CRIA

Steffi Vassallo

Academic Degree

Master's

Group

Practices and Politics of Culture

About

Research Context

Portugal

Research Interests

Biological anthropology | trauma | pathology

Institutional Subunit

NOVA FCSH

Biographical Note

I am a Biological Anthropology PhD student under the BeFRAIL project at the Laboratory of Biological Anthropology and Human Osteology (LABOH), CRIA - NOVA FCSH. I am a Biological and Forensic Anthropologist with a BSc (Hons) in Anthropology, an MSc in Anatomy and Advanced Forensic Anthropology and a Diploma in Forensic Medical Sciences (DipFMS). My doctoral studies focus on palaeopathology, 3D modelling and emotions.

Status

PhD student (2023-08-01)

All projects

Data updated on 17-08-2025, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

2023/08/01-

O Porto in Times of Cholera and War: A Bioarchaeological Approach to Human Fragility (BeFRAIL)

2022.02398.PTDC

PhD Student Fellow

Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia

Financiers: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

All Publications

Data updated on 17-08-2025 , from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE .

Conference abstract

Through the 3D lens of ancient diseases and trauma: emotional and ethical reflections / Doença e trauma a três dimensões: reflexões sobre emoção e ética.

Vassallo, Steffi; Moreira, Carlos; Quaresma, C.; Alves de Matos, Patrícia; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025.

Conference poster

Posters 1-8: Through the 3D lens of ancient diseases and trauma: emotional and ethical reflections / Doença e trauma a três dimensões: reflexões sobre emoção e ética

Vassallo, Steffi; Moreira, Carlos; Quaresma, C.; Alves de Matos, Patrícia; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, IX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA). 07-2025.

Conference abstract

Desenterrar o passado na Ordem do Carmo: A perspetiva da genética populacional.

Gomes, C.; Malcherek, Anne; López-Matayoshi, César; Palomo-Díez, S.; Vassallo, Steffi; Rodrigues, Z.; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025.

Conference abstract

Materialities of Human Frailty in the Past: Interconnecting Archaeological Contexts, Human Remains and Archival Data. Abstract.

Alves-Cardoso, Francisca; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Esteves, A; Santos, P. M.; Vassallo, Steffi; Malcherek, A.; Rodrigues, Z.; Maia, R., 2025.

Report

Bioanthropological analysis report of the human remains identified as UE 6108: Carmo burial site. LABOH - Laboratory of Biological Anthropology and Human Osteology, CRIA. Lisbon

Vassallo, Steffi; Sandra Assis; Santana, A; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, LABOH - LAboratório de Antropologia Biológica e Osteologia Humana (CRIA) . 2025.

Conference paper

Materialities of Human Frailty in the Past: Interconnecting Archaeological Contexts, Human Remains and Archival Data.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16753604

Alves-Cardoso, Francisca; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Esteves, Alexandra; Santos, Paula Mota; Vassallo, Steffi; Malcherek, Anne; Rodrigues, Zélia; Maia, Rui, Porto, Portugal. 21-07-2025. Published

Conference paper

Materialities of Human Frailty in the Past: Interconnecting Archaeological Contexts, Human Remains and Archival Data

Alves-Cardoso, Francisca; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Esteves, Alexandra; Santos, Paula Mota; Vassallo, Steffi; Malcherek, Anne; Rodrigues, Zélia; Maia, Rui, Porto, Portugal. 21-07-2025. Published

Conference poster

Posters 1-8: Through the 3D lens of ancient diseases and trauma: emotional and ethical reflections workshop / Doença e trauma a três dimensões: reflexões sobre emoção e ética oficina

Vassallo, Steffi; Moreira, Carlos Eduardo; Quaresma, Claudia; Alves de Matos, Patrícia; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 9th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association. 07-2025.

Report

Bioanthropological analysis report of the human remains identified as UE 6108: Carmo burial site

Vassallo, Steffi; Assis, Sandra; Santana, Ana; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025.

Conference poster

Exploring a calcified tissue from the 19th century Carmo burial site (Porto, Portugal): differential diagnosis using nano-CT imaging.

Malcherek, Anne; Vassallo, Steffi; Assis, Sandra; Rodrigues, Zélia; Manuel F. C. Pereira; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 24th European Meeting of Paleopathology Association. 24-08-2024.

Conference poster

One in a thousand: A challenging palaeopathological diagnosis of a lumbar vertebra found amongst commingled remains from Carmo (Porto, Portugal).

