Biography
Ana Castro completed her PhD in Linguistics in 2006, as part of a joint programme between Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Université Paris 8. In 2009, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, both funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal).
Since 2013, she has been a coordinating professor at the School of Health Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal and a researcher with the LiFE (Formal and Experimental Linguistics) Group at the Linguistics Centre of Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Her international experience includes stays as a Visiting Student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Université Paris 8, and as a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Between 2007 and 2009, she was an Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge.
At the scientific level, she has published 3 articles in specialised journals, 11 papers in conference proceedings, 4 book chapters and 2 books, as well as a registered product and more than 30 items of technical production. She has supervised 9 master's dissertations (one in co-supervision) and 24 final degree projects in the field of Speech Therapy.
Between 1996 and 2015, he participated in 10 research projects, coordinating 2 of them, and is currently involved in 3 active projects. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with 40 co-authors on scientific publications, consolidating a career marked by interdisciplinary research and the training of new professionals.