Marta Lourenço

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Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências


Email mclourenco@ciencias.ulisboa.pt

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Currículo Resumido

Marta C. Lourenço is a researcher and present director of the National Museum of Natural History and Science of the University of Lisbon (MUHNAC). She has background training in Physics (University of Lisbon), a MA in Museology (Nova, Lisbon) and a PhD in Museology and History of Technology (CNAM, Paris). She is the PI of PRISC (Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections). She teaches Material Culture of Science in the Masters of History and Philosophy of Science (Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon) and is a research member of CIUHCT, the Interuniversity Research Centre for the History of Science and Technology (University of Lisbon). Since 2016, she is the President of the International Committee for University Museums and Collections (UMAC) of the International Council of Museums. She has been awarded the Vital Brazil Medal (2014) and the George Sarton Medal of the University of Gent (2015).


Publicações selecionadas
  • Marta C. Lourenço & José Pedro Sousa Dias, 2017. The ‘time capsules’ of science: Museums, collections and scientific heritage in Portugal. Isis, 108 (2): 390-8
  • M. C. Lourenço & L. Wilson 2013. Scientific heritage: Reflections on its nature and new approaches to preservation, study and access. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 44: 744-753. DOI 10.1016/j.shpsa.2013.07.011.
  • David Felismino & Marta C. Lourenço, 2017. Les cabinets de physique du roi du Portugal (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles): Organisation, dispersion et collections perdues. Artefact 5: 11-26, http://journals.openedition.org/artefact/599.
  • Marta C. Lourenço & S. Gessner, 2012. Documenting collections: Cornerstones for more history of science in museums. Science & Education 23 (4): 727-45 (DOI 10.1007/s11191-012-9568-z).
  • Marta C. Lourenço (coord.), 2016. A Universidade de Lisboa: Museus, Coleções e Património, Imprensa da Universidade de Lisboa/Universidade de Lisboa.

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