000-0003-3894-7980 (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
  • Natural sciences - Earth and Environmental Sciences - Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
French Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2017/09/05 - 2022/12/16
Concluded
 Archaeological Sciences and Human Evolution (Doctorat)
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
"Geoarchaeological Investigations in SW Angola: macro and micro-scale approaches to the Middle and Late Pleistocene of Leba Cave" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 cum laude
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/09/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2013/09/15 - 2015/05/15 Research Trainee (Research) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/04/03 - 2024/04/15 Co-direction of archaeological testing of Gouxaria open-air site (Middle Paleolithic) Cornucopia River, Portugal
2016/07/01 - 2017/02/23 Co-direction of archaeological survey of the Companheira Caves (Upper Paleolithic/Neolithic) Archaeofactory, Portugal
2010/07/01 - 2010/08/01 Archaeology Technician CRIVARQUE Estudos de Impacto e Trabalhos Geo-Arqueológicos Lda, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024 - Current Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers at the highlands of Southwest Angola
2023.08165.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2021/12/31 Paleolandscape of the Pleistocene and Holocene of Leba (Southwest Angola)
F201810015
Principal investigator
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
 Leakey Foundation
Concluded
2019/04 - 2021/08 Linking Human Adaptations and Paleolandscape in the Leba Karst, Southwest Angola
EC-57233R-19
Principal investigator
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
 National Geographic Society
Concluded
2017/06/01 - 2021/05/31 Geoarchaeological investigations in Southwestern Angola: macro and micro-scale approaches to the Middle and Late Pleistocene occupation of Leba Cave
SFRH/BD/117162/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2009 - 2010 A indústria litica do sítio da primeira idade do Bronze da Fraga dos Corvos (Macedo de Cavaleiros)
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Principal investigator
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
 Fundação Amadeu Dias
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/01/01 - Current Endemism, Genetic Variation and Conservation in the South-Western Highlands of Africa
HEAN
Researcher
ONGAVA Research center, Namibia
Ongoing
2018 - Current Archaeology, Memory, and Education: Portuguese Collections of Colonial Archaeology
PTDC/HAR-HIS/5237/2020
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
Not funded
2020/05/01 - 2022/06/01 Changing Southwest African Climate and Hydrology: Impacts for Human Evolution
n/c
Researcher
University of Connecticut, United States
 Explorers Club
Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Geosciencies Center
UID/Multi/00073/2019
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/05/01 - 2017/04/01 EcoPLis-Human Occupations in the Pleistocene Ecotones of River Lis - Poço Rockshelter
9296
Researcher
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Concluded
2013/06/01 - 2015/11/30 O Paleolítico Médio e as origens do Homem Moderno no Sul de Moçambique
PTDC/EPH-ARQ/4998/2012
Research Fellow
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/06/01 - 2015 PROMEMICI - Actors and Memories of the ‘Scientific Missions. Archaeology and the Portuguese Colonial Agenda.
PTDC/IVC-HFC/5017/2012
Researcher
Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Rui Francisco. Corresponding author: Rui Francisco. Arrábida Subterrânea: Memória da Profundidade dos Tempos/Underground Arrábida: Memory of The Depth of Times. Sesimbra, Portugal. 2023.
    Published • Assistant staff
Book chapter
  1. de Matos, Daniela; Zastrow, Julia; Val, Aurore; Mendelsohn, John. Corresponding author: de Matos, Daniela. "Caves and their fauna in Highlands and Escarpments of Angola and Namibia". In Endemism in the Highlands and Escarpments of Angola and Namibia. Monograph. Namibian Journal of Environment, edited by Mendelsohn, John; Huntley, Brian; Vaz Pinto, Pedro, 323-330. Namibia, 2023.
    Published
  2. A. Nuno Martins; Andreia Amorim; Catherine Forbes; de Matos, Daniela. Corresponding author: A. Nuno Martins. "Questões De Risco E Vulnerabilidade Do Património Construído - O Caso Da Baixa Pombalina". In Geografia paisagem e riscos. Livro de homenagem ao Prof. Doutor António Pedrosa. Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2016.
