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Vanessa Otero is an interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of conservation science and technical art history, aiming at the preservation and valorisation of cultural heritage. Her investigation using the Winsor & Newton 19th Century Archive Database has impacted the preservation of artists' materials found in heritage objects internationally. Her strong analytical skills have also enabled her to make significant contributions to the field of nature conservation. She is an Auxiliary Researcher of the LAQV-REQUIMTE R&D unit and a collaborative member of the VICARTE R&D unit, with a PhD in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (specialisation in Conservation Science) obtained in 2018. She has secured funding for her research through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, raising >500k by winning a contract in the 2020 Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (3rd place) and projects as principal investigator and co-coordinator. She is also the PI responsible for the research collaboration between the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the NOVA School of Science and Technology (DCR NOVA FCT) and the international company Winsor & Newton COLART Ltd. She has an h-index of 19 with 29 papers in peer-reviewed journals and >2000 citations (WoS), indicating her research's international impact. Furthermore, her work has been disseminated at national and international conferences with 50 oral (including invited talks) and 26 poster communications, having 13 conference proceedings and 5 book chapters. Since 2011, she has collaborated with the DCR NOVA FCT in the BSc, MSc and PhD courses, co-supervised 3 PhDs (2 complete; 1 ongoing), supervised 4 MSc (3 as co-sup.) and several curricular projects, including Erasmus internships. Moreover, she is co-responsible for the DCR's analytical infrastructure, its financial management and coordinates the authentication services of artworks by the Portuguese Modern painter Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso (1887-1918). She has engaged in knowledge dissemination activities for the general public, on art and science, with emphasis on art forgery (2 magazine papers, 4 invited talks for school students and several workshops). She also participated in 1 TV documentary and 1 documentary film on Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Her multidisciplinary research has enabled her to establish a national and international collaborative network, including renowned institutions such as the Gulbenkian Modern Art Center, the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Politecnico di Milano and the Slade School of Fine Art.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vanessa Otero

Citation names

  • Vanessa Otero
  • Otero, Vanessa
  • V. Otero

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F516-4544-453D
ORCID iD
0000-0003-2336-0773
Researcher Id
M-1934-2017
Scopus Author Id
26028924400

Telephones

Telephone
  • 212948322 Ext.: 11307 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Department of Conservation and Restoration, FCT NOVA, Campus of Caparica, 2829-516, Almada, Almada, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - History and Archaeology
  • Exact Sciences - Chemical Sciences - Analytical Chemistry

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Italian Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2018
Concluded
 PhD in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Specialisation in Conservation Science (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Historically accurate reconstructions of Amadeo’s chrome yellows: an integrated study of their manufacture and stability" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved by unanimity
2010
Concluded
 Master in Conservation Science (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Historically Accurate Reconstructions and Characterisation of Chrome Yellow Pigments" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17
2007
Concluded
 Bachelor in Technological Chemistry (pre-Bologna; 4-year course) (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Characterisation of varnishes used in violins by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (written in Portuguese)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/12 - Current Researcher (Research) Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
2011/04 - Current Researcher (Research) Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
2020/03 - 2020/11 Postdoc (Research) Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
2017/09 - 2019/12 Science and Technology Management Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/03 - 2020/11 Polyphenols in Art - Chemistry and biology hand in hand with conservation of cultural heritage
PTDC/QUI-OUT/29925/2017
Post-doc Fellow
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/09 - 2019/12 Science and Technology Management Fellow
N/A
Science and Technology Management Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/09 - 2017/06 Research Fellow
LAQV/BI/029/2016
Research Fellow
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde
Concluded
2015/05 - 2015/12 Research Fellow
N/A
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Concluded
2011/04 - 2015/03 Historically accurate reconstructions of Amadeo’s chrome yellows: an integrated study of their manufacture and stability
SFRH/BD/74574/2010
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2007 - 2007 Erasmus Studentship Grant by the European Union
N/A
Other
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023 - Current REDiscovering madder colours: Science & Art for the preservation and creation of cultural heritage
2022.02909.PTDC
Principal investigator
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2023 - Current The threads of the past weaving the future: The colors from the Royal Textile Factory of Covilhã, 1764-1850
2022.01243.PTDC
Researcher
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022 - Current Magic Lantern - Study, Safeguard, Uses and Reuses in 19th-Century Portugal
PTDC/ART-PER/1702/2021
Researcher
Unidade de Investigação Vidro e Cerâmica para as Artes, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2022 - Current AmazonMicroplast - Microplásticos em água e sedimentos no estuário do Rio Amazonas
2021/08565-3
Researcher
Instituto de Ciências Ambientais, Químicas e Farmacêuticas/ICAQF/UNIFESP, Brazil
 The São Paulo Research Foundation
Ongoing
2021 - 2024 MaddArt - Towards the preservation of Madder reds in painted Artworks: History, Science & Art
2020.00647.CEECIND
Principal investigator
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2018 - 2022 Polyphenols in Art - Chemistry and biology hand in hand with conservation of cultural heritage
PTDC/QUI-OUT/29925/2017
Researcher
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2011 - 2014 Crossing Borders: History, materials and techniques of Portuguese painters from 1850-1918 (Romanticism, Naturalism and Modernism)
PTDC/EAT-EAT/113612/2009
Researcher
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Vanessa Otero. "REDiscovering madder colours: Science & Art for the preservation and creation of cultural heritage". In Colour & Poetry: A Symposium V, 42-43. United Kingdom: Slade Press, 2023.
