Sandra Ataíde Lobo is doctorate in History and Theory of Ideas, specialty Thought, Culture and Politics, by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) of NOVA University of Lisbon. Researcher of CHAM- Centro de Humanidades, FCSH/NOVA-UAC. Post-doctoral researcher of CHAM, awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Doctoral thesis, O desassossego goês: cultura e política em Goa do liberalismo ao Acto Colonial. Post-doctoral project, The Home and the World: the Goan intellectual diaspora. Current project: The Home and the World: the Goan intellectual elite and the colonial periodical press.

Studies, since 2005, the Goan intellectual elites and their contribution to the construction of Goan cultural and political modernity framed by the Portuguese and British Empire, and by international and Indian anticolonial movements. In this context contributes to the theorization of colonial periodical press, and studies in particular the rich archive of Goan periodicals about which has a vast and specialized vision. Has published several papers and chapters about the theme. Lately, her activity is moved by the interest in the theorization and practice of a cosmopolitan historiography, strongly linked to the idea of Academy as an international democratic community committed to the reduction of inequalities, namely academic and patrimonial, and to a dialogic approach of conflictual memories about common pasts.

Training and professional experience in the libraries and archives (Portugal, India, 1988-2005). Has a vast experience of teamwork since 1994, as member of the Free Seminary of History of Ideas (SLHI), participating among other projects with those related with 20th Century magazines of Portuguese intellectual movements. Experience in contributing to the conception of research projects funded by Portuguese (FCT) and foreign agencies (FAPESP). Member of the team of the project Magazines of Ideas and Culture (SLHI). Collaborates in the launching of the lines dedicated to the periodical press in the projects Thinking Goa (USP, Brazil) and Portuguese Orientalism (CEC-FLUL). Co-founder of the International Group for Studies of Colonial periodical press of the Portuguese empire (IGSCP-IP) - https://giepcip.wordpress.com/.