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). She is the Head of the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE, where she is based 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). She is the Director of the Interdisciplinary MA Program on Gender and Sexuality Studies. Specialist on kinship theory, gender and contemporary family relations Antónia Lima is the author of 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.