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Mafalda Costa

Invited Research Assistant Professor (HERCULES - HERCULES Lab - Cultural Heritage Studies and Safeguard)

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Doctoral Degree: Arqueologia & Ciências da Terra e do Espaço (Universidade de Gent & Universidade de Évora - 2021)
Master Degree: Arqueologia e Ambiente, Especialização Ciências dos Materiais Arqueológicos (ERASMUS MUNDUS - ARCHMAT) (Universidade de Évora - 2015)
Bachelor's Degree: Geologia - Ramo de Geologia e Recursos Naturais (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa - 2013)
HERCULES - HERCULES Lab - Cultural Heritage Studies and Safeguard (Integrated Member with doctorate)
/ Fundação “la Caixa”
acrónimo: GEO-Glass
ongoing
101162576 / Comissão Europeia
acrónimo: SCIGLO
em curso até 31/01/2026
2021-1-IT01-KA220-VET-000028100 / Comissão Europeia
acrónimo: ADELE-RS
finished in 01/05/2024
Hashim, H.; Dias, L.; Martins, S.; Pires, V.; Costa, M.; Barrulas, P. Optimization of the Application of Commercial Hydrophobic Coatings for Natural Stone Protection and Preservation. Heritage 2024, 7, 3495-3510. https:// doi.org/10.3390/heritage7070165
Gil, M.; Cardoso, I.; Costa, M.; Frade, J.C. Modern Muralists in the Spotlight: Technical and Material Characteristics of the 1946-1949 Mural Paintings by Almada Negreiros in Lisbon (Part1). Heritage 2024, 7, 3310-3331. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7060156
Lon?ari? V, Arruda AM, Barrulas P, Costa M. An Archaeometric Analysis of Black-Appearing Iron Age Glass Beads from Vinha das Caliças 4 (Portugal). Heritage. 2024; 7(3):1265-1297. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7030061
Armal, F.; Dias, L.; Mirão, J.; Pires, V.; Sitzia, F.; Martins, S.; Costa, M.; Barrulas, P. Chemical Composition of Hydrophobic Coating Solutions and Its Impact on Carbonate Stones Protection and Preservation. Sustainability 2023, 15, 16135. https://doi.org/10.3390/su152216135
A. Acevedo-Mejia, M. Costa, P. Vandenabeele, L. Dias, J.C. Frade & M. Gil*. An Insight into the Green Deteriorated Paint Layers at the Maritime Station of Alcântara (Lisbon): an Archeometric Study. International Journal of Conservation Science, 14(3): 1185-1204. DOI: 10.36868/IJCS.2023.03.27.
Dias L, Nunes R, Costa M, Caldeira AT, Mirão J, Barrulas P. Unveiling the Effectiveness of Innovative Commercial Coatings Used for the Preservation of Natural Stone?A Contribution. Heritage. 2023; 6(9):6328-6342. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6090331
Lon?ari?, V.; Costa, M. Known Glass Compositions in Iron Age Europe?Current Synthesis and Emerging Questions. Heritage 2023, 6, 3835-3863. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage6050204
Costa, M., Barrulas, P., Lopes, M.d.C. et al. Personal adornments in West-Central Africa?the case study of a talc bead from the Kongo Kingdom (Mbanza Kongo, Angola). Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 22 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01723-6
Rubio, L., Barrulas, P., Costa, M., Garcia-Jares, C., Lores, M., & Barrocas Dias, C. (2022). The chemistry behind the body art: unveiling the elemental profile and heavy metal content of natural tattoos and dyes by ICP-MS. RSC Advances, 12(53), 34414-34424. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ra06126k
M. Costa, P. Barrulas, A.M. Arruda, R. Barbosa, P. Vandenabeele & J. Mirão (2022). New approaches and developments in innovative methodologies to study faience using beads from Southern Portugal. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 46, 103703. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103703.
Gaspar, M.; Grácio, N.; Salgueiro, R.; Costa, M. Trace Element Geochemistry of Alluvial TiO2 Polymorphs as a Proxy for Sn and W Deposits. Minerals 2022, 12, 1248. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12101248
Rubio, L., Costa, M., Barrulas, P. et al. Understanding the chemical and mineralogical composition of commercial henna and jagua tattoos and dyes?a multi-analytical approach. Anal Bioanal Chem 414, 6233-6246 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-022-04194-1
Costa, M., Dias, L., Rocha, L., Oliveira, J., Barrulas, P., & Mirão, J. (2022). Lithic arrowheads: Siliceous raw material sources and technology in Southern Portugal. Geoarchaeology, 37, 560-573.
Milene Gil et al, 'On the Two Working Palettes of Almada Negreiros at DN Building in Lisbon (1939-1940): First Analytical Approach and Insight on the Use of Cd Based Pigments', Heritage 4(4)4578-4595, December 2021. DOI: 10.3390/heritage4040252
Gil, M.; Costa, M.; Cvetkovic, M.; Bottaini, C.; Cardoso, A.; Manhita, A.; Barrocas Dias, C.; Candeias, A. Unveiling the mural paintng art of Almada Negreiros at the Maritime Stations of Alcântara (Lisbon): diagnosis research of paint layers as a guide for its future conservation. Ge-conservación 2021, 20, 105-117

* For more publications, perform a search by author name on Digital Repository of Scientific Publications of UÉ.



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