    Published
Book review
  1. Daniela de Matos. "Abdel Kader Bongo Doyendze: Le Paléolithique du Gabon—Étude des industries pré-historiques du Haut-Ogooué". (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10437-022-09496-4.
    10.1007/s10437-022-09496-4
Conference abstract
  1. de Matos, Daniela; Conard, Nicholas; Miller, Christopher; Fernandes, José; Oosterbeek, Luiz. "Uma abordagem integrada para a construção de paisagens culturais na Huíla: o caso das Grutas da Leba". Paper presented in XXI Meeting “Rede de Estudos do Ambiente dos Países de Língua Portuguesa” (REALP), Lubango/Moçamedes, Angola, Lubango, 2019.
  2. Cascalheira, João; Gonçalves, Célia; Aldeias, Vera; Benedetti, Michael; Haws, Jonathan; Madime, Omar; de Matos, Daniela; et al. "Stone Age occupations in Northern Mozambique: new evidence from a survey project in the Lunho river valley (Niassa)". Paper presented in Paleoanthropology Society 2015 Meeting, 2015.
    Published
  3. de Matos, Daniela. "The Middle Stone Age lithic technology of Leba Cave (Huíla, Angola)". Paper presented in PanAfrican Archaeological Association (PAA) and Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfa) meeting, Johannesburg, 2014.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. de Matos, Daniela; Oosterbeek, Luiz; Domingos, Ziva; Miller, Christopher; Conard, Nicholas; Benjamim Fernandes, José; Neto, Manuel Sahando; Valongo, Paulo; Henriques, Maria Helena. "An integrated approach to the construction of cultural landscapes in Southwest Angola: The case of Huila". Paper presented in XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France), Paris, 2018.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. de Matos, Daniela; Miller, Christopher; Conard, Nicholas. "Geoarchaeology of the Leba Cave deposits". Paper presented in European Society of Human Evolution, 2022.
  2. de Matos, Daniela; Christopher E. Miller. "Site Formation Processes at Leba Cave, Angola". Paper presented in 9th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference, 2021.
  3. de Matos, Daniela; Christopher E. Miller. "Geoarchaeological Investigations at Leba Cave (Southwestern Angola)". Paper presented in Arbeitskreises Geoarchäologie, 2021.
  4. Elena Robakiewicz; de Matos, Daniela; Annett Junginger. Corresponding author: Elena Robakiewicz. "Modern Diatom Populations in Angola". Paper presented in Geological Society of America, 2020.
  5. João cunha-ribeiro; João Carlos de Senna-Martinez; Martins, Ana Cristina; Pereira, Telmo; de Matos, Daniela; Inês Pinto; Ana Godinho Coelho. Corresponding author: João cunha-ribeiro. "Collections of Portuguese Colonial Archaeology. Inventory and cataloguing". Paper presented in Sessão de apresentação de projectos do Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa, 2020.
  6. de Matos, Daniela. "Why apply a Geoarchaeological Approach to the Middle and Late Pleistocene of Leba Cave?". Paper presented in European Society of Human Evolution, 2017.
  7. Ana Godinho Coelho; Inês Pinto; de Matos, Daniela. Corresponding author: Ana Godinho Coelho. "Scientific Missions In Portuguese colonial territories: the prehistory of Angola, two researchers, one vision". Paper presented in 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA), 2017.
  8. Gonçalves, Célia; de Matos, Daniela; Haws, Jonathan; Raja, Mussa; Benedetti, Michael; Omar Madime; Bicho, Nuno. Corresponding author: Gonçalves, Célia. "A Idade Da Pedra Em Moçambique – Localização E Cartografia". Paper presented in International Seminar on African Archaeology, 2015.
