Ângela Domingues is a Senior Assistant Researcher since 2009. She has been carrying out research duties at CH-ULisboa since 2015 and has worked as a career researcher at IICT since 1998. She holds a Habilitação para as funções de coordenação científica (IICT, 2009), Ph.D. (FCSH-NOVA, 1998) and Master (4 years program, FCSH-NOVA, 1991) in the specialization area of History/History of Discoveries and Expansion. Her Ph.D. was recognized by UERJ in 2015. She is responsible for Teaching Units (1th, 2nd and 3rd cycles) in the scientific field of History of European Expansion and Colonial Brazil. She was Chair of the Department of Human Sciences at IICT (2005-08), was elected Coordinator of the Research Group Building and Connecting Empires and elected member of the Coordinating Board of CH-ULisboa (2023). She was Foreigner Senior Visiting Professor of CAPES (2017), chercheur-résident of Casa de Velázquez-École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques (2013), held a fellowship at John Carter Brown Library (1995) and was Visiting Professor at universities in Portugal (FCSH-NOVA, UAL), Brazil (UFPA, UNESP, USP, UFMT, UFBA, UERJ) and Spain (UPO). She is Fellow of Academia da Marinha; Affiliated Researcher at Centro de Humanidades (CHAM) and Grupo Companhia das Indias (UFF); and corresponding academic at Academia Paraense das Ciências. She is a member of the editorial boards of book collections and journals in Portugal, Brazil, Chile and Spain. She is author of books and articles on Colonial Brazil, Amazonia and Atlantic History. Her areas of expertise include topics such as: history of scientific voyages and scientific thought, history of frontiers, representations of Brazil and the Portuguese in European travel literature during the Enlightnment and power equations between Luso-Brazilians and Amerindians in colonial Amazon.