Postdoctoral Researcher
Ethnomusicologist and cultural anthropologist specializing in fado music. Since 2006, she has conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Lisbon, focusing on fado traditions, performance practices, and local musical communities. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology of Music from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has completed postgraduate studies in Ethnomusicology at Université Paris VIII Saint-Denis and Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
She collaborates with the Ethnomusicology and Cultural Anthropology Laboratory of the Department of Music Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and is a member of SIBE and IASPM. Her research employs the theory and methodology of verbal and oral art to examine fado performance practices and community dynamics, with additional interests in dramaturgy and physical theatre.
She has presented her work at numerous international conferences and published in peer-reviewed journals. From 2011 until 2013, she organised a series of fado concerts in Greece in collaboration with Specs’n’Arts and Listen-Loud, under the auspices of the Embassy of Portugal in Athens. She was awarded by the Club of UNESCO for Piraeus and Islands for her contribution to the promotion of cultural heritage.
She is currently conducting postdoctoral research on the fado music industry, hosted by the Sound and City Research Group of the Department of Art and Musicology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona within the Horizon Europe framework.