Joana Gaspar de Freitas is a researcher at the Center for History of the University of Lisbon. Between 2018 and 2024, she was the principal investigator of the ERC-funded project DUNES: Sea, Sand, and People, and she is a co-editor of the journal Coastal Studies and Society. Her teaching and research interests lie in the environmental history of coastal zones, with a focus on risks and vulnerability, extreme events, climate change adaptation, coastal management, and the ocean’s cultural heritage. Joana was a fellow at the Linda Hall Library in 2014 and a Carson Fellow in 2015.