Biography

I started my education on Conservation and Restoration at the Faculty of Sciences and Technology (UNL) specializing in furniture and wooden objects conservation, developing a work focusing on Chinese lacquered furniture.
After graduating in 2006, I worked with museums, private collectors and antique shops.
In 2009 I returned to the faculty to pursue my master’s degree in Conservation Science, turning my focus to 19th century Portuguese oil paintings, with the dissertation “The Study of Lead White Oil Paints: A molecular approach to the whites of Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso”.
I am currently a PhD student on Conservation Science at the Department of Conservation and Restoration, within the Crossing Borders project, with the study of the history, techniques and materials of 19th century Portuguese painters.
Research interests include art history, study of oil painting techniques, multi-analytical characterisation of painting materials and the study of the degradation of oil paint matrixes.