Verena Lindemann Lino holds a PhD in Culture Studies form Universidade Católica Portuguesa and Univeridty of Giessen (double degree). Since 2022 she is invited assistant professor at the  Faculty of Human Sciences at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. She is a researcher at the Research Centre for Communication and Culture where she is currently developing the projects Archives of (In)hospitality. She is a member of the editorial board of Diffractions – Graduate Journal for the Study of Culture. Her main research areas include transculturality, (trans)cultural memory, translation theory and comparative literature. She edited, among others, Negotiations of Migration (De Gruyter 2021) and is the author of Remembering World War II Refugees in Contemporary Portugal (De Gruyter 2021) as well as several articles on transcultural phenomena, memory and translation.