Graduated in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Master's in Social History from the Postgraduate Program in Social History at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Funded by CNPq, the research carried out during my master's degree observed the discourse elaborated by the intellectuals involved in the Angolan literary magazine Mensagem - A Voz dos Naturais de Angola (1951-1952), a paradigmatic periodical for nationalist historiography. The analysis made it possible to grasp the strategies of the process of Angolanization of the language and the construction of literary Angolanity in an initial phase of rationalization of Angola's cultural identity. She holds a PhD in Social History of Culture from the Postgraduate Program in Social History of Culture at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Funded by CAPES, the general objective of this research was to observe the relationship between territoriality and food consumption in the city of Luanda between 1949 and 1973. She is currently a researcher at the History Center of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon. She is also a member of the Africas Research Group (UERJ/UFRJ/ISCED-Huíla), the African History Study Group (GEAH/PUC-Rio), a member of the Brazilian Association of African Studies (ABE-África) and an integrated researcher at the Center for African Studies at the University of Porto (CEAUP). She is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (BIPD) at the History Center of the University of Lisbon (CHUL). funded by FCT/MCTES, collaborating in the development of the Anthropocoasts Transdiciplinary Coast Lab within the project UIDP/04311/2020. She has expertise in the field of Intellectual History, Social History of Culture and in the areas of American History, Contemporary African History, Environmental History and African and Afro-Brazilian Food Studies.