Amélia Polónia - Curriculum Vitae#
EDUCATION
- 2000 Ph.D. in Early Modern and Modern History. University of Porto, Portugal
- 1990 MSc in History. University of Porto, Portugal
- 1988 Post-Graduation in Information Sciences –Archives. University of Lisbon, Portugal
INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS
- Scientific Coordinator, CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory)
- Department Head, Department of History, Political and International Studies, UPorto (2007-2014)
- Director of the MSc in African Studies, UPorto (2014 - )
- Member of scientific boards of the PhD in History, TEEME Erasmus Mundus PhD programme; the MSc program in History and Heritage, UPorto (2007-2014; 2014 - )
- Elected member of the Scientific and Pedagogical Councils. Faculty of Arts, UPorto (2014 - )
- Elected member of the Council of Representatives (2009-2012)
MEMBERSHIP OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
- IMHA (International Maritime History Association), Vice-President
- ESEH (European Society for Environmental History)
- FEEGI (Forum for European Expansion and Global Interaction)
- AHILA (Iberian Latin American Historians Association)
- GIS (Groupement d'Intérêt Scientifique en Histoire Maritime), CNRS
- APHES (Portuguese Association of Social and Economic History)
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
- Panel member of the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, Portugal (2015)
- Board of Consultants of Brill’s Studies Series in Maritime History (2015)
- European Science Foundation Pool of Reviewers for Humanities (2007 - 2014)
- Review panel member, ARSS – Slovenian Research Agency Review (2013)
- Panel of evaluators APHES Awards (2011; 2014)
- Panel member of FCT Call for PhD Studentships and Post-Doc fellowships (2011-2012)
- Panel of internal evaluation of the University of Porto ( 2007)
RESEARCH FUNDING
- Since 2019, Advisory board member, ERC Advanced Grant, RUTTER - Making the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Construction of a Global Concept of the Earth
- 2013-2018, Advisory board member, ERC Starting Grant Fighting Monopolies, Defying Empires 1500-1750: a Comparative Overview of Free Agents and Informal Empires in Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire, coord. Cátia Antunes (2013-2018)
- 2007-2011, PI of the Portuguese team of DynCoopNet - Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Networks in the First Global Age (ESF 06-TECT-FP-004; FCT - TECH/0002/2007)(165 000€) http://www.dyncoopnet-pt.org
- 2011-2013, PI of DigEscravo (Funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- 2009-2010, PI of DigDoc Funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
- 2001-2005, PI of Hisportos. Contributions for the History of Portuguese Northwestern Seaprts (POCTI/HAR/36417/2000)
- Since 2012, Scientific Coordinator of the network “The governance of Atlantic Seaports”, involving researchers from Europe, Africa and Latin America. http://www.uned.es/gobernanza-puertos-atlanticos/indexEn.htm