As director and co-director
Since 2017. PaleoCoast (PI), Paleolithic human coastal adaptation in southwestern Iberian Peninsula. Sagres, Portugal.
Since 2017. Transaire (PI), The Late Pleistocene-Holocene transition in Iberian Peninsula: human ecological and technological adaptation, and the Epipaleolithic mosaic in central Portugal. Torres Novas, Portugal.
Since 2015. EcoPis (co-PI), Human occupation in the Pleistocene Ecotones of River Lis. Leiria, Portugal. Web: ecoplis.jimdo.com
2006 – 2007. Carta arqueológica subaquática do Concelho de Lagos, Portugal. Underwater archaeological survey in Lagos’s bay.
As invited specialist
Since 2018. TransCause – Pleistocene Cultural transformations and population dynamics in Southern Caucasus
Since 2018. Middle Paleolithic seasonal land use adaptations in the Armenian volcanic highlands:
Excavations at Kalavan 2. Funded by Leakey
Since 2016. Settlement of Homo sapiens in Central North Bulgaria, chronostratigraphy and Pleistocene paleoenviroment in the context of the Lower Danube valley. Funded by NAIM-BAS (Bulgaria) and Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI- EVA), Leipzig.
2013 – 2015. Middle Stone Age archaeology and the origins of modern humans in southern Mozambique. Funded by FCT PTDC/EPH-ARQ/4998/2012
2011 – 2014. The last Neanderthals and the emergence of Modern Humans in Southwestern Iberia. Funded by FCT PTDC/HIS-ARQ/117540/2010.
2011 – 2014. The last hunter-gatherers of Muge (Portugal): the origins of social complexity. Funded by FCT PTDC/HIS-ARQ/112156/2009.
As Younger Researcher (PhD student)
2009 – 2015. Younger researcher, SPLASHCOS – Submerge prehistoric archaeology and landscape of the continental shelf. European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST).