Francisco Malta Romeiras

@ciencias.ulisboa.pt

Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Science and Technology
Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa



           

https://researchid.co/fmromeiras

I am a Research Fellow at the Department for History and Philosophy of Science (DHFC) and the Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT), at the University of Lisbon. My research interests include early modern science, science and religion, science and education, Jesuit science, and book history. I have published widely on the history of science and my articles and book reviews have appeared in publications such as Isis, Renaissance Quarterly, Early Science and Medicine, Annals of Science, History of Science, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesus, and the Journal of Jesuit Studies. In the past years, I held visiting positions at the Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies (IAJS), Boston College (2017) and at the Oxford Centre for European History and Exeter College, University of Oxford (2019). I was recently elected to the Young Academy of Lisbon at the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, the most prestigious learned society in Portugal for a three-year term (2024–2026).

EDUCATION

Ph.D. History and Philosophy of Science. University of Lisbon, 2014
MSc. Biochemistry. University of Lisbon, 2009.
BSc. Biochemistry. University of Lisbon, 2007.

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

History and Philosophy of Science, History

172

Scholar Citations

6

Scholar h-index

4

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Physiognomy, Complexion, and Ingenuity: the Management of Talent in the Society of Jesus, 1540–1773
    FM Romeiras, LC Ribeiro, E Frei
    Early Science and Medicine 30 (1), 59-104 2025

  • The Portuguese Indipetae and the Recruitment of Jesuit Missionaries for the Indies in the Portuguese Assistancy, 1540–1759
    FM Romeiras
    Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 186, 219-266 2024

  • Defining Nature’s Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science, by Neil Tarrant
    FM Romeiras
    The English Historical Review 139 (598-599), 891-893 2024

  • Jesuit Astrology: Prognostication and Science in Early Modern Culture, written by Lus Campos Ribeiro
    FM Romeiras
    Journal of Jesuit Studies 11 (2), 344-346 2024

  • Forbidden Books and Royal Horoscopes: the Practice and Censorship of Astrology in Early Modern Portugal
    LC Ribeiro, FM Romeiras
    Early Science and Medicine 29 (1), 52-88 2024

  • Singularidades de um feiticeiro dissimulado: o fingimento e os sortilegia de Francisco Barbosa (1608–1610)
    FM Romeiras
    Lusitania Sacra, 31-57 2024

  • Res Sinicae: Pessoas, papis e intercmbios culturais entre a Europa ea China (1600–1800), edited by Arnaldo do Esprito Santo, Cristina Costa Gomes, and Enrique Rodrigues-Moura
    FM Romeiras
    Journal of Jesuit Studies 10 (4), 711-714 2023

  • Companhia de Jesus: O breve regresso no reinado de D. Miguel, by Francisca Branco Veiga
    FM Romeiras
    Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 184, 611–615 2023

  • Researching the Modern Jesuit Library: A Case Study from Portugal’s Campolide Library
    FM Romeiras
    Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 91 (182), 495-540 2022

  • Visto de Coimbra: O Colgio de Jesus entre Portugal e o Mundo
    FM Romeiras
    Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu 91 (181), 365-368 2022

  • A Biblioteca Erudita de Campolide: A histria de uma biblioteca jesuta dispersa pela Repblica
    FM Romeiras
    Cascais: Lucerna 2022

  • Maximilianus Sandus, un jsuite entre mystique et symbolique: tudes suivies de l’dition par Mariel Mazzocco des annotations d'Angelus Silesius la “Pro Theologia Mystica
    FM Romeiras
    Renaissance Quarterly 74 (4), 1368-1369 2021

  • Jesuit Science in America: The Bulletin of the American Association of Jesuit Scientists (1922–66)
    FM Romeiras
    Engaging Sources: The Tradition and Future of Collecting History in the 2021

  • Fernando Bouza, Pedro Cardim, and Antonio Feros, eds., The Iberian World, 1450–1820
    FM Romeiras
    Journal of Jesuit Studies 8 (1), 137-140 2020

  • Natacha Fabbri; Federica Favino (Editors). Copernicus Banned: The Entangled Matter of the Anti-Copernican Decree of 1616 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2018)
    FM Romeiras
    Isis 111 (1), 172-173 2020

  • Brotria and the Popularization of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Portugal, 1907–24
    FM Romeiras
    journal of jesuit studies 7 (2), 221-243 2020

  • The Inquisition and the censorship of science in early modern Europe: Introduction
    FM Romeiras
    Annals of Science 77 (1), 1-9 2020

  • Putting the Indices into practice: censoring science in early modern Portugal
    F Malta Romeiras
    Annals of Science 77 (1), 71-95 2020

