Graça Videira Lopes  (b. 1952), is a member of the steering board of the Instituto de Estudos Medievais at the NOVA University of Lisbon, where she has been a professor at the Department of Portuguese Studies since 1982. In 2004, she was also guest Professor, at the Université Paris IV, Sorbonne.

After a PhD in Medieval Literature (1993), specifically on the Galician-Portuguese satirical songs, she has been working and publishing on the troubadours’ world. In this area, she was the chief researcher of “Littera’s Project”, a project also funded by FCT, which resulted in the Galician-Portuguese Medieval Songs database and site, online since 2011, (http://cantigas.fcsh.unl.pt).

In addiction to several papers, she is the author of the books:
Cantigas galego-portuguesas – corpus integral profano, Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional, 2016 (with Manuel Pedro Ferreira)
Do canto à escrita: novas questões em torno da Lírica Galego-Portuguesa. Nos cem anos do Pergaminho Vindel, Lisboa, IEM/CESEM, 2016 (with Manuel Pedro Ferreira)
Cantigas de trovadores – de amor, de amigo, de maldizer, Jornal Público, 2015
Cantigas trovadorescas: da Idade Média aos nossos dias (with Manuel Masini), Lisboa, IEM, 2015
Cantigas de escárnio e maldizer dos trovadores e jograis galego-portugueses, Lisboa, Editorial Estampa, 2002
A sátira nos cancioneiros medievais galego-portugueses, Lisboa, Ed. Estampa, 1998

Maria João Melo is a Full Professor at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology-NOVA University of Lisbon, and a researcher at LAQV-Requimte and IEM at NOVA.

After a PhD in Physical Chemistry (1995), specifically in Photochemistry, she decided to apply her expertise towards conservation of works of art. As Italy is a leader in this area, she chooses to do her PostDoc in Florence (1996-98), working at the Italian Research Council (CNR). She became an expert in infrared spectroscopy applied to cultural heritage and started research on the photodegradation mechanisms in polymeric systems, predicting performance lifetimes.

Her current research subjects are focused in the study of the molecules of colour in Art, namely the photophysics and photochemistry of historical dyes. This knowledge is applied in the development of new conservation methodologies of Medieval Illuminations and of Contemporary Art.

Her present challenge is to strengthen her interdisciplinary research and approach, at the frontiers of the social and natural sciences, promoting public engagement.

Manuel Pedro Ferreira (n. 1959) has a PhD in Musicology from Princeton University (1997) and teaches since 2000 at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Nova University of Lisbon, where he coordinates the Center for Sociology and Musical Aesthetics Studies (CESEM) and holds the chair of Historical Musicology . He has dedicated himself mainly to teaching and researching Middle Ages and the Renaissance music, without neglecting the musical interpretation: since 1995 he has directed the Vozes Alfonsinas group, with which he recorded five albums. As a musicologist, he has published more than two hundred scientific papers and books and directed several research projects. He wrote or coordinated more than twenty books, including: O Som de Martin Codax (Lisboa, 1986); Cantus coronatus — Sete cantigas d’amor d’El-Rei Dom Dinis (Kassel, 2005); Dez compositores portugueses. Percursos da escrita musical no século XX (Lisboa, 2007); Antologia de Música em Portugal na Idade Média e no Renascimento, 2 vols. (Lisboa, 2008); Medieval Sacred Chant: from Japan to Portugal (Lisboa, 2008); A Sé de Braga. Arte, Liturgia e Música, do final do século XI à época tridentina (Lisboa, 2009); Aspectos da Música Medieval no Ocidente Peninsular, 2 vols. (Lisboa, 2009-2010); Revisiting the Music of Medieval France: from Gallican chant to Dufay (Farnham-Burlington, 2012); Harmonias do Céu e da Terra: A música nos manuscritos de Guimarães (séculos XII-XVII) (Lisboa-Guimarães, 2012); Musical exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian connections (Kassel, 2016), Música e História: Estudos em homenagem a Manuel Carlos de Brito (Lisboa, 2017) e A Notação das Cantigas de Santa Maria: Edição Diplomática, 3 vols. (Lisboa, 2017).