  2. Vanessa Otero; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. "Recovering the art of hand-painting magic lantern glass slides". In Colour & Poetry: A Symposium IV, 54-55. United Kingdom: Slade Press, 2022.
  3. Vanessa Otero. "Chasing Winsor & Newton 19th-century colours for the preservation of our cultural heritage". In Colour & Poetry: A Symposium III, 103-105. Slade Press, 2021.
  4. Márcia Vilarigues; Vanessa Otero. "Hand-painted Magic Lantern Slides and the 19th-century Colourmen Winsor & Newton". In A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slides in the History of Learning, edited by Sarah Dellmann; Frank Kessler, 71-76. John Libbey Publishing, 2020.
Conference paper
  1. Ângela Santos; Alexandra Rodrigues; Carla Machado; Gilberto Pereira; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Shedding light into the earliest collection of magic lantern slides in Portugal". Paper presented in 2º National Meeting of History of Chemistry, Aveiro, 2023.
  2. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Challenges in the interventive conservation of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides: An overview of cleaning practices for paint layers". Paper presented in 6th Interim Meeting of the ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramics Working Group, Lisbon, 2022.
  3. Vanessa Otero; Tiago Veiga; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. "The W&N 19th century manufacture of madder reds: application to magic lantern slides". Paper presented in 9th symposium of the ICOM-CC Working Group Art Technological Source Research, Paris, 2022.
  4. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Colours of pre-cinema projections: the evolution of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides' palette". Paper presented in International Colour Association (AIC) 14th Conference, Milan, 2021.
  5. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Alexandra Rodrigues; Márcia Vilarigues. "Glass Used to Produce 18th- and 19th-Century Painted Slides for Projection with Magic Lanterns". Paper presented in Annales du 22o Congrês de l'Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre, AIHV & ICOM Glass Meeting 2021, Lisbon, 2021.
  6. Vanessa Otero; Ângela Santos; Ana Carneiro; Márcia Vilarigues; Leslie Carlyle; Maria João Melo. "The chemistry behind Winsor & Newton, a major 19th-c. manufacturer of artists’ materials". Paper presented in 1.º National Meeting of History of Chemistry, Aveiro, 2021.
  7. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Characterisation of glass and painting materials from 18th century hand-painted glass slides used for projection with Magic Lanterns". Paper presented in Glass and Ceramics Interim Meeting ICOM-CC - Recent Advances in Glass and Ceramics Conservation, London, 2019.
  8. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "The colour of moving images: a documentary study of Winsor & Newton 19th-century watercolours used to paint glass slides for magic lanterns". Paper presented in 8th symposium of the ICOM-CC Working Group Art Technological Source Research, Cologne, 2019.
  9. Filipa Bessa; Pablo Barría; João M. Neto; João P. G. L. Frias; Vanessa Otero; Paula Sobral; João Carlos Marques. "Microplastics in Juvenile Commercial Fish from an Estuarine Environment". Paper presented in International Conference on Microplastic Pollution in the Mediterranean Sea, Capri, 2017.
  10. Tatiana Vitorino; Vanessa Otero; Leslie Carlyle; Maria João Melo; A. Jorge Parola; Marcello Picollo. "Nineteenth-century cochineal lake pigments from Winsor & Newton: insight into their methodology through reconstructions". Paper presented in ICOM-CC 18th Triennial Conference, Copenhagen, 2017.
  11. Maria João Melo; Márcia Vilarigues; Vanessa Otero. "Tudo palpita e vive no seu próprio espaço com Amadeo de Souza Cardoso". Paper presented in International Conference on Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, Centenário da Exposição de Pintura (Abstraccionismo) Porto 1916, Porto, 2016.
  12. Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues; Leslie Carlyle; Maria João Melo. "Winsor & Newton’s nineteenth century manufacture of yellow chromate-based pigments". Paper presented in Sources in Art Technology: Back to Basics, Proceeding from the 6th symposium of the ICOM-CC Working Group Art Technological Source Research, Amsterdam, 2014.
  13. Leslie Carlyle; Pedro Caetano Alves; Vanessa Otero; Maria João Melo; Márcia Vilarigues. "A question of scale and terminology, extrapolating from past practices in commercial manufacture to current laboratory experience: The Winsor & Newton 19th century artists' materials archive database". Paper presented in ICOM-CC 16th Triennial Conference, Lisboa, 2011.
Conference poster
  1. Malihe Sotoudeh; Paula Nabais; Vanessa Otero. "Traditional Iranian Dyeing Technique: Insights from a Hands-On Workshop Experience". Paper presented in 42nd Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, 2023.
  2. Malihe Sotoudeh; Paula Nabais; Vanessa Otero; Maria João Melo. "The Explanation of Crafts: multi-analytical characterization of iron-gall inks prepared following a 12th-century Persian treatise". Paper presented in TECHNART International Conference, 2023.
