Degree in Geography from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (1981), PhD in Human Geography (1996), and Habilitation in Geography (2007) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto. Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto (1982-2024). Visiting Professor at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest (2000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Researcher at the Centre for Geographical Studies, University of Lisbon (1980-2012), the North Portugal \u2013 Aquitaine Studies Centre (1984-2000), and the Inter-University Centre for the History of Science and Technology (2013-2017). External researcher at the Instituto de Historiograf\u00eda Julio Caro Baroja, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2014-2019). Collaborator at the Centre for the Study of History and Ancient Cartography, Institute for Tropical Scientific Research (2000-2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Full Member of the Lisbon Geographical Society (since 1989), Full Member (2008-2016) and Honorary Member (2016-present) of the Commission on the History of Geography<\/em> of the International Geographical Union, and Full member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (since 2022). He is also an Honorary Member of the Societat Catalana de Geografia (2009).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supervised or co-supervised 10 PhD theses and 50 Master’s dissertations. As a coordinator, researcher, or consultant, he participated in 25 national and international research projects. He coordinated or contributed to the organisation of 40 exhibitions on Ancient Cartography and the History of Geography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Main Publications: O Espa\u00e7o Medieval da Reconquista no Sudoeste da Pen\u00ednsula Ib\u00e9rica<\/em> (Lisbon, 1986); A Navega\u00e7\u00e3o no Baixo Guadiana durante o Ciclo do Min\u00e9rio (1857-1917)<\/em> (Porto, 1996); A Nova Lusit\u00e2nia: Imagens Cartogr\u00e1ficas do Brasil nas Cole\u00e7\u00f5es da Biblioteca Nacional (1700-1822)<\/em>, coordinator (Lisbon, 2001); A Mais Dilatada Vista do Mundo: Invent\u00e1rio da Cole\u00e7\u00e3o Cartogr\u00e1fica da Casa da \u00cdnsua<\/em>, coordinator (Lisbon, 2002); \u00c1lbum Cartogr\u00e1fico de Cabo Verde: Comiss\u00e3o de Cartografia (1883-1936)<\/em>, with M.E. Madeira Santos (Praia-Lisbon, 2010); Hist\u00f3ria da Cartografia Portuguesa: S\u00e9culos XV-XVII<\/em>, with M.F. Alegria, S. Daveau, and F. Rela\u00f1o (Porto, 2012); Universal Atlas of Fern\u00e3o Vaz Dourado (1571)<\/em>, coordinator (Barcelona, 2013).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Degree in Geography from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Lisbon (1981), PhD in Human Geography (1996), and Habilitation in Geography (2007) from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto. Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Porto (1982-2024). Visiting Professor at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s Lor\u00e1nd University, Budapest (2000). Researcher […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":22447,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"date":["2022-05-03"],"email":"jgarcia@letras.up.pt","show_email":true,"interest":"Geografia hist\u00f3rica; Evolu\u00e7\u00e3o do Pensamento Geogr\u00e1fico; Hist\u00f3ria da Cartografia","interest_en":"","hyperlink":"","footnotes":""},"ac_class":[118],"ac_bond":[120],"ac_section":[151],"class_list":["post-20735","ac_scholars","type-ac_scholars","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ac_class-classe-de-letras","ac_bond-efetivos","ac_section-8-a-seccao-geografia-e-ordenamento-do-territorio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/20735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ac_scholars"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/20735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23491,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_scholars\/20735\/revisions\/23491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ac_class","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_class?post=20735"},{"taxonomy":"ac_bond","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_bond?post=20735"},{"taxonomy":"ac_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ac_section?post=20735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}