Monique Palma

PhD student in History at the University of Porto in Portugal. She holds a fellowship from Capes (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel – Coordinating efforts to improve the quality of Brazil’s faculty and staff in higher education through grant programs). She is a member of CITCEM (Transdisciplinary Research Centre). She currently researches the circulations of medical surgical knowledge between Portugal and Brazil in the eighteenth century, as part of the history of science.