  9. de Matos, Daniela. "Review of the Stone Age Archaeology of Southwestern Angola". Paper presented in International Seminar On African Archaeology, 2015.
  10. de Matos, Daniela; Martins, Ana Cristina; Ana Godinho Coelho; Inês Pinto. "Rediscovering and reinterpreting old data from the archaeological collections of the Portuguese Scientific Missions in Southwestern Angola". Paper presented in European Society of Human Evolution, 2014.
  11. Gonçalves, Célia; de Matos, Daniela; Haws, Jonathan; Benedetti, Michael; Raja, Mussa; Bicho, Nuno. Corresponding author: Gonçalves, Célia. "Mapping the Early and Middle Stone Age in Mozambique: Preliminary Results". Paper presented in 14th Congress of the Pan-African Archaeological Association/ SAfA, Johannesburg, 2014.
  12. de Matos, Daniela. "New thoughts on the archaeological assemblages of the Scientific Missions: the Middle Stone Age lithic technology of Leba Cave (Huíla, SW Angola). International Conference “Knowledge and Colonial Science”, IICT/UL, Lisboa". Paper presented in International Conference “Knowledge and Colonial Science”, IICT/UL, Lisboa, 2013.
  13. de Matos, Daniela; João Carlos de Senna-Martinez; Martins, Ana Cristina. Corresponding author: de Matos, Daniela. "Neolithic Artifacts from Northern Angola: revising the data on an ancient collection at IICT". Paper presented in Science in the Tropics: glimpsing the past, projecting the future, 2012.
Journal article
  1. Pereira, Telmo; Oosterbeek, Luiz; Pleurdeau, David; Camara, Abdoulaye; Bocoum, Hamady; Thiam, Djibril; Alabi, Raphael A.; et al. Corresponding author: Pereira, Telmo. "The Middle Stone Age of Atlantic Africa: A critical review". L'Anthropologie (2023): 103209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103209.
    Published • 10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103209
  2. Piquete, Valter; Pereira, Telmo; Cunha Ribeiro, João Pedro P.G.; de Matos, Daniela. "Early or Middle Stone Age? The lithic assemblage of Capangombe – Santo António, Namibe Province (Angola)". L'Anthropologie (2023): 103214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103214.
    Published • 10.1016/j.anthro.2023.103214
  3. de Matos, Daniela; Nora, David; Francisco, Rui; Fernandes, José; Neto, Manuel Sahando; Robakiewicz, Elena. Corresponding author: de Matos, Daniela. "Survey and Explorations of the Prehistoric Sites at the Highlands of Southwest Angola". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00152-0.
    Open access • Published
  4. Elena Robakiewicz; de Matos, Daniela; Jeffery R. Stone; Annett Junginger. Corresponding author: Elena Robakiewicz. "Hydrochemistry and Diatom Assemblages on the Humpata Plateau, Southwestern Angola". Geosciences 11 9 (2021): 359-359. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11090359.
    Open access • 10.3390/geosciences11090359
  5. de Matos, Daniela; Rui Francisco; Barros, Beatriz; Elena Robakiewicz; Fernandes, José. Corresponding author: de Matos, Daniela. "A paisagem cársica do Sudoeste de Angola". Revista Angolana de Geociências 2 1 (2021): 127-143. http://revista.cicga-uan.co.ao/index.php/RAG/article/view/24.
    Open access • Published
  6. de Matos, Daniela; Martins, Ana Cristina; Senna-Martinez, João Carlos; Pinto, Inês; Coelho, Ana Godinho; Ferreira, Soraia Santos; Oosterbeek, Luiz. "Review of Archaeological Research in Angola". African Archaeological Review (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/48637.
    10.1007/s10437-020-09420-8
  7. A. Nuno Martins; A. A. Pereira; C. Forbes; João L. M. P. de Lima; D. Matos. "Risk to cultural heritage in Baixa Pombalina (Lisbon Downtown) - a transdisciplinary approach to exposure and drivers of vulnerability". International Journal of Architectural Heritage (2020): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F15583058.2020.1745322.
