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Ana Curto holds a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Kent (2019), supported by the University of Kent 50th Anniversary Research Scholarship. Currently, she has a fellowship funded by FCT (2020.02110.CEECIND) to conduct her research at the HERCULES Laboratory, University of Évora. Ana also leads the InOsteo project (2022.03576.PTDC) and is part of the team of the Holy Bodies project (2022.01486.PTDC), both funded by FCT. She published 9 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals, 1 book chapter and 1 science communication book. She also presented podium communications and posters at several international conferences. Ana's accolades include winning the 2019/2020 Scientific Text - Young Anthropologists category and securing 2nd place for the Scientific Text Prize from the Portuguese Association for Anthropology in 2018. She supervises a PhD student and previously mentored an MSc student and several BSc students in biological anthropology projects. Recognized as an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, by accomplishing the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education, she taught Foundations of Biological Anthropology, Biology and Human Identity and Forensic Anthropology to BSc and BA students at the University of Kent (UK). Currently, Ana teaches Biological Anthropology, Human Biology and Human Histology II at the University of Évora. She was also an Academic Ambassador at the University of Kent, the University of Évora and the University of Coimbra.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ana Rita Quito Curto

Citation names

  • Curto, Ana Rita Quito
  • Curto, Ana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
C210-3F99-8D26
ORCID iD
0000-0003-3568-9322
Researcher Id
O-6849-2015

Email addresses

  • ana.curto@uevora.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2025/06/16 - 2025/06/17
Concluded
Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling (Outros)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2024/07/16 - 2024/07/18
Concluded
Structural Equation Modelling in Social, Behavioural and Health Sciences (Outros)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2015/09/21 - 2019/11/22
Concluded
Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
"The Impact of Diet and Health on Bone Stable Isotope Ratios: A Comparative Study " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2018 - 2018
Concluded
FRUITS workshop (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Arqueologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018
Concluded
Workshop on stable isotope and mercury analysis (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2018 - 2018
Concluded
R software 3 days Course (Outros)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2018 - 2018
Concluded
Routes into Academia & Writing Research Grant Workshop (Outros)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016
Concluded
Fundamentals of Statistics 2 days Workshop (Outros)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016
Concluded
Managing your Research Data Workshop (Outros)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016
Concluded
Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe workshop (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
2012 - 2012
Concluded
Workshop on archaeozoology (Outros)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2009/09 - 2011/09
Concluded
Human Biology and Evolution (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"[In Templar Lands. Osteological study of human remains from Santa Maria dos Olivais] Por Terras Templárias. Estudo paleobiológico de uma amostra osteológica humana inumada em Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011 - 2011
Concluded
Workshop of archaeothanatology and bioarchaeology (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010 - 2010
Concluded
Anthropology and Health: trends for the next decade” (Outros)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2006/09 - 2009/09
Concluded
Biology (Bachelor)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008 - 2008
Concluded
Exploring all the potential of Web of Knowledge (ISI) (Outros)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/07/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal
2019/06 - 2019/12 Researcher (Research) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/12/28 - 2021/06/28 Lecturer (University Teacher) University of Kent, United Kingdom
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2015/09/21 - 2017/07/21 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) University of Kent, United Kingdom
University of Kent School of Anthropology and Conservation, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2011/10 - 2021/05 Collaborator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2018/10 - 2019/06 Osteologist Archeo'Estudos, Portugal
2011/05/05 - 2015/07/30 Collaborator Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2015/04/01 - 2015/05/31 Excavation at Tomar, Portugal (Morgado Shelter, Neolithic necropolis) Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2014/07/07 - 2014/08/09 Excavation at Perdigões Enclosure, Portugal (Neolithic funerary pit with cremated bones) ERA Arqueologia Conservacao gestao do Patrimonio, Portugal
2014/06/02 - 2014/06/14 Excavation at Muge, Portugal (Cabeço da Amoreira’s shellmidden, Mesolithic) Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2014/05/14 - 2014/05/25 Excavation at Torres Vedras, Portugal (Sauropod, Upper Jurassic) Sociedade de História Natural, Portugal
2014/03/10 - 2014/05/10 Osteological analysis, Project LARES Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal
2013/09/15 - 2013/10/18 Excavation at Évora, Portugal (medieval/modern necropolis) Câmara Municipal de Évora, Portugal
2012/08/20 - 2012/08/31 Excavation at Mértola, Portugal (medieval necropolis) Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2026/03/30 - 2026/05/30 International FCT mobility outgoing - Linking High-Resolution Reconstruction of Early-Life Stress and Incremental Isotopes for Bioarchaeological Life-History Reconstruction
FCT/Mobility/1374944870/2024-25
Research Fellow
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/01 - 2026/03/11 InOsteo: Interdisciplinary Approach to the Osteological Collection from the Military Hospital of St. George’s Castle (17th – 18th centuries), Lisbon
2022.03576.PTDC
Principal investigator
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2025/10/06 - 2025/12/19 International FCT mobility outgoing - Bioarchaeological and Chemical Analysis of Medicinal Metal Use in Early Modern Soldiers
FCT/Mobility/1300764817/2024-25
Research Fellow
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2024 - 2025 Isotopic Analysis of Funerary Deposits from the Early Neolithic and the Late Neolithic–Chalcolithic of Cova del Pasteral (La Cellera de Ter, Girona)
Convocatoria Analíticas
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Fundación Palarq
Concluded
2019/06 - 2019/12 CIAS database
UID/ANT/00283/2013
Researcher
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2015/09/21 - 2019/01/14 The Impact of Diet and Health on Bone Stable Isotope Ratios: A Comparative Study
na
PhD Student Fellow
University of Kent, United Kingdom
University of Kent
Concluded
2008/12 - 2009/12 BII/ICAM/07/2008
BII/ICAM/07/2008
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2026/02/01 - Current MeatIne. Meat production, distribution and consumption and social inequalities (Évora, 14th to 17th centuries)
2024.14551.PEX
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021/07/01 - 2027/06/30 HD-TEC: The impact of childhood Diet on adult Health, comparing three Portuguese archaeological collections: Tomar, Estremoz and Crato
2020.02110.CEECIND
2020.02110.CEECIND/CP1593/CT0005
Post-doc Fellow
Laboratório Hercules Herança Cultural Estudos e Salvaguarda, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023/03/12 - 2026/03/11 Holy Bodies | An Atlas of the Corpi Santi in Portugal
2022.01486.PTDC
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal

Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal

Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Portugal

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Research Centre for Anthropology and Health
UID/ANT/00283/2019
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2022 - 2026 Roman settlement in Amadora – in the ager of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo. PERA II
na
Researcher
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Património Cultural
Ongoing
2015 - 2019 The Pact Established Between Funerary Practices and the Landscape: The Example of the Alto da Corvina Meander - Moinho Velho - Fonte da Romã in the Late Prehistory (Tomar, Portugal)
na
Researcher
Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Património Cultural
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Curto, Ana. Osteologia Humana: livro para colorir e aprender. Évora, Portugal: Imprensa da Universidade de Évora. 2023.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Cruz, Ana; Senna-Martinez JC; Santos L; Relvado C; Ribeiro C; Fernandes T; Curto A. "Upper Morgado Shelter, Still a Peripheral Funeral Context, or Perhaps Not? (Tomar, Central Portugal)". In Interchange in Pre- and Protohistory Case Studies in Iberia, Romania, Turkey and Israel, edited by Cruz, Ana; Gibaja, JF, 117-132. United Kingdom: BAR International Series, 2018.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Curto, Ana; Henriques, Susana; Leirião, Carina; Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Wasterlain, Sofia N.; Amarante, Ana; Maurer, Anne-France; et al. "Soldiers on the Move: Isotopic and historical insigths into military life in 17th-18th century Lisbon". Paper presented in 31st EAA Annual Meeting, Belgrade, Virtual, 2025.
    Published
  2. Curto, Ana; Amarante, Ana; Barrulas, Pedro; Borges, Marco; Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Casimiro, Tânia; Conde, Antónia; et al. "Health, Healing, and Survival: A Multidisciplinary Lens on a Military Hospital". Paper presented in IX Congresso da APA, Viana do Castelo, 2025.
  3. Leirião, Carina; Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Amarante, Ana; Henriques, Susana; Gaspar, Rosa R; Curto, Ana; Wasterlain, Sofia N.. "Traumas of life – Exploring the traumatic lesions in individuals from collective burials from the Miliary Hospital of São Jorge Castle, Lisbon (16th-18th centuries)". Paper presented in 51st Annual North American Meeting (Online), Los Angeles, 2024.
  4. Henriques, Susana; Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Amarante, Ana; Wasterlain, S.N.; Casimiro, Tânia; Curto, Ana Rita Quito. "Hospital Militar do Castelo de São Jorge: gestão e organização espacial durante a Época Moderna". Paper presented in Usos do Castelo: residências e espaços habitacionais, Lisboa, 2024.
    Published
  5. Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Henriques, Susana; Amarante, Ana; Curto, Ana Rita Quito; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Bioarqueologia, do campo ao laboratório: o caso da necrópole Moderna do Hospital dos Soldados (Castelo de São Jorge, Lisboa)". Paper presented in Fragmentos de Arqueologia de Lisboa 22: entre vibos e mortos - mar, rios, os vivos e a barca de caronte, Lisboa, 2022.
    Published
  6. Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa; Relvado, Cláudia; Lopes, Célia. Corresponding author: Curto, Ana. "The many faces of a disease: five possible cases of treponematosis from Tomar (11th - 17th centuries), Portugal". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology: health and disease in the past, Évora, 2021.
    Published
  7. Relvado, Cláudia; Lopes, Célia; Curto, Ana; López, Judith; Luzia, Isabel; Fernandes, Teresa; Maurer, Anne-France. Corresponding author: Relvado, Cláudia. "Evidence of short-limbed dwarfism in an Islamic osteological sample from the Hospital da Misericórdia, Loulé, Portugal (10/11th-13th AD)". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology: health and disease in the past, Évora, 2021.
    Published
  8. Relvado, Cláudia; Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia; Fernandes, Teresa. "Endocranial bone lesions in non-adults: Four study cases from the church of Santa Maria do Olival, Tomar, Portugal (11th -17th centuries)". Paper presented in XV Congreso National e International de Paleopatología, Granada, 2019.
    Published
  9. Curto, Ana; Relvado, Cláudia; Lopes, Célia; Fernandes, Teresa. "A troubled relationship: Five cases of treponematosis from Tomar, Portugal (11th-17th centuries)". Paper presented in XV Congreso National e International de Paleopatología, Granada, 2019.
  10. Lopes, Célia; Curto, Ana; Relvado, Cláudia; Fernantes, Teresa; Nogueira, Susana. "Os mistérios da arca dos fundadores da Igreja de São Francisco de Évora: confrontação entre a lenda e os dados paleobiológicos". Paper presented in VII Congresso APA, Lisboa, 2019.
    Published
  11. Relvado, Cláudia; Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa. "Um possível caso de poliomielite num esqueleto masculino proveniente da Necrópole Medieval/Moderna de Santa Maria do Olival, Tomar". Paper presented in V Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, Coimbra, 2016.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Lopez-Gijon, Ramon; Curto, Ana. "Evidencias paleoparasitológicas en individuos enterrados en iglesias de la Península Ibérica". Paper presented in XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Antropología Física (SEAF), Madrid, 2024.
  2. Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa. "A possible case of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in Medieval Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in Actas del Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología, 2013.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Leirião, Carina; Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Amarante, Ana; Henriques, Susana; Curto, Ana; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Multiple thoracic trauma - A case study from a Military Hospital from Lisbon (17th-18th centuries)". Paper presented in XVIII Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología, 2025.
  2. Cordova, Suarlin; Nunes, Margarida; Curto, Ana Rita Quito; Ferreira, Teresa. "(Re)constructing the life of Jesuit professors in Évora: a multi-analytical characterisation of skeletal remains and archaeological assemblage". Paper presented in XXIX Encontro Nacional da SPQ, 2025.
