Catarina Frois has a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, by the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Currently is Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Researcher in Anthropology. She is author of several books and scientific articles, both national and international, with a special emphasis in the study of security policies, incarceration, control and surveillance technologies.

Antónia Pedroso de Lima graduated in Anthropology at ISCTE (Lisbon, 1987), has a MA in Urban Anthropology from Barcelona University (Tarragona, 1991), an MA in Sociology of the Family ISCTE (1993), Ph.D in Anthropology (ISCTE 2001) and Habilitation in Anthropology (ISCTE, 2020). Professor at the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE since 1989, former President of CRIA, the National Research Centre in Social Anthropology (Portugal), former member of the scientific Committee of Openedition (CNRS) and founder of the LusOpenedition (Lusophone Countries) and former member of the National Committee for the Intangible Heritage (Portuguese Ministry of Culture). Specialist on kinship theory, gender and contemporary family relations Antónia Lima is the author numerous publications on family in Portugal (focusing both on working class neighbourhoods, middle class families and economic elite), gender, emotions, care, austerity and precarity. Her present research interests are on family relations, gender, care, social reproduction and precarity. Since 2014 Antónia pedroso de Lima is one of the directors of Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Women's Film Festival, the first Portuguese film festival dedicated to women in cinema.

Nélia Dias has a Maitrîse en Anthropologie et Sociologie by the Université René- Descartes /Sorbonne and a PhD by the EHESS (Paris) under the supervision of Pierre Nora.  She is member “Petroculture’s Intersections with The Cultural Heritage sector in the context of green transitions” (PITCH) - december 2023/ november 2027. The project is co-financed by the EU Horizon Europe program and the UK Research & Innovation for a total of 3.283.000 euros. She is currently director of the Conselho Cientifico of IN2PAST - Laboratory for Research in Heritage, Art, Sustainability and Territory) She was part of the CHEurope 'Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe', H2020 Marie Curie, MSCA ITN, Nr - 722416 ( 2017-2021).  She was director of the PhD program in Anthropology Politicas e Imagens da Cultura e Museologia, between ISCTE-IUL and NOVA / FCSH, and three research centers :CRIA, IELT e INET-md between 2013 and 2020.   She has been  Visiting Fellow at the University of Saint-Andrews ( February -April 2018) , Directrice d'études associée at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme/ Ecole Normale Supérieure ( October/ December 2017), International Visiting Fellow - Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia (2016) e Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) where she conducted, along with F. Vidal, the project 'Endangerment and its consequences', published as Endangerment, Diversity and Culture ( Routledge 2016).  In 2009, she was Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Tulane University ( New Orleans) fall semester.   She was between 1998 and 2001 member of the Conseil du Patrimoine Ethnologique, Ministère de la Culture (France) and is, since 2019, member of the Conseil d'Orientation stratégique de l'École Universitaire de Recherche (EUR).     

He holds a PhD in Anthropology and his Professor in the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and has been a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil in 2009-10 and 2017-18. Vice-President of the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and Diretor of CRIA-IUL. He has made several investigations in Portugal, Spain and Brazil working on themes such as body, ritual, heritage, tourism and, above all, in the area of ​​cultural performances, artistic practices and political activism. He has been collaborating with diverse structures and artistic events.

Vera Lazzaretti studied Philosophy and Cultural Anthropology in Italy and holds a Ph.D. in Indian and Tibetan Studies from the University of Turin (2013). Before joining CRIA, she worked at the University of Milan, the University of Oslo and the South Asia Institute at Heidelberg University. Vera’s main field site is urban north India, and her research interests include the anthropology of space and place; religion and politics; contested heritage; securitisation and policing; inter-religious violence; religious offence; pilgrimage; Hindu nationalism; and ethnography.