Cristina Luís

Auxiliary Researcher
Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, FCUL

Research Interests

  • Citizen science;
  • Promotion of scientific culture;
  • Science and Society;
  • History of horse domestication.

Projects

Coordination

 

  • “Researchers’ Night 2014/2015 – CITSCI - Citizen Science: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Society In Portugal”, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Horizon 2020 Programme 2014-2015.
  • "HDI - Horse Domestication in Iberia – What else is there to be known?", FCT, (PTDC/HIS-ARQ/120183/2010), 2012-2015.

Coordination (of the Portuguese team)

  • "more4nature - Empowering citizens in collaborative environmental compliance assurance via monitoring, reporting and action”. National and local pioneer cases: Reversing the decline of pollinators. Financed by: EU, Horizon Europe, GA: 101133983. Coordination: U. Wehn (IHE Delft).
  • “NEWSERA - Citizen Science as the new paradigm for Science Communication”. WP5 Leader: Evaluation and Impact Assessment: the legacy of NEWSERA. Financed by: H2020, SwafS-19-2018-2019. GA: 873125. Coordination: R. Arias (Science for Change).

Participation

  • “European Researchers’ Night 2022 – SCIEVER - Science for Everyone - Sustainability and Inclusion”. Financed by: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Horizon 2020 Programme. GA: 101061524. Coordination: R. Barata (MUHNAC-UL), 2022.
  • “Hi-BicLab - History Lab for Sustainable Urban Mobilities: Lisbon´s cycling policies”. Financed by: Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Coordination: M. Luísa Sousa (CIUHCT, FCUL), 2022-2023.
  • "E3GLOBAL - Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse. A global history of the 1919 solar eclipse". Financed by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Coordination: A. Simões (CIUHCT, FCUL), 2021-2024.
  • “ENJOI - Engagement and journalism innovation for outstanding open Science Communication”. Financed by: H2020, SwafS-19-2019-2020. GA: 101006407. Coordination: E. Tolla (formicablu), 2021-2023.
  • “European Researchers’ Night 2021 – SCICLI - Science for Climate”. Financed by: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Horizon 2020 Programme. GA: 101036063. Coordination: R. Barata (MUHNAC-UL), 2021.
  • “Researchers’ Night 2020 – SCINAT – Science and Nature”. Team responsible for WP4 Impact Assessment. Financed by: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Horizon 2020 Programme. Coordination: R. Barata (MUHNAC-UL), 2020.
  • CA COST Action CA15212 – “Citizen Science to promote creativity, scientific literacy, and innovation throughout Europe”. Financed by: COST/H2020. Coordination: Katrin Vohland (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin), 2016-2021
  • “NewHoRRIzon - Excellence in science and innovation for Europe by adopting the concept of Responsible Research and Innovation”. Participation in Social Lab 3 on RRI related to Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. Financed by: H2020, 2017-2021
  • “Researchers’ Night 2018/2019 – SCICITY – Science in the City life”. Financed by: Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Horizon 2020 Programme. Coordination: R. Barata (MUHNAC-UL), 2018-2019
  • “Mechanisms of reproductive allochrony in endemic Portuguese seabirds: implications for population divergence and response to climate change”. Ref. PTDC/BIA-EVL/28565/2017. Participation in the science outreach task.  Financed by Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Coordination: Mónica Silva (cE3c, FCUL), 2018-2021
  • "PEGASUS: The makeup of the modern horse: a history of the biological changes introduced by human management.", European Research Council, ERC / H2020. Coordenador: L. Orlando (Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen), 2016-2021.
  • “EDUMAR - EDUcar para o MAR”. FCT, Lisboa 2020, Portugal 2020, CE, Centro 2020, Ref. SAICT-POL/23480/2016. Coordenadora: Diana Boaventura (Escola Superior de Educação João de Deus), 2017-2018. 
  • “Researchers’ Night 2016/2017 – SCILIFE – Science in everyday life”. Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Horizon 2020 Programme. Coordenador: Conceição Casanova (MUHNAC, FLUL), 2016-2017.
  • "Riscar o Mundo: Desenhos científicos do antigo Império português nos fundos documentais do MUHNAC, Universidade de Lisboa (Séc. XVIII-XIX)”, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Coordenador: M.C. Lourenço (MUHNAC-UL/CIUHCT-FCUL), 2015-2016.