  3. Ferreira, Teresa; Monteiro, Paula; Falé, Ricardo; Nunes, Margarida; Palmeirão, Joana do Carmo ; Curto, Ana Rita Quito; Manhita, Ana; Piorro, Luis. "Unravelling the link between the simulacra of St Clemente of Palácio Nacional de Queluz and St Fortunato & St Semuc of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada". Paper presented in TECHNART 2025 - International Conference on Analytical Techniques for Heritage Studies and Conservation., 2025.
  4. Leirião, Carina; Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Amarante, Ana; Henriques, Susana; Curto, Ana; Wasterlain, S.N.. "Rickets in the military? A case-study from a Military Hospital from Lisbon (16th-18th centuries)". Paper presented in XVII Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología, 2024.
  5. Ferreira, Teresa; Palmeirão, Joana do Carmo ; Monteiro, Paula; Nunes, Margarida; Olival, Fernanda; Manhita, Ana; Piorro, Luis; Curto, Ana; Vieira, Eduarda. "The study of two impressive simulacra housed by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada, Portugal". Paper presented in International Conference on Innovation in Art Research and Technology – InART2024, 2024.
  6. Pires, Miguel; Nunes, Margarida; Ana Manhita; Curto, Ana; Palmeirão, Joana; Vieira, Eduarda ; Ferreira, Teresa. "Analytical study of religious simulacra". Paper presented in 14th edition of Inorganic & Bioinorganic Chemistry Conference, 2024.
  7. Curto, Ana Rita Quito; Fernandes, Teresa; Lopes, Célia; Monge Calleja, Álvaro M.. "Possible ß-Thalassemia major in an infant from 17th century Portuguese countryside (Flôr da Rosa, Crato)". Paper presented in International Meeting on Porous Skeletal Lesions (PSLMeet2023), 2023.
  8. Curto, Ana. "Did military orders influence the general population diet?". Paper presented in Skeletons, Stories, and Social Bodies Conference, 2018.
  9. Curto, Ana. "Diet in a Templar town: Medieval Portuguese diet from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios". Paper presented in UK Archaeological Science Conference, 2017.
  10. Curto, Ana. "Sexual dimorphism in a medieval/modern Portuguese sample: estimating biological sex and stature from long bone length". Paper presented in BABAO Conference, 2016.
  11. Curto, Ana. "A possible treponemal infection in a young adult from medieval/modern Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd BioAnthropological Meeting: life, death and in between, 2015.
  12. Curto, Ana. "A slipped capital femoral epiphysis case study from medieval Estremoz, Portugal". Paper presented in 2nd BioAnthropological Meeting: life, death and in between, 2015.
  13. Curto, Ana. "Multiple lesions in a male skeleton from the necropolis (medieval/modern) of Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in 4th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology, 2014.
  14. Curto, Ana. "Spondyloarthropathy in medieval/modern Tomar, Portugal". Paper presented in 4th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology, 2014.
  15. Curto, Ana; Relvado, Cláudia; Fernandes, Teresa. "Múltiplas lesões num esqueleto masculino proveniente da necrópole (medieval/moderna) de Santa Maria dos Olivais, Tomar". Paper presented in IV Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia, 2014.
Edited book
  1. Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia; Relvado, Cláudia; Silva, Filipa Cortesão; Curate, Francisco; Assis, Sandra; Fernandes, Teresa; et al, ed. 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology: health and disease in the past. Program-Abstracts. Coimbra, Portugal: Centro de Investigação em Antroplogia e Saúde. 2021.
    Published
  2. Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia; Relvado, Cláudia; Silva, Filipa Cortesão; Curate, Francisco; Assis, Sandra; Teresa Matos Fernandes; Matos, Vítor MJ, ed. VII Jornadas Portuguesas de Paleopatologia: a saúde e a doença do passado. Programa-resumos. 24-25 de setembro de 2021. Évora: Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Universidade de Coimbra. 2021.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia; Maurer, Anne-France; Fernandes, Teresa. "Physical Impairment and Care Estimation in Medieval Estremoz (Portugal): A Bioarchaeological Perspective". International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 35 6 (2025): 490-501. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.70040.
    Published • 10.1002/oa.70040
  2. López-Gijón, Ramón; Hernández-Robles, Alicia; Duras, Salvatore; Celma, Mireia; Curto, Ana; González-Ballesteros, José Ángel; Dufour, Benjamin; Le Bailly, Matthieu; Eiroa, Jorge A.. "Using intestinal parasites to identify the utilization of archaeological structures: A 12th-13th century sewer systems from an Islamic funduq (Murcia, Spain)". Journal of Archaeological Science 180 (2025): 106266. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2025.106266.
    10.1016/j.jas.2025.106266
  3. Teresa Ferreira; Margarida Nunes; Ana Curto; Joana Palmeirão; Ana Manhita; Fernanda Olival; Luís Piorro; Paula Monteiro; Eduarda Vieira. "The study of two impressive simulacra at Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Almada, Portugal". The European Physical Journal Plus (2025): https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06356-3.
    10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06356-3
  4. Curto, Ana; Navarrete, Vanessa; Maurer, Anne-France; Dias, Cristina Barrocas; Fernandes, Teresa. "Health and well-being in Medieval Estremoz, Portugal: Uncovering the diet and longevity of a distinct and thriving community". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 62 (2025): 105011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105011.
    10.1016/j.jasrep.2025.105011
  5. Palmeirão, Joana; Nunes, Margarida; Manhita, Ana; Curto, Ana Rita Quito; Piorro, Luis; Vieira, Eduarda ; Ferreira, Teresa; et al. "Exploring a Forgotten Heritage: The Case Study of Saint Vincent Martyr's Simulacrum". The European Physical Journal Plus (2025): https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06405-x.
    Submitted • 10.1140/epjp/s13360-025-06405-x
  6. Henriques, Susana; Carvalho, Liliana Matias de; Amarante, Ana; Wasterlain, S.N.; Curto, Ana. Corresponding author: Henriques, Susana. "Bioarqueologia, do campo ao laboratório: o caso da necrópole Moderna do Hospital dos Soldados (Castelo de São Jorge, Lisboa)". Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (2025):
