Ana Margarida Dias da Silva is a senior technician at the Archives of the Department of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra since April 2020. She holds a PhD in Information Science from the Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra. She has been an archivist since 2004 and has worked in different public and private archives in Coimbra. She is a researcher at the Center for History of Society and Culture and a collaborating member of CITCEM and the Center for Functional Ecology.