  3. Vanessa Otero; Tiago Veiga; Artur Moro; Maria João Melo. "Between past and future: Using historically accurate reconstructions to preserve madder colours". Paper presented in 20th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference, 2023.
  4. Vanessa Otero; Tiago Veiga; Ângela Santos; Márcia Vilarigues. "The W&N 19th century manufacture of madder reds: application to magic lantern slides". Paper presented in 9th Symposium of the ICOM-CC Working Group Art Technological Source Research, 2022.
  5. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Preventive Conservation of Painted Magic Lantern Slides". Paper presented in Encontro Ciência'22, 2022.
  6. Margarida Gomes; Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Making Replicas of Hand-painted Glass Slides for Magic Lantern’s Shows". Paper presented in Ceramics, Glass and Stained Glass Conference, 2021.
  7. Tiago Veiga; Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "A multi-analytical characterisation of binders used on hand-painted magic lantern glass slides". Paper presented in Ceramics, Glass and Stained Glass Conference, 2021.
  8. Vanessa Otero; Marta Ghirardello; Daniela Comelli; Lucia Toniolo; Maria João Melo. "An investigation into the historical manufacture of cadmium yellow pigments towards their preservation in 19th and 20th century artworks". Paper presented in 3rd International Caparica Christmas Conference on Translational Chemistry, 2019.
  9. Maria João Melo; Juliana Buse; Vanessa Otero. "Medieval technical sources revisited: a new light on copper greens' production". Paper presented in 8th Interim meeting of the ICOM-CC Art Technological Source Research working group, 2019.
  10. Ângela Santos; Beatriz Rodrigues; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Material characterisation for the preservation of hand-painted Magic Lantern glass slides: the methodological approach". Paper presented in MATERIAIS 2019, XIX Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and X International Symposium on Material, 2019.
  11. Tatiana Vitorino; Vanessa Otero; Julio M. del Hoyo-Meléndez; Maria João Melo; António Jorge Parola; Marcello Picollo. "An investigation of the photostability of 19th century artist’s cochineal lake pigments: artificial light aging vs microfading spectrometry". Paper presented in 37th Dyes in History and Archaeology Conference, 2018.
  12. Tatiana Vitorino; Vanessa Otero; Leslie Carlyle; António Jorge Parola; Marcello Picollo. "Unique insights into the chemistry and photodegradation of 19th century artist’s cochineal lake pigments". Paper presented in Gordon Research Conference on Scientific Methods in Cultural Heritage Research, 2018.
  13. Eva Mariasole Angelin; Vanessa Otero; Filipe Teixeira; Maria João Melo. "Computational chemistry in cultural heritage: theoretical predictions of vibrational spectra for alizarin lakes". Paper presented in 9th International Congress on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, 2017.
  14. Tatiana Vitorino; Andrea Casini; Costanza Cucci; Maria João Melo; Vanessa Otero; António Jorge Parola; Marcello Picollo; Lorenzo Stefani. "An In Situ Multi-Analytical Approach for the characterization of Cochineal Lake Pigments". Paper presented in 4th International Congress Chemistry for Cultural Heritage, 2016.
  15. Maria João Melo; A. Jorge Parola; Tatiana Vitorino; Vanessa Otero. "Polyphenols in Art: brazilwood in medieval illuminated manuscripts". Paper presented in XXVIIth International Conference on Polyphenols, 2014.
  16. Maria João Melo; Leslie Carlyle; Márcia Vilarigues; Vanessa Otero; Marine Cotte. "Shades of Yellow. A photochemical approach to the preservation of chrome yellows in 19th c. works of art". Paper presented in XXVth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, 2014.
  17. Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues; Leslie Carlyle; Maria João Melo. "Deconstructing and reconstructing Winsor & Newton 19th century yellow chromate-based pigments manufacture". Paper presented in 6th Symposium of the ICOM-CC Working Group Art Technological Source Research, 2014.
  18. Vanessa Otero; Diogo Sanches; Cristina Montagner; Márcia Vilarigues; Leslie Carlyle; Maria João Melo. "Identification of copper azelate in 19th century Portuguese oil paintings: characterisation of metal soaps by Raman Spectroscopy". Paper presented in 7th International Congress on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology, 2013.
  19. Ana Maria Ramos; Diogo Sanches; Maria João Melo; Leslie Carlyle; Márcia Vilarigues; Vanessa Otero; Jorge F.J. Coelho; Cátia S.M.F. Costa. "Correlating the Thermophysical and Molecular Properties of 19th Century Chrome Yellow Oil Paints". Paper presented in 3rd International Symposium Frontiers in Polymer Science, 2013.
  20. Vanessa Otero; Leslie Carlyle; Márcia Vilarigues; João P. Veiga; Maria João Melo. "Chrome Yellow in the 19th century art: a molecular study of an artist's pigment". Paper presented in 2nd Meeting of Synchrotron Radiation Users from Portugal and ESRF-Day, 2013.
  21. Maria João Melo; Vanessa Otero; Tatiana Vitorino; Leslie Carlyle. "Brazilwood and its lake pigments: historic reconstructions". Paper presented in 31st Meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, 2012.
