Sara Albuquerque

Researcher in History of Science at IHC, University of Évora, IN2PAST. She is PI of the project KNOW.AFRICA | KNOWledge networks in 19th-century AFRICA: A Digital Humanities approach to colonial encounters and local knowledge in the narratives of Portuguese expeditions (1853-1888) (ref. FCT-2022.01599.PTDC; https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01599.PTDC) and PI of the exploratory project - W.Box.Project: Ward's box as a pedagogical object in the dissemination of the History of Science (EXPL/In2Past/2023/07). She worked previously as a post-doctoral researcher at the same research unit - IHC (2014-2019), at the Natural History Museum in London (2013) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG) (2007-2012) as a researcher and digitiser. While at RBG, Kew she obtained a collaborative award and concluded her PhD in History of Science at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2013. She is Honorary Research Associate at RBG, Kew and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. She works in the areas of natural sciences and humanities, with particular interests in history of science, collections of natural history, museology, material culture, scientific heritage, botany, economic botany, ethnobotany, gender, world exhibitions, Africa, South America, expeditions (19th century) and cross-cultural encounters.