    Published
  7. Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia; Detry, Cleia; Ferreira, Cristiana; Tereso, João; Almeida, Nelson; Monteiro, Patricia; et al. "Dossiê Bioarqueologia em Portugal. Temas, conceitos e objetivos". Al-Madan 27 (2024): 69-135.
    Published
  8. Lopes, Célia; Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Curto, Ana. Corresponding author: Godinho, Ricardo Miguel. "A importância da normalização de dados na Bioarqueologia Humana". Al-Madan 27 (2024): 128-135.
    Published
  9. Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa; Relvado, Cláudia; Ferro, Sónia; Lopes, Célia. "Variability of lesions and lesion patterns in possible treponematosis cases: Insights from an archaeological site in Tomar, Portugal". Anthropologischer Anzeiger (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2024/1764.
    Published • 10.1127/anthranz/2024/1764
  10. Gomes, Cláudia; Curto, Ana; Cláudia Gomes. "Family in Medieval Society: A Bioarchaeological Perspective". Genealogy 8 1 (2024): 20. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy8010020.
    10.3390/genealogy8010020
  11. Curto, Ana Rita Quito; Lopes, Célia; Ferreira, Cristiana; Tereso, João; Almeida, Nelson; Monteiro, Patrícia; Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Navarrete, Vanessa. "Grupo de Trabalho em Bioarqueologia Portuguesa". Al-madan 27 1 (2024): 178-178.
    Published
  12. Tereso, João; Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia; Detry, Cleia; Ferreira, Cristiana; Almeida, Nelson; Monteiro, Patrícia; Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Navarrete, Vanessa. "A Investigação Bioarqueológica Portuguesa. Nota introdutória a um dossiê". al-madan 27 (2024): 70-71.
    Published
  13. Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Curto, Ana; Lopes, Célia. "Digitalização 3D: expansão da investigação e salvaguarda em museus de arqueologia". Al-Madan 27 (2024): 128-135.
    Published
  14. Navarrete, Vanessa; Cardoso, JL; Barrocas-Dias C; Detry, Cleia; Curto, Ana; Waterman, AJ; Wright, E; Maurer, Anne-France. Corresponding author: Navarrete, Vanessa. "Estratégias alimentares dos animais domésticos do povoado de Leceia (Oeiras, Portugal) durante a transição do IV para o III milénio a.C.: uma abordagem a partir dos isótopos estáveis". Estudos Arqueológicos de Oeiras 34 (2024): 233-248. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12732048.
    Open access • Published
  15. Curto, Ana; Ferro, Sónia; Santos, Cláudia; Lourenço, Marina; Fahy, Geraldine E.; Anselmo, Daniela; Fernandes, Teresa. "Comparing morphological (os coxae) and metric (long bone length) sex estimation methods in archaeological collections". Anthropologischer Anzeiger (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2023/1730.
    Published • 10.1127/anthranz/2023/1730
  16. Curto, Ana; Fernandes, Teresa. "Clubfoot and its implications for the locomotion of a medieval skeleton from Estremoz, Portugal". International Journal of Paleopathology 38 (2022): 13-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.05.004.
    Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.ijpp.2022.05.004
  17. Curto, Ana; Mahoney, Patrick; Maurer, Anne-France; Barrocas-Dias, Cristina; Fernandes, Teresa; Fahy, Geraldine E.. "Effect of different healing stages on stable isotope ratios in skeletal lesions". American Journal of Physical Anthropology 171 2 (2019): 285-297. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23958.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23958
  18. Ana Curto; Patrick Mahoney; Anne-France Maurer; Cristina Barrocas-Dias; Teresa Fernandes; Geraldine E. Fahy. "Diet and disease in Tomar, Portugal: comparing stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios between skeletons with and without signs of infectious disease". Journal of Archaeological Science 105 (2019): 59-69. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23958.
    Under revision • 10.1016/j.jas.2019.03.005
  19. Curto, Ana; Maurer, Anne-France; Barrocas-Dias, Cristina; Mahoney, Patrick; Fernandes, Teresa; Fahy, Geraldine E.. "Did military orders influence the general population diet? Stable isotope analysis from Medieval Tomar, Portugal". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-018-0637-3.
    Open access • 10.1007/s12520-018-0637-3
  20. Ana Curto; Teresa Fernandes. "A possible Madura foot from medieval Estremoz, southern Portugal". International Journal of Paleopathology 13 (2016): 70-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.006.
    10.1016/j.ijpp.2016.01.006
Report
  1. Neves, Dulce; Curto, Ana Rita Quito. 2021. Abertura de vala para implantação de infraestrutura elétrica, Rua da Ilha, Coimbra. Relatório de Antropologia Biológica.
  2. Curto, Ana. 2020. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Bronze Age burial of Santa Vitória, Beja.
  3. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Intervention in a Bronze Age burial at Torrão, Alcácer do Sal.
  4. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Intervention in a graveyard of unknown chronology at Alpendres, Serpa.
  5. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Excavation and laboratory study of osteological remains from genus Sus.
  6. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Study of osteological faunal remains recovered in Alvalade do Sado.
  7. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Roman Necropolis of Quintos, Beja.
  8. Curto, Ana. 2019. Osteology Report: Human and faunal osteological remains from a Medieval pit at Silves' Castle.
  9. Curto, Ana. 2018. Osteology Report: The Medieval Islamic graveyard of Safara.
  10. Curto, Ana. 2017. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Neolithic funerary cave at Morgado Shelter, Tomar (2016 Campaign).
  11. Curto, Ana. 2016. Osteology Report: Intervention in the Neolithic funerary cave at Morgado Shelter, Tomar (2015 Campaign).
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Curto, Ana. "The Impact of Diet and Health on Bone Stable Isotope Ratios: A Comparative Study". PhD, University of Kent, 2019.
  2. Curto, Ana Q.. "Por terras templárias. Estudo paleobiológico de uma amostra osteológica humana inumada em Santa Maria Olivais, Tomar". Master, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/31528.

Other

Other output
  1. Associação Portuguesa de Bioarqueologia (APBIOARQ). Sócia fundadora da Associação Portuguesa de Bioarqueologia. 2025. Tereso, João; Lopes, Célia; Detry, Cleia; Almeida, Nelson; Monteiro, Patricia; Curto, Ana; Ferreira, Cristiana; Godinho, Ricardo; Navarrete, Vanessa.
  2. Health and Well-Being in Medieval Estremoz, Portugal: Uncovering the Diet and Longevity of a Distinct and Thriving Community. 2024. Curto, A.; Navarrete, V.; Maurer, A.-F.; Dias, C.B.; Fernandes, T.. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85206448279&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.21203/rs.3.rs-4983453/v1
  3. Academic ambassador. I was an Academic ambassador at the University of Kent from 2015 to 2018. During this time I did outreach at different schools and at the university for visiting students.. 2015. Curto, Ana.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2025 Stories Carved in Bone: What Skeletons Reveal About the Past
Faculdade de Historia, Universidade de Vigo (Ourense, Spain)
2025 Using stable isotopes as a tool to study health, inequalities and care
Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de Granada (Granada, Spain)
2025 Uncovering Soldiers’ Lives: Integrating Osteology, History and Biomolecular Science at the Castle of São Jorge Military Hospital CRETUS seminars
University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2025 Why Do Bones Matter? Communication, Ethics, and Anthropology Seminar of "Necropole" discipline from the Master's in Archaeology
University of Santiago de Compostela (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
2025 Soldiers on the Move: Isotopic and Historical insights into military life in 17th-18th century Lisbon 31st European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association
(Belgrade, Serbia)
2025 Health, Healing, and Survival: A multidisciplinary lens on a military hospital Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association
(Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
2024 Beyond food: Exploring Health Using Stable Isotope Ratios in Archaeological Collections Debates in ArchaeoSciences
University of Bonn (Bonn, Germany)
2024 Unveiling the path with stable isotopes, or how to find our niche Lecture series by alumni of the Master's program in Human Evolution and Biology
University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2024 Among fragments, life stories: Maternal and perinatal mortality in the Portuguese archaeological context. International Seminar: Women in Archaeology
Lisbon Geographical Society (Portugal)
2024 Paleoparasitological evidence in individuals buried in churches on the Iberian Peninsula Congress of the Spanish Society of Physical Anthropology
(Madrid, Spain)
2024 Traumas of life – Exploring the traumatic lesions in individuals from collective burials from the Miliary Hospital of São Jorge Castle, Lisbon (16th-18th centuries) Annual Paleopathology Association North American Meeting
(Los Angeles, United States)
2023 What is Paleopathology? Exploring the Past for a Healthier Future History session in the Introduction to the Pharmaceutical Profession of the Integrated Master's Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences
University of Évora (Portugal)
2023 Impairment at Medieval Estremoz, Portugal Annual European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association
(Belfast, United Kingdom)
2021 Are we what we eat? Other factors affecting stable isotope ratios EMBIO2021: New approaches to Early Medieval funerary contexts in the Centre and North of the Iberian Peninsula
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021 The many faces of a disease: five possible cases of treponematosis from Tomar (11th - 17th centuries), Portugal 7th Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology
University of Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2021 On the Zooarchaeology of Warfare: data from Medieval Pits in Silves (Portugal) II Encuentro de Zooarqueología Ibérica
(Spain)
2019 A troubled relationship: Five cases of treponematosis from Tomar, Portugal (11th-17th centuries) 15th Spanish Congress of Paleopathology
University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019 Can stable isotope analysis become a tool for paleopathological studies? 15th Spanish Congress of Paleopathology
University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019 Endocranial bone lesions in non-adults: Four study cases from the church of Santa Maria do Olival, Tomar, Portugal (11th -17th centuries) 15th Spanish Congress of Paleopathology
University of Granada (Granada, Spain)
2019 The mysteries of the Ark of the Founders of Saint Francis Church in Évora: comparing legend and biological anthropology 7th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019 Stable isotope analysis in the study of Paleopathology Conference cycle celebrating 25th Anniversary of CIAS
University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018 Using stable isotope analysis as a tool for paleopathology, examples from Tomar, Portugal 6th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2018 Intrabone stable isotope variation in skeletons with infectious diseases Annual European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association