  22. Vanessa Otero; Tatiana Vitorino; Maria João Melo; A. Jorge Parola; Raquel Rondão; J. Sérgio Seixas de Melo. "Redwoods used in works of art: a photochemical approach". Paper presented in XXIVth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, 2012.
  23. Tatiana Vitorino; Vanessa Otero; Maria João Melo; Leslie Carlyle. "A closer look at brazilwood and its lake pigments". Paper presented in 10th international IRUG Conference, 2012.
  24. Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues; Maria João Melo. "The lemon shade of chrome yellow: probing the influence of sulphur in mixed-crystals of lead chromate and lead sulphate". Paper presented in 10th international IRUG Conference, 2012.
Journal article
  1. Leonel C. Silva; Vanessa Otero; Maria J. Melo; Eurico J. Cabrita; Luís Mafra. "What’s the Madder? Characterization of Old Fashioned Alizarin/Aluminum Red Pigments Using Liquid and Solid-State NMR". Colorants 2 4 (2023): 601-617. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/colorants2040031.
  2. Rafael Javier Díaz Hidalgo; Ricardo Córdoba; Hermine Grigoryan; Márcia Vieira; Maria J. Melo; Paula Nabais; Vanessa Otero; et al. "The making of black inks in an Arabic treatise by al-Qalalusi dated from the 13th c.: reproduction and characterisation of iron-gall ink recipes". Heritage Science 11 1 (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40494-022-00823-1.
  3. Tiago Veiga; Artur J. Moro; Paula Nabais; Márcia Vilarigues; Vanessa Otero. "A First Approach to the Study of Winsor & Newton’s 19th-Century Manufacture of Madder Red Lake Pigments". Heritage 6 4 (2023): 3606-3621. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage6040192.
  4. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Production of Hand-painted Magic Lantern Glass Slides: A Literature Review". Studies in Conservation (2023): 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2023.2194080.
  5. Maria João Melo; Paula Nabais; Márcia Vieira; Rita Araújo; Vanessa Otero; João Lopes; Lourdes Martín. "Between past and future: Advanced studies of ancient colours to safeguard cultural heritage and new sustainable applications". Dyes and Pigments 208 (2022): 110815. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2022.110815.
  6. Maria João Melo; Vanessa Otero; Paula Nabais; Natércia Teixeira; Fernando Pina; Conceição Casanova; Sara Fragoso; Sílvia O. Sequeira. "Iron-gall inks: a review of their degradation mechanisms and conservation treatments". Heritage Science 10 1 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40494-022-00779-2.
  7. Amaia Lejarazu-Larrañaga; Juan M. Ortiz; Serena Molina; Sylwin Pawlowski; Claudia F. Galinha; Vanessa Otero; Eloy García-Calvo; Svetlozar Velizarov; João G. Crespo. "Nitrate Removal by Donnan Dialysis and Anion-Exchange Membrane Bioreactor Using Upcycled End-of Life Reverse Osmosis Membranes". Membranes 12 2 (2022): 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes12020101.
  8. Ana M. Ferreira; Isa Sucena; Vanessa Otero; Eva Mariasole Angelin; Maria João Melo; João A. P. Coutinho. "Pretreatment of Plastic Waste: Removal of Colorants from HDPE Using Biosolvents". Molecules 27 1 (2021): 98. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27010098.
  9. Joana Fragão; Filipa Bessa; Vanessa Otero; Andrés Barbosa; Paula Sobral; Claire M. Waluda; Hugo R. Guímaro; José C. Xavier. "Microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in Antarctica: Using penguins as biological samplers". Science of The Total Environment 788 (2021): 147698. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147698.
  10. Ângela Santos; Beatriz Rodrigues; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Defining the first preventive conservation guidelines for hand-painted magic lantern glass slides". Conservar Património 37 (2021): 100-115. https://doi.org/10.14568/cp2020033.
  11. Maria Veneno; Paula Nabais; Vanessa Otero; Adelaide Clemente; M. Conceição Oliveira; M. J. Melo. "Yellow Lake Pigments from Weld in Art: Investigating the Winsor & Newton 19th Century Archive". Heritage 4 1 (2021): 422-436. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage4010026.
  12. Marta Ghirardello; Vanessa Otero; Daniela Comelli; Lucia Toniolo; David Dellasega; Luca Nessi; Matteo Cantoni; Gianluca Valentini; Austin Nevin. "An investigation into the synthesis of cadmium sulfide pigments for a better understanding of their reactivity in artworks". Dyes and Pigments 186 (2021): 108998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2020.108998.
  13. Diana Rodrigues; Joana Antunes; Vanessa Otero; Paula Sobral; Maria Helena Costa. "Distribution Patterns of Microplastics in Seawater Surface at a Portuguese Estuary and Marine Park". Frontiers in Environmental Science 8 (2020): 582217. https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffenvs.2020.582217.
  14. Luís Gabriel A. Barboza; Clara Lopes; Patrícia Oliveira; Filipa Bessa; Vanessa Otero; Bruno Henriques; Joana Raimundo; et al. "Microplastic in wild fish from North East Atlantic Ocean and its potential for causing neurotoxic effects, lipid oxidative damage, and human health risks associated with ingestion exposure". Science of The Total Environment 717 (2020): 134625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134625.
