FCT PhD Fellowships 2024
FCT PhD Fellowships 2024
Do you want to pursue a PhD in archaeology to study prehistory or primate archaeology?
The Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) announced a national call for fellowships aimed at financial support of PhD candidates, with a deadline fixed to the 15th of April 2024.
ICArEHB, with its extensive experience, has hosted numerous fellowships funded by FCT and is actively seeking candidates for this program.
If you are interested in prehistoric and/or primate archaeology and want to develop your research with an ICArEHB researcher, please find below a list of potential themes and supervisors. If you find one that interests you, please contact the potential supervisor directly.
| Possible themes of research | Main supervisor |
| Coastal Populations and the Spread of Agriculture: microscopic and molecular evidence from archaeological shell middens and soils | Carlos Duarte Simões |
| Plant use practices during the development of farming in Southeast Anatolia | Ceren Kabukcu |
| Project ‘NAI-FA’ investigates symbolic significance of domestic animals in Iberian Early Neolithic, utilizing Anatolian Neolithic sites as multiproxy. A PhD grant is available for isotopic analysis of human and animal remains. | Cláudia Costa |
| Investigating Neanderthal stone tool use during the Late Middle Paleolithic in Central and Eastern Europe | João Marreiros |
| Dental microwear in modern diets: a framework for archaeological data | Maria Ana Correia |
| Diet assessment through dental microwear in the Portuguese Mesolithic-Neolithic | Maria Ana Correia |
| Isotopic and Bioanthropological analyses of Eira Pedrinha (Neolithic-Chalcolithic) | Maria Ana Correia |
| Faunal analysis of late Pleistocene mammals in southeastern Africa | René Bobe |
| Paleoecology of Miocene mammals in eastern Africa | René Bobe |
| Taxonomy of Miocene mammals from Gorongosa National Park | René Bobe |
| Depositional environments and micromorphology of a Miocene bonebed in the East African Rift Valley | Susana Carvalho |
| Feeding ecology of living primates in Gorongosa National Park | Susana Carvalho |
| Primate models for the origins of bipedalism and predatory behaviour | Susana Carvalho |
| Investigating the Significance of Bipolar Technology in the Evolution of Stone Tools: A Comprehensive Exploration | Tomos Proffitt |
| Exploring the geochemistry and mineralogy behind DNA taphonomy in archaeological settings | Vera Aldeias |
| No specific topic has been chosen yet, but available to serve as supervisor | Alvise Barbieri |
| No specific topic has been chosen yet, but available to serve as supervisor | Anna Rufà |
| Available to serve as supervisor for other topics | Tomos Proffitt |
The FCT call will be open to candidates of every nationality. However, if your bachelor and master degrees were not issued by Portuguese institutions, your degrees must have been recognised and graded according to the Portuguese norms before the 15th of April 2024. If you did not obtain the degree recognition yet, find more information here.
If you have any questions please contact icarehb@ualg.pt.