FCT PhD Fellowships 2025
FCT PhD Fellowships 2025
Do you want to pursue a PhD in archaeology to study prehistory or primate archaeology?
If the procedure follows previous years, the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) will soon announce a national call for fellowships to provide financial support for PhD candidates.
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 |
| Reconstructing Paleolithic human ecology in western Iberia through zooarchaeology and isotope zooarchaeology | Milena Moreira de Carvalho |
| The prehistoric origins of inequality in the Portuguese territory | Hugo Oliveira |
| The use of fire during the palaeolithic: developing a systematic approach of the evidence and quantitative synthesis tools for human evolution | Godefroy Devevey |
| Tracing Diet and Social Change at Eira-Pedrinha: Insights from Stable Isotopic Analysis and Radiocarbon Dating in the Neolithic to Bronze Age | Maria Ana Correia |
| Late Pleistocene caves and paleoenvironments in southeast Africa | Frederico Tátá Regala |
| Augmenting palaeodemographic analysis: Geometric morphometrics and machine learning based sex estimation of mandibles | Ricardo Miguel Godinho |
| Evolution and biogeography of Afrotheria in southeastern Africa | René Bobe |
| Paleomicrobiology of typhus and cholera: an ancient DNA and bioanthropological study of 19th century human remains. | Hugo Oliveira |
| Neotaphonomy of small vertebrates in a modern African savanna ecosystem: implications for archaeological assemblages | René Bobe |
| Vertebrate taphonomy: from predation to fossilisation in the African Rift Valley | Susana Carvalho |
| Paleoepidemiology of tuberculosis: using ancient DNA and skeletal stress indicators in human remains to study the evolution of the disease. | Hugo Oliveira |
| Investigating technological behaviour of Late Neanderthals in Iberia | Javier Sánchez Martínez |
| Woodland architecture at Perdigões enclosure: an anthracological approach | Patrícia Monteiro |
| Available to serve as supervisor for other topics | Javier Sánchez Martínez |
| Available to serve as supervisor for other topics | Patrícia Monteiro |
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 submission date. If you did not obtain the degree recognition yet, find more information here.
If you have any questions please contact icarehb@ualg.pt.