  15. Filipa Bessa; Norman Ratcliffe; Vanessa Otero; Paula Sobral; João C. Marques; Claire M. Waluda; Phil N. Trathan; José C. Xavier. "Microplastics in gentoo penguins from the Antarctic region". Scientific Reports 9 (2019): 14191. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50621-2.
  16. Beatriz Rodrigues; Ângela Santos; Maria J. Melo; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. "Magic Lantern Glass Slides Materials and Techniques: the First Multi-Analytical Study". Heritage 2 3 (2019): 2513-2530. https://doi.org/10.3390%2Fheritage2030154.
  17. Juliana Buse; Vanessa Otero; Maria J. Melo. "New Insights into Synthetic Copper Greens: The Search for Specific Signatures by Raman and Infrared Spectroscopy for Their Characterization in Medieval Artworks". Heritage 2 2 (2019): 1614-1629. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2020099.
  18. Filipa Bessa; Pablo Barría; João M. Neto; João P.G.L. Frias; Vanessa Otero; Paula Sobral; J.C. Marques. "Occurrence of microplastics in commercial fish from a natural estuarine environment". Marine Pollution Bulletin 128 (2018): 575-584. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.marpolbul.2018.01.044.
  19. Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues; Leslie Carlyle; Marine Cotte; Wout De Nolf; Maria J. Melo. "A little key to oxalate formation in oil paints: protective patina or chemical reactor?". Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (2018): https://doi.org/10.1039%2Fc7pp00307b.
  20. Vanessa Otero; Marta F. Campos; Joana V. Pinto; Márcia Vilarigues; Leslie Carlyle; Maria J. Melo. "Barium, zinc and strontium yellows in late 19th–early 20th century oil paintings". Heritage Science 5 1 (2017): https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-017-0160-3.
  21. Christopher K. Pham; Yasmina Rodríguez; Axelle Dauphin; Rita Carriço; João P. G. L. Frias; Frederic Vandeperre; Vanessa Otero; et al. "Plastic ingestion in oceanic-stage loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) off the North Atlantic subtropical gyre". Marine Pollution Bulletin (2017): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.06.008.
  22. Vanessa Otero; Joana V. Pinto; Leslie Carlyle; Márcia Vilarigues; Marine Cotte; Maria J. Melo. "Nineteenth century chrome yellow and chrome deep from Winsor & NewtonTM". Studies in Conservation 62 3 (2017): 123-149. https://doi.org/10.1080/00393630.2015.1131478.
  23. Tatiana Vitorino; Maria J. Melo; Leslie Carlyle; Vanessa Otero. "New insights into brazilwood lake pigments manufacture through the use of historically accurate reconstructions". Studies in Conservation 61 5 (2016): 255-273. https://doi.org/10.1179/2047058415Y.0000000006.
  24. João P.G.L. Frias; Jesus Gago; Vanessa Otero; Paula Sobral. "Microplastics in coastal sediments from Southern Portuguese shelf waters". Marine Environmental Research 114 (2016): 24-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2015.12.006.
  25. João P.G.L. Frias; Vanessa Otero; Paula Sobral. "Evidence of microplastics in samples of zooplankton from Portuguese coastal waters". Marine Environmental Research 95 (2014): 89-95. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2014.01.001.
  26. Maria J. Melo; Vanessa Otero; Tatiana Vitorino; Rita Araújo; V. S. Muralha; Ana Lemos; Marcello Picollo. "A spectroscopic study of Brazilwood paints in medieval books of hours". Applied spectroscopy 68 4 (2014): 434-443. https://doi.org/10.1366/13-07253.
  27. Vanessa Otero; Diogo Sanches; Cristina Montagner; Márcia Vilarigues; Leslie Carlyle; João A. Lopes; Maria J. Melo. "Characterisation of metal carboxylates by Raman and infrared spectroscopy in works of art". Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 45 11-12 (2014): 1197-1206. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.4520.
  28. Vanessa Otero; Leslie Carlyle; Márcia Vilarigues; Maria J. Melo. "Chrome yellow in nineteenth century art: Historic reconstructions of an artists' pigment". RSC Advances 2 5 (2012): 1798-1805. https://doi.org/10.1039/C1RA00614B.
  29. Giuseppe Chiavari; Simona Montalbani; Vanessa Otero. "Characterisation of varnishes used in violins by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry". Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 22 23 (2008): 3711-3718. https://doi.org/10.1002/rcm.3785.
Magazine article
  1. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Beatriz Rodrigues; Márcia Vilarigues. "Unravelling the secrets of magic lantern glass painting", The Magic Lantern , 2020, http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/the-magic-lantern/issue.php?id=4010384.
  2. Maria João Melo; Vanessa Otero. "Forgery of works of art (written in Portuguese)", Revista de Ciência Elementar, 2019, http://doi.org/10.24927/rce2019.071.