European Paleopathology Association (Zagreb, Croatia)
2018 Diet and disease in Tomar, Portugal Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists
European Association of Archaeologists (Barcelona, Spain)
2017 Bone remodelling during infections Lecture series in Human Biology and Biochemistry
Universidade de Évora (Portugal)
2017 Stable isotope comparison between apparently healthy and unhealthy adult individuals from medieval Tomar, Portugal BABAO Annual Conference
University of Liverpool (Liverpool, United Kingdom)
2016 A possible case of poliomyelitis in an adult male from medieval Tomar 5th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2015 A possible Madura foot from medieval Estremoz, southern Portugal 2nd BioAnthropological Meeting: life, death and in between
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2014 Talipes equinovarus: a case study from a medieval necropolis in Estremoz, Portugal 4th Portuguese Conference of Paleopathology
Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2011 A POSSIBLE CASE OF LEGG-CALVÉ-PERTHES’ DISEASE IN AN ADULT MALE FROM MEDIEVAL/MODERN TOMAR, PORTUGAL XI Congreso Nacional de Paleopatología
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Andorra la Vella, Andorra)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role
Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2026 - Current Insights into Infant Diet and Weaning Practices from Incremental Dentine Stable Isotope Analysis at Tomar, Portugal
Supervisor
Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2026 - Current Proteomic sex identification and patterns of childhood stress: A bioarchaeological study of medieval Estremoz
Co-supervisor
Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2026 - Current Long-term diet estimation at the graveyard associated to a Military Hospital in Lisbon (17th-18th centuries)
Supervisor
Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025 - Current Between War and the Table: A study of the diet of individuals at the Military Hospital of São Jorge Castle (Lisbon, 17th-18th centuries)
Supervisor
Bioarqueologia (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025 - Current Stress and growth: a bioarchaeological approach to the Estremoz and Flôr da Rosa cases.
Supervisor
Bioarqueologia (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023 - Current Vida Militar - Estudo paleopatológico da série osteológica da necrópole do Hospital Militar do Castelo de São Jorge, Lisboa, Portugal (sécs. XVI-XVIII)
Co-supervisor
Antropologia Biológica (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Paleoparasites: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Living Conditions in The St. George Castle Military Hospital (17th-18th c.) Lisbon (Portugal).
Supervisor
Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Lives and legacies: A study of skeletal remains and archaeological assemblage of Jesuit professors at the University of Évora
Co-supervisor
Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Paleoparasites and Taphonomy: Prevalence and Preservation Patterns in the Necropolis of the Military Hospital of São Jorge Castle
Supervisor
Biologia Humana (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Paleoparasitological Perspectives on Health and Disease at the Military Hospital of São Jorge Castle (17th and 18th centuries), Lisbon
Supervisor
Biologia Humana (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2024 - 2024 Application of Laser ablation-ICP-MS and XRF to determine differential treatment in health/diet in individuals buried in a 19th century hospital, Porto (Portugal)
Co-supervisor
Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Microanálise de ossos humanos por LA-ICP-MS para deteção de mercúrio, indicador de tratamentos de doenças infecionas em populações do passado
Supervisor
Bioquímica (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Dieta e saúde oral em Flõr Da Rosa medieval, Portugal
Supervisor
Ciência dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ARCHMAT) (Master)
Universidade de Évora Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Diet and oral health at medieval Flôr da Rosa
Supervisor
ERASMUS MUNDUS in ARCHaeological MATerials Science (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Traumas, periostite e osteomalacia na Coleção de Esqueletos Identificados de Évora
Co-supervisor
Ciências Biomédicas (Degree)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Análise de indicadores de stress na coleção de esqueletos identificados de Évora
Supervisor
Biologia Humana (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Contribuição para a Caracterização do Perfil Biológico e de Saúde de uma Amostra Populacional Medieval-Moderna de Palmela
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022 - 2022 Caracterização do perfil biológico e de saúde de uma amostra osteológica medieval-moderna proveniente da Igreja Santa Maria de Palmela
Supervisor
Biologia (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 - 2021 Skeletal Evidence for a Change in Pathology Prevalence in London between the Medieval and Post Medieval Periods
Supervisor
Biological Anthropology (Degree)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2021 - 2021 Dissertation, BSc. in Biological Anthropology
