Sílvia Ferreira holds a PhD in History in the specialty of Art, Heritage and Restoration from the Faculty of Letters of Lisbon, with the dissertation A Talha Barroca de Lisboa (1670-1720). Os artistas e as obras (2009) ("The Baroque woodcarving of Lisbon (1670-1720). The artists and their works"). She was postdoctoral researcher at the Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH / BPD / 101835/2014) with a project entitled: "Presença, Memória e Diáspora: Destinos da Arte da Talha em Portugal entre o Liberalismo e a actualidade" (Presence, Memory and Diaspora: Destinations of the woodcarving art in Portugal between Liberalism and nowadays". She is currently a contracted researcher (Norma Transitory, DL 57/2016 - Law 57/2017) of the School of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon and develops research about "The legacy of Robert Chester Smith: new perspectives for the History of Art, in Portugal", which focuses on the systematization, study and wider dissemination, in a multidisciplinary context, of the professional papers of the American art historian, bequethed to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She is Associate Researcher at the Art History Institute of FCSH / NOVA and coordinates the Research Group "Pre-Modern Visual and Material Cultures". In recent years she has collaborated on several research projects, and in two of them as fellow researcher: "Lisbon in Tiles Before The 1755 Earthquake [PTDC/EAT-EAT/099160/2008] and "ROBBIANA. The Della Robbia Sculptures in Portugal: History, Art and Laboratory" [PTDC/HIS-HEC/116742/2010]. She has also participated in several projects in the wider context of religious history, particularly in the context of the history of religious orders and brotherhoods from the Sixteenth to Eighteenth centuries. She participates assiduously in congresses, colloquia and other scientific meetings, promoted in the country and abroad, which have resulted in several articles and book chapters. In addition to other publications of her authorship, the monographs stand out: "A Talha. Esplendores de um passado ainda presente (séculos XVI-XIX)" 2008 ("The Woodcarving: splendours of a past still present, (16th-19th centuries"), "A Igreja de Santa Catarina. A talha do altar-mor" (2008) ("The church of Saint Catherine. The woodcarving of the chancel"), and "Artistas e Artífices da Lisboa Barroca. A irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Doutrina da Igreja de São Roque" (2014) (Artists and artisans of Baroque Lisbon. The brotherhood of Our Lady of Doctrine at the Church of Saint Roch (in partnership with Maria João Pereira Coutinho).