Online resource
  1. Vanessa Otero. Project REDiscover Instagram account. 2023. https://www.instagram.com/rediscover_2023/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Otero, Vanessa. "Historically accurate reconstructions of Amadeo’s chrome yellows: an integrated study of their manufacture and stability". PhD, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/59726.
  2. Otero, Vanessa. "Historically Accurate Reconstructions and Characterisation of Chrome Yellow Pigments". Master, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5331.
  3. Otero, Vanessa. "Characterisation of varnishes used in violins by pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (written in Portuguese)". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, 2007.
Website
  1. Vanessa Otero. REDiscover Project. 2023. https://sites.google.com/fct.unl.pt/rediscover.
  2. Ângela Santos; Vanessa Otero; Márcia Vilarigues. MAGICA Project. 2022. https://www.magica-project.com/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04 Materiality of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso's paintings (invited talk) International Workshop The practice of Robert Delaunay and his contemporaries
Centre Pompidou (Paris, France)
2024/03 REDiscover Workshop: a dialogue between artistic and scientific experimentation (invited talk) Colour and Poetry: A Symposium VI
UCL Slade School of Fine Art (London, United Kingdom)
2024/03 Chemistry on the Trail of Crime in the Art World (invited talk presented in Portuguese) National Meeting of Chemistry Students ’24
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
2023/12 Exploring the Winsor & Newton 19th century Archive Database to support cultural heritage material studies Colour Matters: Exploring Colour and Chromatic Materialities in the Long Nineteenth Century (1798-1914)
Trinity College Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2023/09 Shedding light into the earliest Portuguese collection of magic lantern slides 2nd National Meeting of History of Chemistry
Portuguese Society of Chemistry (Online, Portugal)
2023/07 Tangible Facets of the Art of Painting Glass Slides for Projection by Magic Lanterns XVIIIth Conference of the European Ceramic Society
European Ceramic Society (Lyon, France)
2023/05 Improving the identification of red lake pigments on historical hand-painted magic lantern glass slides TECHNART International Conference
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/04 The Carpenter & Westley's art of painting magic lantern glass slides: the contribution of material characterisation studies Materiais 2023 – XXI Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and XII International Symposium on Materials
University of Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2023/03 REDiscovering madder colours: Science & Art for the preservation and creation of cultural heritage (invited talk) Colour and Poetry: A Symposium V
UCL Slade School of Fine Art (London, United Kingdom)
2023/03 Hand-painted magic lantern glass slides: the influence of the light source and materials on the projected images American Chemical Society Spring 2023, Division of the History of Chemistry - Session Science in Support of Technical Art History
Indiana Convention Center (Indianapolis, United States)
2023/03 Winsor & Newton's 19th-century manufacturing processes: How science unveils the artists' colorman choices American Chemical Society Spring 2023, Division of the History of Chemistry - Session Science in Support of Technical Art History
Indiana Convention Center (Indianapolis, United States)
2022/11 Challenges in the interventive conservation of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides: An overview of cleaning practices for paint layers 6th Interim meeting of ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramic working group
NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/11 Microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in Antarctica: Using penguins as biological samplers MICRO 2022 International Conference Plastic Pollution From Macro to Nano
Online Atlas Edition
2022/10 Finding madder reds in 19th-early 20th century oil paintings 41th Dyes in History and Archaeology Meeting
Swedish National Heritage Board (Visby, Sweden)
2022/09 Microplastics and other anthropogenic particles in Antarctica: Using penguins as biological samplers SCAR Open Science Conference 2022
The National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (Goa, India)
2022/07 New evidence on the degradation of Cadmium Yellow oil paints using historically reconstructed pigments CHEMCH - 6th International Congress "Chemistry for Cultural Heritage"
University of Bologna (Ravenna, Italy)
2022/07 A new inception into the study of madder lake pigments through a multi-analytical characterisation of historical formulations (Shotgun presentation) CHEMCH - 6th International Congress "Chemistry for Cultural Heritage"
University of Bologna (Ravenna, Italy)
2022/05 Preventive Conservation Challenges of Hand Painted Magic Lantern Glass Slides B-magic Final Conference
University of Antwerp (Antwerp, Belgium)
2022/03 Recovering the art of hand-painting magic lantern glass slides (invited talk) Colour & Poetry: A Symposium IV
UCL Slade School of Fine Art (London, United Kingdom)
2021/10 Colours in Art: Past, Present & Future (invited talk) 8th International Color & Coating Congress
Institute for Color Science and Technology (Tehran, Iran)
2021/09 Glass used to produce 18th- and 19th-century painted slides for projection with Magic Lanterns 22nd International Congress of the Association Internationale pour l'Histoire du Verre
NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2021/09 Colours of pre-cinema projections: the evolution of hand-painted magic lantern glass slides' palette 14th Congress of the International Color Association
Gruppo del Colore – Associazione Italiana Colore (Milan, Italy)
2021/09 The chemistry behind Winsor & Newton, a major 19th-c. manufacturer of artists’ materials 1st National Meeting of History of Chemistry
Portuguese Chemical Society (Aveiro, Portugal)
2021/06 Probing the degradation of cadmium yellow oil paints SPIE Optical Metrology conference on Optics for Arts, Architecture, and Archaeology (O3A) VIII