Supervisor
Biological Anthropology (Degree)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2021 - 2021 Dissertation, BSc. in Biological Anthropology
Supervisor
Biological Anthropology (Degree)
University of Kent, United Kingdom
2017 - 2018 Paleobiologia de uma Amostra Populacional Antiga de Santa Maria do Olival, Datado do Século XIII-XVIII
Co-supervisor
Project in Biological Sciences (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Estudo de entesopatias numa amostra de população medieval/moderna de Santa Maria do Olival em Tomar.
Co-supervisor
Project in Biological Sciences (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Análise morfológica comparativa de lesões ósseas relacionadas com espondiloartropatias e DISH em populações humanas
Co-supervisor
Project in Biological Sciences (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2014 - 2015 Estudo Paleobiológico de uma amostra osteológica humana de uma necrópole medieval-moderna em Tomar
Co-supervisor
Project in Biological Sciences (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2013 - 2014 Estudo do perfil biológico de uma amostra osteológica medieval/moderna
Co-supervisor
Project in Biological Sciences (Degree)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2019/09/01 - Current Organising Committee of the Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology (2020/09/04 - 2020/09/05)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Workshop on Sex Estimation in Non-Adult Individuals (2025 - 2025)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Workshop on Paleopathology in Non-Adult Individuals (2025 - 2025)
Workshop
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025 - 2025 Hospitals and Care through Time: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Health, Healing, and Infrastructure (2025 - 2025)
Other (Co-organisor)
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Organization of session 931: Tracing Human Stories through Stable Isotopes: Unravelling the Dynamics of Health and Identities (2023)
Call (Member of the Organising Committee)
European Association for Archaeologists, Czech Republic
2023 - 2023 Workshop on Compared Osteology in Bioarchaeology (2023/06/30)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
2009 - 2009 9th European Course on Basic Aerobiology (2009 - 2009)
Workshop
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2025 La memoria de Augusta Emerita: estudio antropológico, funerario e isotópico de la necrópolis de la ampliación del MNAR
(Thesis) Main arguer
Carlos David García Moreno (PhD)
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2025 L'Hospital de Sant Llàtzer: Estudi bioarqueològic de l'impacte històric de la lepra a Barcelona
(Thesis) Main arguer
Nuria Montes Salas (PhD)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
2025 Condiciones de vida de poblaciones medievales de Castilla
(Thesis) Arguer
José Francisco Martín Alonso (PhD)
Universidad de Granada, Spain
2025 Diet of non-adults and adults buried in the extraordinary cemetery of São Domingos convent, Lisbon 17th-early 19th AD, Portugal
(Thesis) Main arguer
Olatomiwa Kudirat Sarumoh (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023 Muelas y Molinos Salud dentomaxilar en el norte de la península ibérica (siglos IX-XIX)
Thesis Member
Laura González-Garrido (PhD)
Universidad de León, Spain
2023 Diet and oral health at medieval Flôr da Rosa
Supervisor
Meiirzhan Abdrakhmanov (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023 Diet of a Dominican elite at the São Domingos convent of Lisbon 16th-19th AD Portugal
(Thesis) Main arguer
Michael Chukwuebuka Atogu (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2022 Late Antiquity in Tróia: isotopic investigation of husbandry practices and early childhood diet
(Thesis) Main arguer
Ayoola Oladele (Master)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 Estudo Paleobiológico e Análise de Isótopos Estáveis de Carbono e Azoto de uma População Proveniente da Necrópole Islâmica de Beja (Portugal) séc. IX-X
(Thesis) Main arguer
Catarina Cândido (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2021 Real Hospital de São João de Deus - Análise de uma série osteológica moderna da Rua do Recolhimento, Lisboa, Portugal
(Thesis) Main arguer
Carina Leirião (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 Normal and pathological foot bones variability in historical and modern series Eduardo Enrique Saldías Vergara (PhD)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019 - Current GEEvH - Grupo de Estudos em Evolução Humana (Study Group in Human Evolution) Fiscal council reporter
2017 - Current European Paleopathology Association Member
2017 - Current European Association of Archaeologists Member
2017 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia Member
2016 - Current European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) Member
2015 - Current British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2021 - Current Scientific Committee of the HERCULES Laboratory
Member
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2019 - Current Portuguese Conference on Paleopathology – International Meeting
2009 - 2009 XIII Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Biologia Universidade de Évora

