Research interests

• History of Geology;
• History of scientific institutions;
• Science and Politics;
• History of Education.

Projects

• "The construction of geology in Portugal: between the liberal regime and the Estado Novo" (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/40065/2007), post-doc research project reformulated in 2011.

• "Science, technical training and the making of Portuguese Liberalism: the case of Escola Politécnica de Lisboa (1837-1911)", (FCT/MCTES, HC/0084/2009), 2010-2013.

Publications (selection)

1. Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, Teresa Salomé Mota, "From Sinner to Saint: Geology and Religion in Portugal", (forthcoming in Notes and Records of the Royal Society. Accepted for publication in April 2013).
2. Ana Simões, Ana Carneiro, Maria Paula Diogo, Luís Miguel Carolino, Teresa Salomé Mota, Uma História da Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa (1911-1974), com a colaboração de Ana Romão, Catarina Teixeira e Conceição Tavares, (Lisboa: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2013).
3. Teresa Salomé Mota, Ana Carneiro, "A time for engineers and a time for geologists: scientific lives and different pathways in the history of Portuguese geology", Earth Sciences History, Special Issue, 32 (2013), 23-38.
4. Teresa Salomé Mota, "From failure to achievement: the relationship between the Portuguese Geological Survey and the mining sector, in the 20th century" in José E. Ortiz, Octavio Puche, Isabel Rábano, Luis F. Mazadiego (eds.), History of Research in Mineral Resources, (Madrid: Publicaciones del Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, 2011), pp. 299-305.
5. Teresa Salomé Mota, "A bursting landscape in the middle of Portugal: theories and experiments by Georges Zbyszewski",Centaurus, 53:2 (2011), 146-163.
6. Maria Helena Henriques, Rui Pena dos Reis, José Brilha, Teresa Salomé Mota, "Geoconservation as an emerging geoscience",Geoheritage, Vol. 3, No 2(2011), 117-128.
7. Teresa Salomé Mota, “Os olhos da Geologia, o discurso dos engenheiros e o saber dos geólogos: o início da utilização de métodos geofísicos na prospecção de recursos minerais em Portugal”, Comunicações Geológicas, 96 (2009), 129-142.
8. Teresa Salomé Mota, “A mere shadow of an institution: the unhappy story of the Portuguese Geological Survey (PGS) in the period between the two World Wars”, Annals of Science, 1 (2007), volume 64, 19—40.
9. Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota, “The Geological Survey of Portugal (1857-1948), an Overview”, Earth Sciences History, Special Issue, Pietro Corsi (ed.), 28 (2007), 85-96.
10. Ana Carneiro, Teresa Salomé Mota, “Francisco Pereira de Sousa (1870-1931): um terramoto para uma vida” in Ana Cristina Araújo, José Luís Cardoso, Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro, Walter Rossa e José Vicente Serrão (org.), O Terramoto de 1755 — Impactos Históricos, (Lisboa: ICS/Livros Horizonte, 2007), pp. 131-143.

Scientific Societies and other institutions

• HESS (History of Earth Sciences Society): Member of the Nominating Committee for the period 2013-2015.