Postdoc researcher on the project "Colonial Provenances of Nature. The expansion of the mammal collection at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, around 1900" funded by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (German Lost Art Foundation), and hosted at the Humanities of Nature research center of the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung.

Co-Editor with Déborah Dubald of the special issue "Situated Nature: Field Collecting and Local Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century" published in the Journal for the History of Knowledge (2022).

Earlier research for my PhD "Taxonomy & Empire. Zoogeographical knowledge on Portuguese Africa, 1862-1881" (University of Lisbon, 2020), focused on the scientific and political uses of the zoological collections shipped from African territories which were studied in the Lisbon Zoological Museum of the Escola Politécnica de Lisboa, under the direction of naturalist and museum director José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823-1907); and on the study of Bocage's colonial thought, his correspondence and scientific networks.
Currently, I am working on provenance research methods specific to colonial natural history collections; the connections between epistemologies of nature and the history of environment, empire, and zoological collections; and the political meanings of scientific localities in zoological catalogues and online repositories. 

I have previous experience in museum education, exhibition design, and as a curator of historical collections. 
Member of the Collection < > Ecologies Collective;
Co-chair of the HSS Collections, Archives, Libraries, and Museums caucus.
Living in Berlin.
@cmadruga

Interview with Sarah Pickman, for the Order of Multitudes website
Talk with Michael Robinson for the Time to Eat the Dogs podcast