Rodrigues, Zélia; Assis, Sandra; Vassallo, Steffi; Malcherek, Anne; Moreira, Carlos; Manuel F. C. Pereira; Fonseca Vítor; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 24th European Meeting of Paleopathology Association. 24-08-2024.

Conference poster

Surviving but not thriving: palaeopathological insights from a 19th century adult individual from the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo burial site (Porto, Portugal).

Vassallo, Steffi; Assis, Sandra; Moreira, Carlos; Vieira, Noelma; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 24th European Meeting of Paleopathology Association. 24-08-2024.

Conference poster

In the Lab: The Use of Photogrammetry as a Means of Digital Reconstruction and Preservation of Fragmented Human Remains.

Moreira, Carlos; Malcherek, Anne; Vassallo, Steffi; Valeria Florea; Casimiro, Sílvia; Sara Gaspar; Nuno Neto; et al, Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal. . 18-06-2024.

Conference poster

From the Field: The Use of Photogrammetry to Explore Complex Burials in Archaeological Contexts.

Luis Reis; Valeria Florea; Casimiro, Sílvia; Sara Gaspar; Nuno Neto; Moreira, Carlos; Vassallo, Steffi; et al, Workflows: Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal. . 18-06-2024.

Conference poster

DIGITAL APPROACHES TO THE RECONSTITUTION AND CURATION OF HUMAN REMAINS: A CASE STUDY

MOREIRA, CARLOS; Anne Malcherek; Vassallo, Steffi; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 4º Encontro Nacional de Investigadores do IN2PAST | 4th National Meeting of IN2PAST Researchers. 01-02-2024.

Conference poster

From the Field: The Use of Photogrammetry to Explore Complex Burials in Archaeological Contexts.

Luis Reis; Valeria Florea; Silvia Casimiro; Sara Gaspar; Nuno Neto; Carlos Moreira; Steffi Vassallo; et al, DARIAH Annual Event 2024 . 17-06-2024.

Conference poster

Digital Approaches to the Reconstruction and Curation of Human Remains: A Case Study.

Moreira, Carlos; Malcherek, Anne; Vassallo, Steffi; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 4º ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGADORES DO IN2PAST. 01-02-2024.

Conference poster

The unearthed smile: examining an 18th/19th century fixed dental bridge from the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo burial site (Porto, Portugal).

Vassallo, Steffi; Esteves, Alexandra; Assis, Sandra; Rodrigues, Zélia; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Malcherek, Anne; Manuel F. C. Pereira; Pal Chowdhury, Manasij; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, The 25th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. 08-09-2024.

Conference poster

In the Lab: The Use of Photogrammetry as a Means of Digital Reconstruction and Preservation of Fragmented Human Remains.

Carlos Moreira; Anne Malcherek; Steffi Vassallo; Valeria Florea; Silvia Casimiro; Sara Gaspar; Nuno Neto; et al, DARIAH Annual Event 2024 . 17-06-2024.

Conference poster

In the Lab: The Use of Photogrammetry as a Means of Digital Reconstruction and Preservation of Fragmented Human Remains.

Conference poster

One in a Thousand: A challenging palaeopathological diagnosis of a lumbar vertebra found amongst commingled remains from Carmo (Porto, Portugal)

Rodrigues, Zélia; Assis, Sandra; Vassallo, Steffi; Malcherek, Anne; Moreira, Carlos; Pereira, Manuel F. C.; FONSECA, VÍTOR; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 24th European Meeting of Paleopathology Association. 24-08-2024.

Manual

Instructions manual for creating 3D models in Agisoft Metashape: Professional Edition

Vassallo, Steffi, 2024. Published

Conference poster

One in a thousand: A challenging palaeopathological diagnosis of a lumbar vertebra found amongst commingled remains from Carmo (Porto, Portugal)

Rodrigues, Zélia; Assis, Sandra; Vassallo, Steffi; Malcherek, Anne; Pereira, MFC; Fonseca, V; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 24th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association (PPA). 21-08-2024.

Conference poster

Exploring a Calcified Tissue from the 19th century Carmo Burial Site (Porto, Portugal): Differential Diagnosis Using Nano-CT Imaging.

Malcherek, Anne; Vassallo, Steffi; Assis, Sandra; Rodrigues, Zélia; Pereira, M. F. C; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 24th European Meeting of Paleopathology Association,. 2024.

Conference poster

The unearthed smile: examining an 18th/19th century fixed dental bridge from the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo burial site (Porto, Portugal)

Vassallo, Steffi; Alexandra Esteves; Assis, Sandra; Rodrigues, Zélia; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Malcherek, Anne; Pereira, M. F. C.; Pal Chowdhury, M; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 25th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology. 2024.