    10.1080/15583058.2020.1745322
  8. de Matos, Daniela; Pereira, Telmo. Corresponding author: de Matos, Daniela. "Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages from Leba Cave (Southwest Angola)". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 32 (2020): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85087498654&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102413
  9. Mori, Tommaso; Beier, Judith; de Matos, Daniela; Mentzer, Susan M.. "Seventh Annual Meeting of the European Society for the Study of Human Evolution". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 27 1 (2018): 3-4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.21564.
    Published • 10.1002/evan.21564
  10. Martins, A. Nuno; Forbes, Catherine; Pereira, Andreia Amorim; Matos, Daniela. "The changing city: risk and built heritage. The case of Lisbon downtown". Procedia Engineering 212 (2018): 921-928. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.119.
    Published • 10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.119
  11. Gonçalves, C.; Raja, M.; Madime, O.; Cascalheira, J.; Haws, J.; Matos, D.; Bicho, N.. "Mapping the Stone Age of Mozambique". African Archaeological Review 33 1 (2016): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84962245484&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10437-016-9212-4
  12. de Matos, Daniela. Corresponding author: de Matos, Daniela. "Review of the stone age archaeology in Southwestern Angola". Africana studia 24 (2015): https://ojs.letras.up.pt/index.php/AfricanaStudia/article/view/7516/6896.
    Open access • Published
  13. Matos, Daniela; Senna-Martinez, João Carlos; Martins, Ana Cristina. "Neolithic Artifacts from Northern Angola: revising the data on an ancient collection at IICT". (2013): http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9796.
  14. de Matos, Daniela. "A Exploração do Quartzo e do Xisto: a indústria lítica do sítio de habitat da 1ª Idade do Bronze da Fraga dos Corvos (Macedo de Cavaleiros)". Cadernos Terras Quentes 8 (2011):
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Geoarchaeological investigations in Southwestern Angola: macro and micro-scale approaches to the Middle and Late Pleistocene occupation of Leba Cave". PhD, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10900/144065.
  2. Matos, Daniela Filipa Mirote de. "Tecnologia lítica da Middle Stone Age da Gruta da Leba (Huíla, SW Angola)". Master, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/6097.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/08/30 The PaleoLeba project Southern Deserts 6
University of Namibia (Walvis Bay, Namibia)
2024/01/18 Gestão, Inventário e Estudo das Coleções de Arqueologia Colonial Portuguesa Isto é Arqueologia 23/24
UNIARQ- Centro de Arqueolkogia da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05/06 Uma abordagem integrada para a construção de paisagens culturais no sudoeste de Angola Encontro da Rede de Estudos do Ambiente dos países de Língua portuguesa (REALP)
Universidade Mandume Ya Ndemufayo (Namibe, Angola)
2018/06/12 An Integrated Approach to the construction of Cultural Landscapes in Southwest Angola: the case of Huíla UISPP 2018 Conference
Sorbonne University (Paris, France)
2014/11/26 Novos dados sobre a Pré-História de Angola: o caso da Gruta da Leba Arqueologia em África: conceitos, práticas e projectos
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/07/15 The Middle Stone Age lithic technology of Leba Cave (Huíla, Angola) PanAfrican Archaeological Association (PAA) and Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfa)meeting
University of Witwattesrand (Joanesburgo, South Africa)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/09/30 - 2024/09/30 European Researchers Night 2024, Lisbon, Digital Open Day with Quiz "Arqueologia Tropical"
Meeting
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores 2024
Museu Nacional de História Natural e Ciência, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/05/16 - 2022/05/18 Apresentação de projetos de doutoramento financiados pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Meeting
 Encontro de Ciência 2022
Ciência Viva, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/06/28 - 2021/06/30 Apresentação de projetos de doutoramento financiados pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Meeting
 Encontro de Ciência 2021
Ciência Viva, Portugal

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/02/22 - 2021/02/23 Workshop Lipid biomarkers: Molecular distribution and Compound-Specific Stable Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Compositions of Plant Wax n-alkanes in sediments, by Carolina Malllol and Christopher Miller