  • O Abismo de Fogo. O Grande Terramoto de Lisboa ou Apocalipse na Idade da Cincia e da Razo
    FM Romeiras
    Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu 89 (178), 633-637 2020

  • Os jesutas e a cincia em Portugal, 1858–1910
    FM Romeiras
    Os jesutas e as cincias no Brasil e em Portugal: Quando a histria se (re 2020

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Contribution of casein kinase 2 and spleen tyrosine kinase to CFTR trafficking and protein kinase A-induced activity
    S Luz, P Kongsuphol, AI Mendes, F Romeiras, M Sousa, R Schreiber, ...
    Molecular and cellular biology 31 (22), 4392-4404 2011
    Citations: 59

  • Cincia, prestgio e devoo: os jesutas e a cincia em Portugal (sculos XIX e XX)
    FM Romeiras
    Cascais: Lucerna 2015
    Citations: 12

  • Jesuits and the Book of Nature: Science and Education in Modern Portugal
    FM Romeiras
    Brill 2019
    Citations: 10

  • The Role of Science in the History of Portuguese anti-Jesuitism
    H Leito, FM Romeiras
    Journal of Jesuit Studies 2 (1), 77-99 2015
    Citations: 10

  • The Inquisition and the censorship of science in early modern Europe: Introduction
    FM Romeiras
    Annals of Science 77 (1), 1-9 2020
    Citations: 7

  • Metformin treatment of diabetes mellitus increases the risk for pancreatitis in patients bearing the CFTR-mutation S573C
    P Kongsuphol, D Cassidy, F Romeiras, R Schreiber, A Mehta, ...
    Cellular Physiology and Biochemistry 25 (4-5), 389-396 2010
    Citations: 7

  • The emergence of molecular genetics in Portugal: the enterprise of Lus Archer SJ
    FM Romeiras
    Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 82 (164), 501-512 2013
    Citations: 6

  • Jesutas e Cincia em Portugal. I: Antnio Oliveira Pinto S.J. e as primeiras experincias com radioactividade em Portugal
    FM Romeiras, H Leito
    Brotria: Cristianismo e cultura 174, 9-20 2012
    Citations: 6

  • The Journal Brotria (1902-2002): Jesuit Science in the 20th Century
    FM Romeiras
    Journal of History of Science and Technology 6, 100-109 2012
    Citations: 6

  • Jesuitas e Cincia em Portugal. II: Carlos Zimmermann SJ e o ensino da Microscopia Vegetal
    FM Romeiras, H Leito
    Brotria: Cristianismo e cultura 174 (2), 113-126 2012
    Citations: 6

  • For the greater credibility: Jesuit science and education in modern Portugal (1858–1910)
    F Malta Romeiras
    History of Science 56 (1), 97-119 2018
    Citations: 5

  • Jesuit historiography in modern Portugal
    FM Romeiras
    Jesuit Historiography Online, doi: 10.1163/2468-7723_jho_COM_192570 2016
    Citations: 5

  • Jesutas em Portugal depois de Pombal: Histria ilustrada
    FM Romeiras
    Cascais: Lucerna 2018
    Citations: 4

  • Das cincias naturais gentica: a divulgao cientfica na revista Brotria (1902-2002) e o ensino cientfico da companhia de Jesus nos sculos XIX e XX em Portugal
    FMSMM Romeiras
    Universidade de Lisboa 2014
    Citations: 4

  • A cincia da Companhia de Jesus nos sculos XIX e XX em Portugal
    FM Romeiras
    Brotria: Cristianismo e cultura 179 (5), 429-454 2014
    Citations: 4

  • A Biblioteca Erudita de Campolide: A histria de uma biblioteca jesuta dispersa pela Repblica
    FM Romeiras
    Cascais: Lucerna 2022
    Citations: 3

  • Antnio Ferreira da Silva and the Teaching of Chemistry at the Academia Politcnica do Porto (1877–1910)
    J Ferraz-Caetano, J Paiva, FM Romeiras
    Histria da Cincia e Ensino: construindo interfaces 20, 213-221 2019
    Citations: 3

  • Jesuitas e Cincia em Portugal. IV: A revista Brotria-Sciencias Naturaes e a sua recepo nacional e internacional
    FM Romeiras, H Leito
    Brotria: Cristianismo e cultura 174 (4), 323-334 2012
    Citations: 3

  • O regresso dos jesutas portugueses ao Brasil
    FM Romeiras
    Os jesutas no Brasil: Entre a colnia e a repblica, 11-14 2016
    Citations: 2

  • A constituio e o percurso das coleces cientficas dos jesutas exilados pela 1 Repblica: o caso de Carlos Zimmermann SJ (1871-1950)
    FM Romeiras
    Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu 84 (168), 287-327 2015
    Citations: 2