Publications (selection)

Books (editor/coordinator)

  1. Maria Paula Diogo, Cristina Luís, M. Luísa Sousa (eds.) (2021) Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina na Construção de Portugal, general coord. Ana Simões and Maria Paula Diogo, vol. IV, Lisbon: Tinta da China. 703pp. ISBN: 9978-989-671-599-1.
  2. Monteiro, A., C. Luís, D. Boaventura, A.T. Neves (Coord.) (2019). Educar para o mar. Guia do professor. Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-8928-18-4.
  3. Direito, B.; C. Luís; D. Gamito-Marques; F. Malta Romeiras; H. Pereira; I. Gomes; J.C.  Avelãs Nunes; R. Lobo, coord. ed. (2018) Perspectivas Cruzadas na Construção do Conhecimento: 6.º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia. CIUHCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Campus da Caparica (Almada), 9-11 Julho. ISBN 978-972-8893-64-4


Books Chapters

  1. Conceição, C.P., C. Luís (2021) “Da Ciência Viva à ciência cidadã”. In: Maria Paula Diogo, Cristina Luís, M. Luísa Sousa (eds.), Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina na Construção de Portugal, general coord. Ana Simões and Maria Paula Diogo, vol. IV, Lisbon: Tinta da China. pp. 561-591. ISBN: 9978-989-671-599-1
  2. Luís, C. (2021) Ciência Cidadã no Cruzamento entre as Ciências e as Humanidades. In: Catarina Pombo Nabais (org.) Processos Criativos nas Ciências e nas Artes. A questão da participação pública. Porto: Afrontamento. pp. 29-40. ISBN: 9978-989-671-599-1
  3. Matoso Silva, R.; Bower, M.; Detry, C.; Valenzuela, S.; Fernández-Rodríguez, C.; Davis, S.; Riquelme Cantal, J.A.; Álvarez Lao, D.; Arruda, A.M., Viegas, C. & C. Luís (2015) Tracing the History of the Horse in Iberia and North Africa Through Ancient DNA. In: C. Oliveira, R. Morais and A. Cerdan (Eds.). ArchaeoAnalytics. Chromatography and DNA analysis in archaeology. Município de Esposende, Esposende, Portugal. ISBN 978-989-99468-1-1.


Peer-reviewed Papers

  1. Massarani, L., Luís , C., Scalfi, G., & Pinto, A. V. (2023). Análise das interações e conversas familiares em visita à exposição “Água - Uma exposição sem filtro”. Educação, Sociedade & Culturas, (66), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.24840/esc.vi66.645

  2. Luís, C.; Scarso, D.; Tirapicos, L.; Gessner, S. (2023) Editorial: Reflections on HoST’s Last Triennium. HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology 17 (1): 1-3. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/host-2023-0001.

  3. Marín-González, E., Navalhas, I., Dijkstra, A.M., De Jong, A. and Luís, C. (2023) Science journalism in pandemic times: perspectives on the science-media relationship from COVID-19 researchers in Southern Europe. Front. Commun. 8:1231301. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2023.1231301

  4. Giardullo, P., Neresini, F., Marín-González, E., Luís, C., Magalhães, J. & Arias R. (2023) Citizen science and participatory science communication: an empirically informed discussion connecting research and theory. Journal of Science Communication, 22 (2): A01. http://dx.doi.org/10.22323/2.22020201.10.22323/2.220202012
  5. Luís, C. (2022) A Ciência Cidadã: Passado, Presente e Futuro do Envolvimento Público na Investigação Científica. Revista Lusófona De Estudos Culturais, 9 (2): 29–42. https://doi.org/10.21814/rlec.4051
  6. Luís, C., Navalhas, I., Marín-González, E., Magalhães, J., Arias, R., Giardullo, P. & Leguina, L. (2022) Keeping participants engaged in citizen science projects: the role of science communication strategies. PoS(CitSci2022)017. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.418.0017
  7. Luís, C. (2022). ‘‘SciComPt 2022’: stop, listen and act — reflect on the past to build the future’. JCOM 21 (06), R02. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.21060602.
  8. Magalhães, J., Guasch, B., Arias, R., Giardullo, P., Elorza, A., Navalhas, I., Marín-González, E., Mazzonetto, M. and Luís, C. (2022) A methodological approach to co-design citizen science communication strategies directed to quadruple-helix stakeholders. JCOM 21 (04), A05. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.21040205.
  9. Boaventura D, Neves AT, Santos J, Pereira PC, Luís C, Monteiro A, Cartaxana A, Hawkins SJ, Caldeira MF and Ponces de Carvalho A (2021) Promoting Ocean Literacy in Elementary School Students Through Investigation Activities and Citizen Science. Front. Mar. Sci. 8:675278. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2021.675278
  10. Funk, S.M., Guedaoura, S., Juras, R., Raziq, A., Landolsi, F., Luís, C., Martínez, A.M., Mayaki, A.M., Mujica, F., Oom, M.M., Ouragh,  L., Stranger, Y-M., Vega‐Pla, J.L. & Cothran, E.G. (2020) Major inconsistencies of inferred population genetic structure estimated in a large set of domestic horse breeds using microsatellites. Ecology and Evolution, 10(10), 4261-4279. DOI:10.1002/ece3.6195
  11. Fages A., K. Hanghøj, N. Khan, C. Gaunitz, A. Seguin-Orlando, M. Leonardi, ... C. Luís ... B. Clavel, S. Lepetz, M. Mashkour, A. Helgason, K. Stefánsson, E. Barrey, E. Willerslev, A.K. Outram, P. Librado, L. Orlando (2019) Tracking five millennia of horse management with extensive ancient genome time series. Cell 177 (6), 1419-1435. e31. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.03.049
  12. Cortés, O.; S. Dunner; L.T. Gama; A.M. Martínez; J.V. Delgado; C. Ginja; L.M. Jiménez; J. Jordana; C. Luís; M.M. Oom; D.P. Sponenberg; P. Zaragoza; Biohorse Consortium; J.L. Vega-Pla (2017) The legacy of Columbus in American horse populations assessed by microsatellite markers. Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics. J Anim Breed Genet. doi: 10.1111/jbg.12255.
  13. Pablo Gomez, M.; V. Landi; A. Martínez; M. Gómez Carpio; S. Nogales Baena; J. Delgado Bermejo; M.M. Oom; C. Luís; L. Ouragh; J.L. Vega-Pla (2017) Genetic diversity of the semi-feral Marismeño horse breed assessed with microsatellites. Italian Journal of Animal Science. 16:1, 14-21, doi: 10.1080/1828051X.2016.1241132
  14. Warmuth V.; A. Eriksson; M.A. Bower; J. Cañon; E.G. Cothran; O. Distl; M.L. Glowatzki-Mullis; H. Hunt; C. Luís; M.M. Oom; I.T. Yupanqui; T. Zabek & A. Manica (2011) European Domestic Horses Originated in Two Holocene Refugia. PLoS ONE 6(3): e18194. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018194.
  15. Luís, C.; C. Bastos-Silveira; E.G. Cothran & M.M. Oom (2006). Iberian origins of New World horse breeds. Journal of Heredity 97: 107-113.