Internationales Congress Center München (Munich, Germany)
2021/06 How I met Conservation Science (invited shotgun presentation) The C Factor - Connecting the Conservation Community
NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/03 Chasing Winsor & Newton 19th-century colours for the preservation of our cultural heritage (invited talk) Colour and Poetry Symposium and online exhibition: Colour/Collage/Poetry
UCL Slade School of Fine Art (London, United Kingdom)
2020/10 Back from the past: historical and experimental research of Winsor & Newton 19th century recipes for Reseda luteola (Shotgun presentation) 39th Dyes in History and Archaeology Online Meeting
(Sibiu, Romania)
2020/10 Uncovering al-Qalalusi 13th-century treatise on ink making: new contributions to the study of medieval iron gall inks (Shotgun presentation) 39th Dyes in History and Archaeology Online Meeting
(Sibiu, Romania)
2019/12 From production to preservation: Hand-painted glass slides used for projection with Magic Lanterns from the Museum of Natural History and Science (presented in Portuguese) V Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de Conservação e Restauro
Escola das Artes da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
2019/09 Characterisation of Glass and Painting Materials from 18th-Century Painted Glass Slides Used for Projection with Magic Lanterns 5th Interim meeting of ICOM-CC Glass and Ceramic working group
British Museum (London, United Kingdom)
2019/09 The colour of moving images: reconstructing Winsor & Newton 19th century watercolours for Magic Lantern glass painting 8th Interim meeting of the ICOM-CC Art Technological Source Research working group
Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences (Cologne, Germany)
2019/04 Historically accurate materials for the preservation of chrome yellow in 19th c. oil paintings Materials 2019, XIX Congresso da Sociedade Portuguesa de Materiais and X International Symposium on Materials
NOVA University of Lisbon (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/09 Magic lantern hand-painted slides and the 19th century artists’ colourmen Winsor & Newton Annual Conference of the Society of Glass Technology - "Glass and the Meeting of Minds"
(Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2018/05 So you think you can fake? (invited talk; presented in Portuguese) Science Days event
D. Filipa de Lencastre High School (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05 Discovering the art of painting: a handful of precious stones (invited talk; presented in Portuguese) Science Days event
D. Filipa de Lencastre High School (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/10 A molecular study of the 19th century Winsor & Newton cochineal lake pigments 9th International Congress on the Application of Raman Spectroscopy in Art and Archaeology
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
2017/09 Nineteenth-century cochineal lake pigments from Winsor & Newton: insight into their methodology through reconstructions 18th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference
ICOM-CC (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2017/05 Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso through the eyes of Chemistry (invited talk; presented in Portuguese) Science Days event
D. Filipa de Lencastre High School (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/02 L’usage de L’alun dans les pigments (12e-16e siècles) (invited talk) Workshop Les usages de l’alun dans les sociétés occidentales à la fin du Moyen Âge
KANTL (Konnigstraat)
2016/11 A handful of colors. What do the materials and techniques of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso tell us? (invited talk; presented in Portuguese) 1st International Congress on Amadeo de Souza Cardoso. Centenary of the Painting Exhibition (Abstractionism) at Porto 1916
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2015/12 Chemistry hand in hand with Cultural Heritage, for preservation and access (invited talk) 1st International Christmas Caparica Congress in Translational Chemistry
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Almada, Portugal)
2014/09 Amadeo's Modernism through his materials Crossing Borders International Workshop
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea - Museu do Chiado (Lisboa, Portugal)
2014/09 Unveiling the colors of medieval illuminations with a little help from microspectrofluorimetry, SERS and FORS (invited talk) 1st International Caparica Conference on Chromogenic and Emissive Materials
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Almada, Portugal)
2013/10 Cochineal and its lake pigments: historic reconstructions from Winsor & Newton's archive 32nd Dyes in History and Archaeology Meeting
(La Rochelle, France)
2013/06 The 19th century manufacture of yellow and red lake pigments: the Winsor & Newton approach The Symposium Van Gogh’s Studio Practice in Context
Van Gogh's Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2011/09 A question of scale and terminology, extrapolating from past practices in commercial manufacture to current laboratory experience: The Winsor & Newton 19th century artists' materials archive database 16th ICOM-CC Triennial Conference
ICOM-CC (Lisboa, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/04 - Current Investigating the colour fading of eosin lakes in French 19th-century magic lantern slides
Supervisor of Anaëlle Soares
 Internship (Erasmus) (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris, France
2024/02 - Current Multianalytical characterisation of historical magic lantern slides: in search of anthraquinone reds (written in Portuguese)
Co-supervisor of Margarida Gaspar
 Química Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022 - Current Back to Black: Reconstruction and Characterization of Iron-gall Inks in Medieval Islamic Technical Written Sources
Co-supervisor of Malihe Sotoudeh
 Conservação e Restauro do Património (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - Current Lanterna Magica –Technology and preservation of painted glass slides for projection with Magic Lanterns
Co-supervisor of Ângela Barros Santos