He has also been regularly a music critic and made inroads for musical composition and poetry. He is a member of the European Academy (since 2010) and the board of the International Society of Musicology (since 2012).

His preferential domains of investigation are the history of the language during the medieval period and the sociocultural context in which Galician-Portuguese lyrical arises and develops. In the first line are included works of editing and study of literary texts and instrumental documentation such as: Rui Vasques. Crónica de Santa Maria de Íria (2001), “Na origens da expressão escrita galego-portuguesa. Documentos do século XII” (2003), “A transição scriptográfica na produção documental portuguesa de 1257 a 1269” (2004), “Novas perspectivas sobre a génese da scripta romance na área galego-portuguesa. Textos e contextos” (2004), “Originais e cópias da Chancelaria de Afonso III: o exemplo de uma composição de 1257” (2005), Documentos galego-portugueses dos séculos XII e XIII (2008) or “Os primeiros escritos em galego-português: revisão e balanço” (2014).

As to the second field, he had published, among others: “Para um novo enquadramento histórico-literário de Airas Fernandes, dito “Carpancho” (2003), “Pedro Garcia de Ambroa e Pedro de Ambroa” (2006), Os cavaleiros que fizeram as cantigas. Aproximação às origens socioculturais da lírica galego-portuguesa (2012), “Fernando Pais de Tamalhancos: trovador e cavaleiro” (2012), “Lopo Lias: entre Orzelhão e Compostela” (2012), “In capella domini regis in Ulixbona e outras nótulas biográficas trovadorescas” (2012), “En Santiago, seend’ albergado en mia pousada. Notulas trovadorescas compostelanas” (2014), “Estudo biográfico [do trovador Nuno Eanes Cerzeo]” (in El arte de trovar de amor. Nuno Eanes Cerzeo y su producción poética, 2018), “En cas da Ifante. Figuras femininas no patrocínio da lírica galego-portuguesa (I)” (2016),  “Et de dona Guiomar nascio don Rodrigo Diaz de los Cameros. Figuras femininas no patrocínio da lírica galego-portuguesa (II” (2018), “Martim Codax e o fenómeno jogralesco na Galiza sul-ocidental” (2018).

Finally, we will mention two works on the handwritten tradition of historical romances or Latin productions such as: “A Crónica dos ministros gerais da Ordem dos Fraires Menores (BN 94 IL) e o seu antígrafo galego” (2016), “Liber Regristi Didaci secundi. Sobre a tradição manuscrita da História Compostelana” (2018).

Fabio Barberini. PhD in Gallo-Romanian Philology from the University of Messina (2014), he is a researcher at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa – FCSH, and an integrated member of the Institute of Medieval Studies (IEM). Since 2013 he has been a member of the Writing Committee of Cultura Neolatina magazine. Works on medieval Romanesque lyrical, namely Provencal, French and Galician-Portuguese (handwritten tradition and edition of texts); Anglo-Norman literature and relations between Jews and Christians in the 13th-14th centuries. He was a researcher in several international projects, including Manuscript Heritage of the Troubadours (MHT). Le Patrimoine manuscrit des Troubadours en pays d’Oc. Édition numérique du Chansonnier provençal R (2016-2017: Université de Toulouse 2 “Jean Jaurès” – CNRS); CAO “Corpus dell’Antico Occitanico” (2018: Università di Chieti-Pescara); Mecenazgo y creación literaria en la corte catalano-aragonesa (s. XIII-XV): evolución, contexto y biblioteca digital de referencia (2018: Universitat de Girona) e Troubadours and European Identity: The Role of Catalan Courts(2018: Universitat de Girona).

Paula Nabaisis a Researcher at the Department of Conservation and Restoration and LAQV-Requimte Research Unit, from the NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. Her Ph.D. project, entitled “Identity and connections within medieval heritage: color in the illuminated manuscript through the eyes of the molecular sciences and humanities,” was granted the award “Estimulo à Investigação” for the Chemistry Area by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. It encompassed the development of innovative methodologies for the identification and characterization of organic colorants in artworks. Recently, she has been dedicated to the study of medieval manuscripts and some of the most challenging materials to characterize in these artworks, iron-gall inks and yellow dyes. She is also a team member in two projects financed by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology, Stemma and Polyphenols in Art.