Biography

Quintino Lopes is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Foundation for Science and Technology-funded R&D project PHONLAB — Phonetics Laboratory: Coimbra – Harvard. Rethinking 20th-century scientific centres and peripheries, leading a team of 13 researchers attached to the Universities of Évora (Portugal), Coimbra (Portugal), Porto (Portugal), Stockholm (Sweden) and Macau (China).

Lopes is the scientific coordinator of the IHC’s Research Group on History of Science, Technology and the Environment (NOVA University Lisbon / University of Évora), leading a team of over 40 researchers. He acted as an expert reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant 2025 call. In 2024, he worked at Stockholm University as a visiting researcher. He has received three international awards.

In 2025, he was awarded an Assistant Researcher contract from the Foundation for Science and Technology, under the auspices of the competitive Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus.

Research fields

• Contemporary history
• History of science
• Comparative and transnational history
• Military dictatorship / Estado Novo

Selected publications

• Pereira, Elisabete, Catarina Simões & Quintino Lopes (Coords.). “Colonial and post-colonial collections in Portugal: reconstructing trajectories and rethinking narratives,” História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos 32 (2025) (Special Issue). [link]🔓
• Lopes, Quintino, Francisco de Lacerda & Ana Simões. “Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory, 1930–1979: Cross-National Mobility and Exchange in a Global Context,” Centaurus 66 (2024): 319-350. [link]🔓
• Lopes, Quintino. The global periphery: Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Experimental Phonetics Laboratory (1936-1979). Stockholm: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2023. [ToC]
• Lopes, Quintino & Elisabete J. Santos Pereira. “Science funding under an authoritarian regime: Portugal’s National Education Board and the European ‘academic landscape’ in the interwar period,” Notes and Records (2021): http://doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2021.0037 [link]🔓

Main projects

• Coordinator of the project ‘PHONLAB — Phonetics Laboratory: Coimbra – Harvard. Rethinking 20th-century scientific centres and peripheries‘ — Hsted by the IHC — University of Évora and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2022.06811.PTDC). 2023-2026 [link]
• Researcher in the project ‘CISDNE — El proyecto de cooperación intelectual de la Sociedad de Naciones. Presencia española e iniciativas afines‘ — Coordinated by Álvaro Ribagorda (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Leoncio López-Ocón (Instituto de Historia — CSIC) and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (PID2022-141696NB-I00, MCIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033). [link]
• Researcher in the project ‘TRANSMAT — Transnational materialities (1850-1930): reconstituting collections and connecting histories’ — Coordinated by Elisabete Pereira (IHC — University of Évora) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC /FER-HFC /2793/2020). 2021-2025 [link]
• Team member of the project “Desafíos educativos y científicos de la Segunda República Española: internacionalización, popularización, innovación en universidades e instituto” — Coordinated by Leoncio López-Ocón (Instituto de Historia — CSIC) and Álvaro Ribagorda (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), and funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (Spain) (PGC2018-097391-B-I00). 2019-2022 [link]