Ana Ferreira trabalha em estudos sociais de ciência e inovação no Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e é professora auxiliar convidada no Departamento de Sociologia da mesma Universidade. É Investigadora Principal de um Projecto da Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (PTDC / IVC-ESCT / 0073/2014) e Co-Investigadora Principal do Prémio de Investigação Colaborativa Santander Totta - Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2017/2018. É autora de diversos artigos em revistas científicas e capítulos de livros, incluindo o artigo “Profiles of malaria research in Portugal: organizing, doing and thinking in science under capitalism” publicado em 2018 na revista Science and Technology Studies. É membro da direcção da Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia e da Research Network Southern European Societies of the European Sociological Association.

Interesses de Investigação:

Biomedicina. Conhecimento. Ciência. Inovação. Interdisciplinaridade.

Principais Projectos:

Financed Research Projects

• Grant: Prémio de Investigação Colaborativa Santander Totta – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa 2017/2018
  Project: Stress-induced neuroinflammation: mechanisms and implications for decision-making and performance
  Date: 2018-2020
  Scientific Areas: Life Sciences; Social Sciences and Economic Sciences
  Co-Coordinator and Co-Principal Investigator: Ana Margarida Grenho Ferreira
  Partners: Raffaella Gozzelino (Principal Investigator; CEDOC, NOVA Medical School); Pedro Neves (NOVA SBE)
  Total Budget: 25.000€
  CICS.NOVA Budget: 12.500€
• Grant: Research Projects in all Scientific Domains – 2014, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
  Project: The social foundations of technological innovation processes: strategic decision-making under uncertainty
  Reference: PTDC/IVC-ESCT/0073/2014
  Date: 2016-2019
  Scientific Area: Social Studies of Science and Technology; Sociology
  Coordinator and Principal Investigator: Ana Margarida Grenho Ferreira
  Total Budget (Equivalent to CICS.NOVA Budget): 155.715€
• Grant: Research Projects in all Scientific Domains – 2006, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
  Project: Heme oxygenase-1 underlies the “protective trait” afforded by Sickle Cell Disease against Severe Acute Malaria
  Reference: PTDC/SAU-MII/71140/2006
  Date: 2007-2010
  Scientific Area: Health Sciences
  Coordinator and Principal Investigator: Ana Margarida Grenho Ferreira
  Institution: Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
  Total Budget: 159.904€

Financed Individual Grants

• Individual Research Contract: Research position financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) under the programme “Estímulo ao Emprego Científico”, Norma Transitória, DL 57/2016 and Lei 57/2017
  Project: From the bench to the bedside: producing biomedical knowledge in innovation-driven contexts
  Date: 2018 – 2024 (max)
  Institution: CICS.NOVA, NOVA FCSH
• Grant: Post-Doctoral Fellowship financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology of the Portuguese Ministry of Science (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia)
  Project:
  Reference: SFRH/BPD/77611/2011
  Date: 2012 – 2018
  Institution: CICS.NOVA, NOVA FCSH and NOVA Medical School

• Ferreira, A., & Teixeira, A. L. (2018). Profiles of malaria research in Portugal: Organizing, doing and thinking in science under capitalism. Science and Technology Studies, XX(X).
• Ferreira, A. (2018). Reasoning on emotions: Drawing an integrative approach. In M. Lisboa, & D. Cerejo (Eds.), In Complexity sciences: Theoretical and empirical approaches to social action (pp. 125-139). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Ferreira, A., & Teixeira, A. L. (2016). Intra and extra-organizational foundations of innovation processes: The information and communication technology sector under the crisis in Portugal. International Journal of Innovation Management, 20(5): 1650056_1-1650056_44. doi: 10.1142/S1363919616500560
• Ferreira, A. (2014). Reconnecting nature and culture: A model of social decision-making in innovation. International Journal of Interdisciplinary Organizational Studies, 8(3-4), 13-18. doi: 10.18848/2324-7649/CGP/v08i3-4/53398
• Ferreira, A., Marguti, I., Bechmann, I., Jeney, V., Chora, A., Palha, N. R., Rebelo, S., Henri, A., Beuzard, Y., & Soares, M. P. (2011). Sickle hemoglobin confers tolerance to plasmodium infection. Cell, 145(3), 398-409.