Affiliation: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Alexandre Monteiro is with the Instituto de Arqueologia e Paleocienias of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (the New University of Lisbon) in Portugal. His areas of specialization are maritime archaeology, post-mediaeval and modern ships and seafaring, Iberian shipbuilding, and underwater cultural heritage management and dissemination to the general public. He is currently working on several projects, including archival and historical shipwreck databases for the Sultanate of Oman and Mozambique, the Grândola coast), the Bom Jesus (Namibia), the Esperança (Turks and Caicos Islands), and the Correio d’Ázia (Ningaloo Reef, Australia). He is the AIA’s Archaeology of Portugal Lecturer for 2014/2015.