Carvalho, Sara

Sara Carvalho is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Languages and Cultures, University of Aveiro, where she teaches courses in the fields of terminology, specialised translation, English and German linguistics, and technical communication.

She holds a PhD in Linguistics, with a specialisation in Lexicology, Lexicography and Terminology, from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH). Her thesis, entitled “A terminological approach to knowledge organisation within the scope of endometriosis: the EndoTerm project”, was developed within the scope of a co-tutelle agreement between the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and the Communauté Université Grenoble Alpes. She holds an MA in German Studies – specialisation in German Linguistics – from the University of Aveiro (UA), and graduated in Modern Languages and Literature (English and German Studies) at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Coimbra.

She is a researcher at the Languages, Literatures and Cultures Research Centre of the University of Aveiro (CLLC-UA) (Full member) and at the Linguistics Research Centre of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (NOVA CLUNL) (Collaborator). In addition, she is a member of the ISO/TC 37 “Language and terminology” and of the Portuguese mirror committee “CT 221 – Terminologia, Língua e Linguagens” at IPQ. She also integrates the COST Action 18209 – European network for Web-centred linguistic data science, where she currently leads Working Group 4 (Use cases and applications).

Research areas:
terminology and ontologies, medical terminology, lexicography, language teaching for specific purposes, technical communication

More information available athttps://sarampcarvalho.github.io/

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