Deputy Director of Católica Doctoral School (CADOS) since September 2023. She is Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of UCP, and co-founder and co-curator of the independent curatorial project “nanogaleria” since September 2018 with Luísa Santos. She was Head of the Research and Innovation Office of UCP (Jan. 2018-Sep. 2023). She was also Project Manager and Researcher for the European Cooperation Project “4Cs – From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture”, co-funded by the “Creative Europe: Culture” programme of the European Commission, coordinated by the Faculty of Human Sciences (FCH-UCP) (Jul. 2017-Dec. 2021).
Senior Researcher at CECC | FCH-UCP (Research Centre for Communication and Culture) since 2016, and Junior Researcher since 2010; her research focuses on contemporary art and its contribution to the development of the cultural panorama of societies. She was a recipient of an ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Collaborative Project Workshop Grant with the project “Teaching in the Era of Digital Humanities: a Multi-Disciplinary Perspective” with three postdoctoral colleagues from Goethe Univ., Frankfurt, Germany; Stockholm Univ., Sweden; and Milan Univ., Italy.
Ana Fabíola Maurício holds a double-program Ph.D. degree (2016) in Culture Studies by The Lisbon Consortium, FCH-UCP, and in Literary and Cultural Studies by the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig Universität, Giessen, Germany (co-tutelle European Ph.D. Network – Portugal, Italy, Germany, Sweden, and Finland). She was awarded a Ph.D. grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2011-2015). She finished her M.A. degree in Media Studies, specialising in Cultural Management and Communication in 2010, and her B.A. degree in Applied Foreign Languages (English-French) in 2007 at FCH-UCP.
Between 2008 and 2009 she worked for the Education Department of history and art museums of Lisbon City Council, having developed, and implemented pedagogical projects. She has participated and presented papers in multiple national and international conferences, symposia, and summer schools since 2009, having worked in the organisation of several academic programmes and events for the CECC as Scientific Research Assistant as well as for The Lisbon Consortium as Project Officer between 2008 and 2012. Since 2010 she has published articles, interviews, translations, and chapters in several books and journals, and since 2018 she has co-curated exhibitions and co-written and published a series of exhibition catalogues. Her co-curatorial projects with Luísa Santos include exhibitions at Appleton – Cultural Association, Amélia de Mello Foundation Gallery - Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Paços – Torres Vedras Municipal Gallery, Ocupart/Livraria Sá da Costa, Tensta Konsthall (Stockholm, Sweden).