Workshop
 Lipid biomarkers: Molecular distribution and Compound-Specific Stable Carbon and Hydrogen Isotopic Compositions of Plant Wax n-alkanes in sediments
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Universidad de La Laguna, Spain
2020/10/01 - 2020/10/08 Seminar "Isotopes in bones and teeth: a tracking tool in archaeology and paleobiology" by Dorothée Drucker
Seminar
 Seminar "Isotopes in bones and teeth: a tracking tool in archaeology and paleobiology"
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2017/09/04 - 2017/09/07 7th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference meeting, Newcastle, UK
Congress
 Developing International Geoarchaeology
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
2011/05/19 - 2011/05/21 Prehistory of estuarine landscapes
Congress
 Pré-História das Zonas Húmidas
Museu de Arqueologia e Etnografia do Distrito de Setúbal, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/12/10 A variabilidade tecno-tipológica dos machados de mão de Capangombe Santo António, Angola
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Carlos Henriques Mendonça e Silva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/09/01 - Current Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) Regular Member

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2023/03/01 - 2023/08 Content review for the Science Center of Luanda Centro de Ciência de Luanda, Angola

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/09/14 - Current Génese e Evolução da Humanidade e Sociedades Pré-Históricas História (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024 - Current História de África das Origens ao Século XV Estudos Africanos/Arqueologia/História (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024/10/15 - 2024/11/15 Curso Livre em Geoarqueologia (Outros) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2015/03/02 - 2015/05/01 Pré-História africana Arqueologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal
2015/03/01 - 2015/05/01 Arqueologia africana Arqueologia (Mestrado) Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2022 - Current Reviewer for NGS Level I and II grants
Evaluator
 National Geographic Society, United States

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/03/01 - 2023/04/01 Ideário Patrimonial (2183-1394) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Field director of survey and mapping of the caves in southwest Angola Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
2018/02/10 - Current Field director of archaeological excavations at Leba Cave, Angola Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Germany
2023/05/23 - 2023/06/09 Specialist at excavations of the caves Hattab I, Hattab II, and Kehf el'Hammar in Morocco, directed by Abdeljalil Bouzouggar and Johannes Krause National Institute of the Archaeological Science and Heritage, Morocco

Laboratoire Méditerranéen de Préhistoire Europe-Afrique, France

Max-Planck-Institut fur evolutionare Anthropologie Abteilung fur Evolutionare Genetik, Germany
2014/09/01 - 2014/09/30 Excavator at Upper Paleolithic site of Vale Boi, Vila do Bispo Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2014/05/01 - 2014/07/13 Excavator at Pinnacle point (PP) 5-6, Mossel Bay, South Africa Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins, United States
2014/06/01 - 2014/06/30 Survey of the margins of Lake Niassa, Mozambique Universidade do Algarve - Campus de Gambelas, Portugal
2011/09/01 - 2011/09/17 Excavator at Middle Palolithic open air site Pegos do Tejo, Nisa Universidade de Évora Departamento de História, Portugal
2009/08/25 - 2011/09/10 Excavator at Chalcolithic enclosure of São Pedro, Redondo Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2010/06 - 2010/08 Excavator at Middle and Upper Palolithic sites of the Almonda valley (Gruta da Oliveira, Lapa das cabras) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2008/06/01 - 2008/06/30 Lithic analyst for the museum collections of Amoreiras shellmidden, Sado river, at the National Archaeology Museum in Lisbon Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
Distinctions

Other distinction

2024 Wenner Gren Foundation Bursary - Travel grant
Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, United States
2020 Fieldwork grant UNIBUND Tübingen
UniBund, Germany
2014 Student travel grant for meeting of the European Society of Human Evolution
European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Germany