Paulo Jorge de Sousa Pinto (https://doi.org/10.54499/DL57/2016/CP1453/CT0016) holds a MA on History of the Portuguese Expansion (1994) and a PhD. in Historical Sciences (2011). His post-doctoral project focused on “Conflict and Collaboration - Presences and Representations of the Overseas Chinese in the Ibero-Asian Societies (16th-19th centuries)” (2012-2017). He is currently a researcher at CHAM – Centro de Humanidades (Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa – NOVA FCSH). He is the coordinator of a set of collaborative projects involving several Filipino institutions, named “Portugal-Philippines: Connected Histories” aimed at promoting contacts and enhancing mutual knowledge between Portugal and the Philippines (https://portugalphilippines.fcsh.unl.pt/). His fields of work are the Early Modern Southeast Asia, European presence in Asia (16-18th centuries) and the Iberian overseas empires. He has published several books on these subjects, namely The Portuguese and the Straits of Melaka, 1575-1619: Power, Trade and Diplomacy (Singapore University Press, 2012), Tinan 500 Portugal-Timor (Dili, 2015) and The Islands Beyond the Empire - Portuguese Essays on Early Modern Philippine History (16th-18th Centuries) (org.) (Manila, Foreign Service Institute, 2023).