Rodrigo Araújo de Lima

Rodrigo Araújo de Lima is a dedicated researcher in Archaeology with a robust and diversified academic career, marked by a unique commitment to research activities and a constant search for new intellectual challenges. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UNESP (Franca), working on the project "Anchoring beliefs: votive protomes and religious practices in ancient Sardinia, from the Punic period to the Roman expansion" (FAPESP process 2024/07870-5), under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Margarida Maria de Carvalho. This project includes a planned research stay (BEPE) at the prestigious Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari in Sardinia, under the direction of Dr. Francesco Muscolino.His academic background demonstrates great versatility and commitment. He holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Centro Universitário das Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU) (2011) and in Geography from the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at the University of São Paulo (FFLCH-USP) (2020). He earned his Master's degree in Archaeology from the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at the University of São Paulo (MAE-USP) in 2018. His dissertation, titled "The Pillars of Heracles/Melqart at the end of the Bronze Age: the use of GIS in understanding the Phoenician expansion in Tartessian territory," was supervised by Prof. Dr. Maria Cristina Nicolau Kormikiari and funded by CAPES.Recently, he completed his doctorate in Archaeology at the same institution, in a joint program with the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Bristol and the Polytechnic School of USP. His thesis, funded by FAPESP (process 2018/08593-4), focused on the production of a three-dimensional interactive simulation of the establishment of a Roman colony in the Punic city of Carteia. The research was supervised by Prof. Dr. Cristina Kormikiari (MAE-USP) and Prof. Dr. Romero Tori (Poli-USP), and co-supervised by Professor Tamar Hodos (formerly of the University of Bristol and currently Professor and Director of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens at the University of Sydney). During his doctorate, he undertook a research period abroad in Bristol, United Kingdom, also funded by FAPESP (process 2020/11832-0).Rodrigo Araújo de Lima shows great engagement with academic life, being an associate researcher at the Laboratory of Studies on the Ancient City (LABECA), a laboratory of which he has been a member since 2013 and is based at MAE-USP, and also at the Archaeology Laboratory (Lab.Arq) at UNESP in Franca. His intellectual production is vast and includes articles in journals, book chapters, and papers presented at national and international conferences. Furthermore, he has experience as a peer reviewer and in organizing events, which highlights his willingness and contribution to the academic community. His pronouns are he/him. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)