Short Bio

Margarida Portela has a PhD in Contemporary History from Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas | Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH/NOVA) where, on November 9, 2020, she publicly defended her doctoral thesis entitled O Serviço Médico-Militar Português na Grande Guerra. Organização, Funcionamento e Repercussões [The Portuguese Army Medical Service in the Great War. Organization, Logistics and Repercussions].

As a Military Historian, the researcher is currently working the First World War and the Portuguese presence in its African and European operational theaters, visible during the fateful years of 1914 - 1918. Her main topics of interest are the Portuguese military healthcare system during the Great War and the internationalization of Portuguese Medicine during the 19th and 20th centuries.

From November 2012 to June 2020, Margarida Portela was an Integrated Researcher at Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC FCSH/NOVA) and, since July 2020, she is an Integrated Researcher in "História, Territórios e Comunidades" (HTC FCSH/NOVA) a researchers hub that belongs to Centro de Ecologia Funcional - Ciência para as Pessoas e o Planeta, based in Coimbra University.

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