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2015 - 2015 Scientific advisor for the documentary “Os nossos Dinossauros”, RTP2

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current Excavation techniques Bioarqueologia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2023 - Current Biological Profile Bioarqueologia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 - Current Biological Anthropology Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 - 2027 Paleopathology I Bioarqueologia (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2025/10 - 2025/12 Necropolis Archaeology (Master) Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2021 - 2023 Human Biology Biologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Human Histology II Biologia Humana (Licenciatura) Universidade de Évora, Portugal
2021/01 - 2021/06 Research Design and Advanced Analytical Methods Forensic Osteology and Field Recovery Methods (Master) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2021/01 - 2021/06 Field Excavation and Recovery Methods Forensic Osteology and Field Recovery Methods (Master) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2021/01 - 2021/06 Current Debates in Human Biology and Behaviour Anthropology (Bachelor) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2020/12 - 2021/01 Paleopathology Anthropology (Bachelor) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2020/12 - 2021/01 Growth and Disease of the Human Skeleton Anthropology (Bachelor) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2015 - 2017 Foundations of Biological Anthropology - Autumn and Spring term Foundations of Biological Anthropology (Bachelor) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2015 - 2017 Biology and Human Identity - Spring term Biology and Human Identity (Bachelor) University of Kent, United Kingdom
2015 - 2017 Forensic Anthropology - Spring term Forensic Anthropology (Bachelor) University of Kent, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2017/02/06 Interview about the skeleton I studied with a Madura foot infection: "Vivia na Idade Média em Estremoz e o fungo que tinha num pé era raro na Europa" Público
2016/12/21 The skeleton I studied, and published, with a Madura foot infection was considered on of the 10 Most Intriguing Skeletons Of 2016 by Forbes Forbes
2016/02/23 One of my scientific papers was featured in Forbes: "Archaeologists Find Medieval Foot Fungus In Portuguese Cemetery" Forbes

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023 - Current Podcast UE com ciência Antropologia Biológica: Ossos a revelar o passado
2022 - Current Podcast GPS da RTP Ana Curto - Antropologia Biológica na Universidade de Évora

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2025 - Current Jury for granting funding for Fundamental Research Projects Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Belgium
2025 - Current External evaluator, Triennial report on postdoctoral activity funded by FCT (CEECIND) Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2022 - Current Jury of the Plurianual Projects in Archaeology Republica Portuguesa Direção-Geral do Património Cultural, Portugal
2021 - Current Junior and Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship evaluations Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek Vlaanderen, Belgium
2024 - 2024 External Specialist in the 2024 Doctoral Scholarship Competition, Anthropology Panel Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2023 - 2023 Jury of a Competition Procedure for Research Fellowship Recruitment (PhD scholarship) in Biological Anthropology. Project Interdisciplinary Approach to the Osteological Collection of the Military Hospital of Castelo de São Jorge (17th-18th centuries), Lisbon. Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2020 2019/2020 Scientific text - Young Anthropologists (Biological/Forensic Anthropology)
Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Portugal
2018 2nd place for the 2017/2018 Scientific text - Young Anthropologists
Portuguese Association of Anthropology, Portugal
2017 Runner-up student poster prize
University College London Institute of Archaeology, United Kingdom
2015 University of Kent 50th Anniversary Research Scholarship
University of Kent, United Kingdom

Title

2016 Associate Fellow of The Higher Education Academy, UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education
The Higher Education Academy (HEA), United Kingdom