Marisa Pereira Santos has a PhD in Heritage Studies - History of Art, with the research "Silêncio... a Foz vai doirando lentamente..." Território, Devoção e Práticas Culturais da Foz do Douro, FCT (SFRH/BD/145807/2019). She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (Department of Heritage Studies). She dedicates her studies to the disciplinary area of History of Art, in the sub-area of Image Studies. She is an integrated researcher at CITCEM in the Tangible and Intangible Heritage group.