Sofia Perestrelo

Sofia Perestrelo Sampaio Oliveira (Vila Nova de Gaia, 1999) has a degree (2020) and a master degree (2023) in Conservation and Restoration from the School of Arts of the Portuguese Catholic University of Porto. Her area of interest is natural history collections, and her master’s thesis used the osteological collection of the Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Porto as a case study, with the aim of creating an illustrated glossary of the pathologies that are possible to find in these collections. The name of her dissertation is "Patologias associadas à coleção osteológica do Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da Universidade do Porto. Levantamento e Definição" and at the same time she was a trainee in the Museum where she deepened and improved her knowledge about these collections and how to conserve them. She also had the opportunity to present her dissertation at the international conference Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections 2022 in Edinburgh.