Gonçalo Correia Lopes was born on 1990 in Praia da Luz, Lagos. He has a master degree and a PhD in Nautical, Underwater and Maritime Archaeology, both from the NOVA FCSH, Lisbon. His PhD thesis, with the subject "Boa Vista 1: an archaeological study of an Early Modern ship in Lisbon riverfront (17th-18th centuries)", focused on nautical archaeology and shipbuilding traditions from the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Since 2013 he is a researcher at CHAM (Centre for the Humanities), NOVA FCSH. His research is centred in the Early Modern shipbuilding traditions. He has also integrated national and international research projects about Portuguese Expansion in North Africa, namely Morocco and Ceuta. In parallel he has coordinated and participated in several urban archaeology excavations, mainly preventive and rescue contexts. He was a senior technician on the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC), namely on the Nautical and Underwater Archaeology National Centre (CNANS). In 2023/24, he won the FCT's Individual Competition to Stimulate Scientific Employment (CEEC) and joined the Centre for Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences (CEAACP), which is associated with the University of the Algarve. Presently, he is engaged in the execution of his CEEC project, funded by the FCT, entitled "MUCH Lagos: Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage of Lagos".