Meet the ICArEHB Team
The ICArEHB Board of Direction

João Cascalheira
DIRECTOR
I am interested in prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptations, specifically in how these are related to processes of climate and environmental change

Célia Gonçalves
Adaptations to Coastal environments
Mobility and Settlement, Patterns Spatial Analysis, Predictive Modelling, Geographical Information Systems

Hugo Rafael Oliveira
Emergence and Evolution of food producing societies
Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture

Erich C. Fisher
History of Archaeological Science
Archaeoinformatics, Africa, Coastal Adaptations

Ana Gomes
Prehistoric behavior and dispersals in Africa
Diatom species and their ecology, Paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Geoarchaeology

Anna Rufà
DYNAMICS OF PALEOLITHIC PEOPLE IN EURASIA
Small prey taphonomy, with special attention on leporids and birds
Administration and Strategy

Godefroy Devevey
Science Strategy Officer
Funding, development, strategy and support operation.

Catarina Marques
Administration and Communication
Daily management of the Centre,.Science Communication
Researchers

Alvise Barbieri
Researchers
Geoarchaeology, Geomorphology, reconstruction of past landscapes and environments

Ana Avila de Melo
Researcher
Archaeometallurgy, History of Archaeology

António Valera
researcher
Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology, funerary practices

Aurore Val
researcher
Zooarchaeology and field archaeology, prehistoric human/animal interactions

Camille Lesage
researcher
Lithic technology, techno-economy of lithic raw materials

Carlos Duarte Simões
researcher
Interactions between past human societies and the environment

Ceren Kabukcu
researcher
Archaeobotany, Palaeoecology, Palaeolithic plant use, Origins of agriculture

Cláudia Costa
researcher
Zooarchaeology and Archaeology from prehistoric complex societies

Cristina Cruz
associated researcher
Human behaviour (Ethology) and human remains from the Palaeolithic

Eduardo Paixão
researcher
Lithic Technology, use Wear, Residue analysis

Emily Hallinan
researcher
Technology and landscape use in the southern African Stone Age

Flora Schilt
researcher
Prehistoric hunter gatherers, pyrotechnology, and archaeological contexts in tropical environments

Frederico Tátá Regala
researcher
Zooarchaeology, Speleology

Gina Buckley
researcher
Prehistoric human mobility and migration through stable and radiogenic isotope analyses and radiocarbon dating

João Luís Cardoso
researcher
History of Archeology, Geoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology

Li Li
researcher
Reconstructing hominin behavior from the lithic record

Lucía Cobo Sánchez
researcher
Hominin subsistence behaviour, taphonomic and spatial analysis of faunal remains

Lucy Evangelista
researcher
Physical Anthropology

Maria Ana Correia
researcher
Study of human beings in a transdisciplinary framework, focusing on the study of the human past as means to understand our present and future

Maria João Martins
researcher
Paleobiology, ecosystems dynamics and evolution

Marina Évora
researcher
Osseous industry, Hunter-Gatherers, Zooarchaeology

May Murungi
researcher
Reconstructing past vegetation cover and past human-environment interactions during the Quaternary in eastern and southern Africa through phytolith analysis

Milena Carvalho
researcher
Reconstructing human ecology during the late Pleistocene in Iberia; Human responses to climatic and environmental change

Nuno Bicho
Researcher and ualg Vice-Rector for Research and culture
Paleolithic and Mesolithic: times of change and transition; and on coastal human adaptations

Patricia Monteiro
researcher
Firewood explotation during Prehistory

Paul Goldberg
researcher
Application of micromorphological techniques to the study of site formation processes at archaeological sites

Pedro Horta
Researcher
Evolution of hominin adaptation and migration strategies

Ricardo Godinho
researcher
The evolution of skull form and function in fossil hominins and modern humans

Rita Dias
researcher
Zooarchaeology, Ichthyological remains and seasonality studies

Rui Machado
researcher
Bioinformatics, big data analysis and molecular biology

Sara Rhodes
researcher
Hunter-gatherer archaeology, microvertebrates, taphonomy

Sol Sánchez-Dehesa Galán
researcher
Lithic technology, knapping learning processes, technical diversity of early hominin

Tomos Proffitt
researcher
Emergence, development and variation of the earliest technologies, experimental archaeological and primate archaeological techniques

Vera Aldeias
researcher
Geoarchaeologist interested in unravelling past human behavior from its sedimentary signatures
Associated Researchers

Ana Abrunhosa
associated researcher
Lithic Raw Materials

Carolina Mallol
associated researcher
Geoarchaeology, Microstratigraphy

Cláudia Umbelino
associated researcher
Past Cultures and Populations

Cristina Veiga-Pires
associated researcher
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

Cruz Ferro-Vázquez
associated researcher
Soil science, paleoenvironmental reconstruction

Daniel Garcia Rivero
associated researcher
Evolutionary theoretical and methodological approaches to Late Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula and the Southwestern Mediterranean

Darren Fa
associated researcher
Palaeoecology and human evolution, especially linked to the exctinction of the Neanderthals