Conference Proceedings

  1. Luis, C.*; Monteiro, A.J.*; Cartaxana, A.; Boaventura, D.; Neves, A.T.; Reis, P.C.P.; Santos, J.; Maranhao, P.; Caldeira, F.; Ponces de Carvalho, A. (2018). Can data collected in the Citizen Science project EduMar be used to monitor coastal marine biodiversity in Portugal?, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts – 53rd European Marine Biology Symposium. Oostende, Belgium, 17-21 September 2018. VLIZ Special Publication, 82: pp. 106. ISSN 1377-0950. (*These authors contributed equally to this work)
  2. Luis, C.; Conceição, C.P.; Monteiro, A.J.; Costa, A.F. & M. C. Lourenço (2018). A Ciência Cidadã em Portugal: No cruzamento entre diversas áreas do conhecimento, in: Direito, B.; C. Luís; D. Gamito-Marques; F. Malta Romeiras; H. Pereira; I. Gomes; J.C. Avelãs Nunes; R. Lobo (coord. ed) Perspectivas Cruzadas na Construção do Conhecimento: 6.º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia/ENHCT. Campus da Caparica (Almada), 9-11 July. CIUHCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. pp. 116-117. ISBN 978-972-8893-64-4
  3. Boaventura D., A.T. Neves, J. Santos, C. Luís, A. Monteiro, A. Cartaxana, P. Colares Pereira, M. F. Caldeira, A. Ponces Carvalho. Using citizen science platforms and mobile digital technologies in primary education on climate change: good for fun and good to learn? ICERI 2018 Proceedings, 5630-5636. IATED, Spain. ISBN 978-84-09-05948-5 / ISSN 2340-1095. doi: 10.21125/iceri.2018.2314


Other Publications

  1. Luís, C. (2017) Ciência Cidadã: Aprender através do envolvimento em atividades de investigação. Gazeta Valsassina, 64: 4-5.

Scientific Societies and other Institutions

  • Member of ESHS (European Society For The History of Science);
  • Associate member of CIES-IUL - Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia;
  • Member of ECSA (European Citizen Science Association) | Working group Citizen Science Networks; Working group Citizen Science at Universities and Research Organizations;
  • Member of CSA (Citizen Science Association);
  • Member of RICAP (Red Iberoamericana de Ciencia Participativa) | Managing group; Activities Mapping group;
  • Member of PCST network (Public Communication of Science and Technology);
  • Member of SciCom - Rede de Comunicação de Ciência e Tecnologia de Portugal;
  • Member of the board of Biodiversity4All - Associação Biodiversidade para Todos;
  • Member of the audit board of Tagis - Centro de Conservação das Borboletas de Portugal.
Fotografia de Cristina Luís
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