Conference poster

Surviving but not thriving: palaeopathological insights from a 19th century adult individual from the 3rd Order of Our Lady of Carmo burial site (Porto, Portugal)

Vassallo, Steffi; Assis, Sandra; Moreira, Carlos; Vieira, N; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 24th European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association (PPA2024), Kamerlingh Onnes Gebouw, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands. 08-2024.

Conference poster

From the Field: The Use of Photogrammetry to Explore Complex Burials in Archaeological Contexts

Reis, Luis; Florea, Valeria; Casimiro, Silvia; Gaspar, Sara; Neto, Nuno; Moreira, Carlos; Vassallo, Steffi ; et al, Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities, Lisbon, Portugal., 2024. 06-2024.

Conference poster

In the Lab: The Use of Photogrammetry as a Means of Digital Reconstruction and Preservation of Fragmented Human Remains

Moreira, Carlos; Malcherek, Anne; Vassallo, Steffi ; Florea, Valeria; Casimiro, Silvia; Gaspar, Sara; Neto, Nuno; et al, Digital Methods for Reproducible Research Practices in the Arts and Humanities. 06-2024.

Conference poster

From the Field: The Use of Photogrammetry to Explore Complex Burials in Archaeological Contexts.

Conference poster

Estimation of sex from metric measurements of the human scapulae from a modern Italian population.

Vassallo, Steffi; Catriona Davies; Lucie Biehler-Gomez, British Association for Human Identification Winter Conference. 23-11-2019.

Conference paper

From the field to the lab: Archaeological and bioanthropological applications of digital technology.

Alves-Cardoso, Francisca; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Malcherek, Anne; Moreira, Carlos; Vassallo, Steffi, Lisbon, Portugal. 18-06-2024. Published

Conference paper

From the field to the lab: Archaeological and bioanthropological applications of digital technology.

Alves-Cardoso, Francisca; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Malcherek, Anne; Moreira, Carlos; Vassallo, Steffi, Lisboa, Portugal. 18-06-2024. Published

Conference paper

From the field to the lab: Archaeological and bioanthropological applications of digital technology.

Alves-Cardoso, Francisca; Marquez-Grant, Nicholas; Malcherek, Anne; Moreira, Carlos; Vassallo, Steffi, Lisboa, Portugal. 18-06-2024. Published

Conference paper

The Epidemiology of Longevity and Behaviour - Evidence from the skeleton and its value in Human Identification.

La Valley, Anna; McNern, Laura; Vassallo, Steffi; Kyriakou, Xenia Paula , Cleveland, United States. 28-03-2019. Published

Other research outputs

Data updated on 10-08-2025, from platform CIÊNCIAVITAE.

Other output

CT video of the cranium belonging to UE 6108: Carmo burial site. LABOH - Laboratory of Biological Anthropology and Human Osteology, CRIA. Lisbon. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15299296

Santana, A., Vassallo, Steffi, Assis, Sandra, Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025

Other output

Micro-CT video of a fixed bone dental bridge recovered from the Carmo burial site

Manuel Francisco C. PereiraVassallo, Steffi, Esteves, Alexandra, Assis, Sandra, Rodrigues, Zélia, Marquez-Grant, Nicholas, Malcherek, Anne, Pal Chowdhury, Manasij, Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025

Other output

BeFRAIL Webinar Series 2025 promotional material. 2025. Moreira, Carlos Eduardo; Malcherek, Anne; Vassallo, Steffi; Rodrigues, Zélia; Alves-Cardoso, Francisca. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15256256

Moreira, Carlos Eduardo, Malcherek, Anne, Vassallo, Steffi, Rodrigues, Zélia, Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025

Other output

BeFRAIL Webinar Series 2025 promotional material

Moreira, Carlos Eduardo, Malcherek, Anne, Vassallo, Steffi, Rodrigues, Zélia, Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025

Other output

Micro-CT video of a fixed bone dental bridge recovered from the Carmo burial site

Manuel Francisco C. PereiraVassallo, Steffi, Esteves, Alexandra, Assis, Sandra, Rodrigues, Zélia, Marquez-Grant, Nicholas, Malcherek, Anne, Pal Chowdhury, Manasij, Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025

Other output

CT video of the cranium belonging to UE 6108: Carmo burial site

Santana, Ana, Vassallo, Steffi, Assis, Sandra, Alves-Cardoso, Francisca, 2025