Delminda Moura
associated researcher
Coastal morphodynamics

Javier Sánchez Martínez
associated researcher
Lithic technology, diachronic changes in stone tools, Upper Paleolithic

João Marreiros
associated researcher
Early hominn technological evolution, especially how stone tools were designed

Jonathan Haws
associated researcher
Human land-use and decision-making as part of a socio-natural process

Juan Gibaja Bao
associated researcher
Lithic Technology

Katarina Almeida-Warren
associated researcher
Archaeology of non-human primates to shed light on the behaviours, technology, and culture of our earliest ancestors

Lukas Friedl
associated researcher
Human evolution, Functional morphology, Bioarcheology

Maria Simón Vallejo
associated researcher
Prehistory and archeology in the south of Iberia

Michael Benedetti
associated researcher
Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, and Paleolithic geoarchaeology

Miguel Cortés Sánchez
associated researcher
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Palaeolithic symbolism, Coastal adaptation

Mussa Raja
associated researcher
African archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Study of stone tools, Settlement Patterns

Pedro Gonçalves
associated researcher
Geoarchaeology, Landscape evolution

René Bobe Quinteros
associated researcher
Evolution of African ecosystems and the ecology of human origins

Robert Foley
associated researcher
Human evolutionary and behavioural ecology and its relationship to micro and macroevolutionary processes

Rosalind Gillis
associated researcher
Prehistoric animal husbandry practices, adaptations of European livestock management systems to novel environments

Ruth Taylor
associated researcher
Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology), Petrology of Ceramics and Stone Artifacts, Ceramic Petrography

Shannon McPherron
associated researcher
Human evolution from the origins of stone tool use to the spread of Homo sapiens

Susana Carvalho
associated researcher
Primatologiy, palaeoanthropology, Primate Archaeology

Tiina Manne
associated researcher
Analyses of past diets to understand people’s responses to large-scale climate, environmental and cultural change

Xavier Terradas
associated researcher
Socioeconomic strategies throughout prehistoric times
Ph.D. Students

Adriana Leite
Ph.D. Student
Ancient consumption patterns

Ana Catarina Basilio
Ph.D. Student
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age transition

Anastasia Eleftheriadou
Ph.D. Student
Computational archaeology, Geophysics, Geoinformatics

Cláudia Relvado
Ph.D. Student
Diet, health and mobility in Portuguese Neolithic / Chalcolithic populations

Daniela Maio
PH.D. Student
Analysis of mobility and settlement patterns during Middle and Upper Paleolithic using Geographic Information System (GIS)

Degsew Zerihun
Ph.D. Student
Plant and Human Culture, Paleobotany

Helena Reis
Ph.D. Student
Lithic analysis, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods

Humphrey Nyambiya
Ph.D. Student
Archaeozoology, Environmental Archaeology, Palaeoproteomics

Joana Belmiro
Ph.D. Student
Upper Paleolithic, Lithics

João Varela
PH.D. Student
Archaeology of the Paleolithic and Neolithic

Jovan Galfi
Ph.D. Student
Hunter-gatherer archaeology, Lithic technology

Miguel Soares Remiseiro
Ph.D. Student
Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Iberia using micromorphological and geoarchaeological methods

Nolan Ferar
Ph.D. Student
Evolution of lithic technology and knapping behaviors, and how these can shed light on cultural and cognitive evolution in the hominin lineage

Nompumelelo
Maringa
Ph.D. Student
Reconstructing the environment from thousands of years ago with the use of animal fossils recovered from archaeological cave sites

Osman Karrar
Ph.D. Student
Technology, palaeogeography and landscape use in the Sudanese Stone Age

Roxane Matias
Ph.D. Student
Anthracology, Archaeobotany

Seba Sultan Mayya
PH.D. Student
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction, Human-Environment interactions

Valentina Lubrano
Ph.D. Student
Zooarchaeology and taphonomy to provide new data to discover Neanderthal behaviour

William Chase Murphree
Ph.D. Student
Sedimentary signature for late Neanderthal and Modern Human fire use in late Pleistocene Europe

Youssef Djellal
Ph.D. Student
Lithic technology, use-wear analysis on stone tools
Master Students

Judite Artur Nhanombe
Master Student
Environmental archaeology

Leonor Filipe
Master Student
Zooarcheology and Mesolithic

Patrícia Simão
Master Student
Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology

Stela Gujamo
Master Student
Archaeological heritage
Associated Students

André Santana
Associated Student
Geoarchaeology, Microarchaeology, Pyrotechnology

David Nora
Associated Student
Paleolithic archaeology, understanding how different raw materials influence human decision-making

Elena Skosey-LaLonde
Associated Student
Stable Isotopes, Geochemistry, Geoarchaeology

Grace Ellis
Associated Student
Landscape archaeology, ancient land use practices, and human-environment interactions in the precolumbian tropics and paleolithic Portugal

Leandro Infantini
Associated Student
Underwater Archaeology and Geographic Information System in Archaeology (GIS)

Lino André
Associated Student
Personal adornments from the Mesolithic and Early Neolithic contexts

Sofia Fonseca
Associated Student
African Archaeology, Cultural cooperation, Heritage