Catarina Frois is Associate Professor (with Habilitation) at the Department of Anthropology . She is author of several books and scientific articles, both national and international, with a special emphasis in the study of security policies, incarceration, control and surveillance technologies.

Francisco Vaz da Silva works on symbolic representations, which he mostly addresses in the fields of fairy tales, religious art, and comparative anthropology. His books include Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales (2002), Archeology of Intangible Heritage [2008], The Meanings of Enchantment: Revisiting Wondertale Symbolism (2023), and an annotated seven-volume collection of European fairy tales, Contos Maravilhosos Europeus (2011-2013). He has published extensively in professional journals, encyclopedias, and companion volumes in America and Europe. He was a visiting professor at the University of Tartu (2016), the University of Reykjavik (2013), and the University of California at Berkeley (2001/2002) and Los Angeles (2009). He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Research grant (1999) and a Faculty Research Grant from the Portuguese Studies Program at UC Berkeley (2001/2002). He serves in the editorial board of Cosmos (UK), Cultural Analysis (USA), Marvels & Tales (USA), and Narrative Culture (USA). [Updated 2023/08/23.]

Antónia Pedroso de Lima graduated in Anthropology at ISCTE (Lisbon, 1987), has a MA in Urban Anthropology from Barcelona University (Tarragona, 1991), an MA in Sociology of the Family ISCTE (1993), Ph.D in Anthropology (ISCTE 2001) and Habilitation in Anthropology (ISCTE, 2020). Professor at the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE since 1989, former President of CRIA, the National Research Centre in Social Anthropology (Portugal), former member of the scientific Committee of Openedition (CNRS) and founder of the LusOpenedition (Lusophone Countries) and former member of the National Committee for the Intangible Heritage (Portuguese Ministry of Culture). Specialist on kinship theory, gender and contemporary family relations Antónia Lima is the author of numerous publications on family in Portugal (focusing both on working class neighbourhoods, middle class families and economic elite), gender, emotions, care, austerity and precarity. Her present research interests are on family relations, gender, care, social reproduction and precarity. Since 2014 Antónia pedroso de Lima is one of the directors of Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Women's Film Festival, the first Portuguese film festival dedicated to women in cinema.

Nélia Dias has a Maitrîse en Anthropologie et Sociologie by the Université René- Descartes /Sorbonne and a PhD by the EHESS (Paris) under the supervision of Pierre Nora.  She is member “Petroculture’s Intersections with The Cultural Heritage sector in the context of green transitions” (PITCH) - december 2023/ november 2027. The project is co-financed by the EU Horizon Europe program and the UK Research & Innovation for a total of 3.283.000 euros. She was part of the CHEurope 'Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe', H2020 Marie Curie, MSCA ITN, Nr - 722416 ( 2017-2021). She is currently director of the Conselho Cientifico of IN2PAST - Laboratory for Research in Heritage, Art, Sustainability and Territory) and member of the Conseil d'Orientation Stratégique du Musée du quai Branly (2024-2027).  She has been -invited Professor at the Musée du Quai Branly (2024), Visiting Fellow at the University of Saint-Andrews ( February -April 2018) , Directrice d'études associée at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme/ Ecole Normale Supérieure ( October/ December 2017), International Visiting Fellow - Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia (2016) e Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) where she conducted, along with F. Vidal, the project 'Endangerment and its consequences', published as Endangerment, Diversity and Culture ( Routledge 2016).  In 2009, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University ( New Orleans) fall semester.   She was between 1998 and 2001 member of the Conseil du Patrimoine Ethnologique, Ministère de la Culture (France) and is, since 2019, member of the Conseil d'Orientation stratégique de l'École Universitaire de Recherche (EUR).     She was director of the PhD program in Anthropology Politicas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia, between ISCTE-IUL and NOVA / FCSH, and three research centers :CRIA, IELT e INET-md between 2013 and 2020.      

He holds a PhD in Anthropology and his Professor in the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and has been a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil in 2009-10 and 2017-18. He was Vice-President of the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and Diretor of CRIA-IUL. He has made several investigations in Portugal, Spain and Brazil working on themes such as body, ritual, heritage, tourism and, above all, in the area of ​​cultural performances, artistic practices and political activism. He has been collaborating with diverse structures and artistic events.