Fernanda Carvalho has a graduate degree in Fine Arts, specialising in Ceramics and History, Theory and Criticism, at UFRGS, Brazil. She also completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Conservation and Restoration at FCT-NOVA, specialising in ceramics and glass. In 2024 she completed her PhD in Materials Science at CENIMAT/i3N, studying historical and restoration mortars used in built cultural heritage. She is currently a member of the ChromAz Project and collaborates with the HEDGE Project, digitising 3D mobile heritage. She is interested in the optimisation of ceramic and glazed materials, ceramic additive manufacturing processes and studies on the conservation of ceramic heritage materials.
Representative works:
Carvalho, F., Nunes, A., Pagará, A., Costeira, I., da Silva, T. P., Lima, M. M. R. A., & Veiga, J. P. (2024). Historical lime‐based flooring mortars from the Church of Santa Maria de Alcobaça monastery (12th century), Portugal: A multi‐analytical approach. Archaeometry.
Carvalho, F., Lima, M. M. R., Kavoulaki, E., Leal, N., Simão, J., Galhano, C., … & Veiga, J. P. (2023). Decay products of historical cements from the Palace of Knossos, Crete, Greece. Journal of Cultural Heritage, 64, 113-119.
Carvalho, F., Sousa, P., Leal, N., Simão, J., Kavoulaki, E., Lima, M. M., … & Veiga, J. P. (2021). Mortars from the Palace of Knossos in Crete, Greece: a multi-analytical approach. Minerals, 12(1), 30.
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