 Conservação e Restauro do Património (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/09 - 2024/01 Eosin Reds: correlating material characterisation and conservation state in 19th-century magic lantern slides (written in Portuguese)
Supervisor of Marta Neves
 Projecto (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/04 - 2023/07 Magic Lantern Glass Slides: looking at the red organic colours of French production
Supervisor of Flavie Delort
 Internship (Erasmus) (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

École nationale supérieure de chimie de Paris, France
2022/09 - 2023/07 Characterization of Magic Lantern Glass slides from Cinemateca Portuguesa
Supervisor of Louisa Wittorf
 Projeto (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2023 Madder lake pigments: new contributions to the characterisation and photostability study of historical formulations (written in Portuguese)
Supervisor of Tiago Veiga
 Conservação e Restauro (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/07 Chasing the magic binder
Supervisor of Tiago Veiga
 Projeto (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020/09 - 2021/02 Historical flavonoid yellows: synthesis and multi-analytical characterisation (written in Portuguese)
Co-supervisor of Maria Carolina Veneno
 Química Aplicada (Degree)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Replicas of hand-painted glass slides for Magic Lantern projection (written in Portuguese)
Co-supervisor of Margarida Gomes
 Conservação e Restauro (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2015 - 2020 A closer look at nineteenth century cochineal lake pigments through historical recipes reconstructions
Co-supervisor of Tatiana Mendes Vitorino
 Conservação e Restauro do Património (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Paper artworks by Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, material characterisation and its preservation (written in Portuguese)
Co-supervisor of Susana Pereira Pimentel
 Conservação e Restauro (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2011 - 2012 A Closer Look at Brazilwood and its Lake Pigments
Co-supervisor of Tatiana Mendes Vitorino
 Conservação e Restauro (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024 - 2024 REDiscover Workshop on making madder colours inspired by Winsor & Newton's 19th-century recipes (2024 - 2024) University College London Slade School of Fine Art, United Kingdom
2018 - 2018 Member of the Organising Committee of the 37th Dyes in History and Archaeology Meeting (2018/10/25 - 2018/10/26) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - 2018 Member of the Organising Committee of the first Open Day of Conservation celebrating the 20 years of the Degree in Conservation and Restoration and the European Year of Heritage, including an exhibition "an artist like you have never seen him". (2018/03/26) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Dissemination activity on art and science at the House-Museum Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves in Lisbon (2017 - 2017)
2013 - 2017 Dissemination activity on Romanic Portuguese Illumination, workshops given at Kindergarten and High Schools in Lisbon (2013 - 2017)
2011 - 2011 Dissemination activity on art forgery within the exhibition Crime at the Museum at Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon (2011 - 2011)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022 - 2022 Oral Presentation: "Fabulosas Pinturas Projetadas com Lanternas Mágicas: Onde Estão e Como se Preservam?" Seminários de Cultura Material da Ciência, moderação de Marta Lourenço
Universidade de Lisboa Museu Nacional de História Natural, Portugal
2010 - 2018 Dissemination activity on art forgery within the Expo FCT event for high school students Expo FCT
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 - 2016 Participation in the documentary film by Christophe Fonseca and Frédéric Wilner, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, The Last Secret of Modern Art, France Télévisions Distribution, Réunion des musées nationaux - Grand Palais
2012 - 2012 Participation in the TV documentary (RTP): À Velocidade da Inquietação - Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/03/24 Authentication of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso Paintings and Drawings With Deep Learning
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ailin Chen (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current International Council of Museums Member
2021 - Current Portuguese Society of Chemistry Member

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2011 - Current Authentication studies on Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso paintings Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current Journal of Cultural Heritage (1296-2074) Elsevier
2022 - Current Colorants (2079-6447) MDPI
2021 - Current Materials (1996-1944) MDPI
2021 - Current The European Physical Journal Plus (2190-5444) Springer
2020 - Current Applied Sciences (2076-3417) MDPI
2019 - Current Environmental Pollution (0269-7491) Elsevier
2019 - Current Heritage (2571-9408) MDPI
2019 - Current Sustainability (2071-1050) MDPI
2018 - Current Heritage Science (2050-7445) Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.)

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021 - Current CORES PhD Research Seminars (DCR FCT NOVA PhD's degree) N/A
2011 - Current Introduction to Conservation and Restoration I (DCR FCT NOVA bachelor’s degree) N/A
2011 - Current Analytical Methods for Cultural Heritage (pratical sessions; DCR FCT NOVA master's degree) N/A
2011 - Current History of Art Technology and Materials I (DCR FCT NOVA master’s degree) N/A
2011 - 2015 Physical Chemistry (DCR FCT NOVA bachelor’s degree) N/A
2011 - 2015 Polymers in Conservation (DCR FCT NOVA bachelor’s degree) N/A
2011 - 2015 History of Art Technology and Materials II (DCR FCT NOVA master’s degree) N/A
Distinctions

Other distinction

2019 Special Commendation Prize of The Mervyn Heard Award for the Project: Technology and Preservation of painted glass slides for projection with Magic Lanterns by Márcia Vilarigues with Ângela Santos, Vanessa Otero and Beatriz Rodrigues
Magic Lantern Society, United Kingdom
2011 Best Master Student in Conservation Science in the year 2009/2010
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal