Lucio De Sousa, an Associate Professor at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), holds a Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of Oporto (Oporto, Portugal). He served as an MC Observer and Invited Researcher for the COST Action CA18205 T project from 2019 to November 2021 and, since May 2023, has held the position of Research Fellow at the DCAF - Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance in Switzerland, and since 2015, Lucio de Sousa has been involved in the research project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) Grant, titled "GECEM: Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption, and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 1680-1840." Lúcio de Sousa's main area of study revolves around Asian slavery in the early modern period and the emergence of the first Asian communities in Europe and the American continent. He is a book winner by the Macao Foundation, the Social Science in China Press, and the GuangDong Social Sciences Association (2013), as well as receiving recognition from the Portuguese Academy of History and the Gulbenkian Foundation Award (2019). Lucio's research primarily centers on the slave trade and Jewish Diaspora in Asia during the Early Modern Period.