Maria Antónia Lopes (lopes.mariantonia@gmail.com), PhD in Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Coimbra, is Tenured Associate Professor "com Agregação" (Full Professor qualification) at the Faculty of Arts of this University, where she lectures History at Bachelor's, Master's and PhD degrees, coordinates the PhD in History and she is Director of Revista Portuguesa de História. She also provides the Master's seminar Economic and Social History of Health Care in Portugal at the Faculty of Medicine. She lectured in the PhD in Feminist Studies and, under the Erasmus Program, at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Università degli Studi della Tuscia (Viterbo), Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma and at the University of Catania on the First International Summer School. She is an integrated researcher at the Center for the History of Society and Culture and collaborates with Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. Her main area of investigation is Social and Cultural History of Portugal (16th-19th centuries). She explores literary, legislative, administrative, and private sources to investigate women, poor people, social policies, doctrinal works on charity, hospitals and other care and health institutions, royal biographies and aspects of family life. She has been a researcher on 22 national and international projects, author and/or coordinator of 16 books and several dozen articles and chapters published in Portugal and abroad. He is a permanent member of Scientific Councils of magazines and book collections in Portugal and abroad. She was or is the supervisor of 73 Master's dissertations and PhD theses and has participated in 110 Portuguese and foreign academic juries and for hiring researchers/professors.