Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Delegation in Paris, France, since June 2025.

Teresa Castro is a historian of photography and cinema. She studied History and History of Art in Lisbon (FCSH / UNL) and London (Birkbeck College) and obtained her PhD in Film Studies from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, where she is now an Associate Professor with Habilitation. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

She is the author of numerous scholarly studies in the fields of visual culture, image and film theory, and ecocritical and environmental approaches to images, and she regularly contributes essays to books and artists’ catalogues. She has served as an elected board member of the Association française de recherche sur l’histoire du cinéma and of DOMITOR, The International Society for the Study of Early Cinema.

Alongside her academic work, she develops critical, curatorial, and cultural programming projects, having collaborated with institutions in several countries: Batalha Centro de Cinema, Porto; Bétonsalon, Paris; Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris; Centre Pompidou-Metz; Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema; Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris; In Between Art Film, Rome; Instituto Moreira Salles, São Paulo; Light Cone, Paris; musée départemental Albert-Kahn, Paris; musée du quai Branly, Paris; Villa Medici, Rome, among others. In this context, she was Associate Curator of the exhibition Vues d’en haut (Centre Pompidou-Metz, 2013) and Scientific Advisor for Natures vivantes (musée départemental Albert-Kahn, 2024). Among the film cycles and discussion series she has (co-)programmed are Prendre soin. Autour des films de Haneda Sumiko (Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2022), Les plantes font leur cinéma (musée départemental Albert-Kahn, Paris, 2024), La révolution des images. Révolution et décolonisation au Portugal (Cinémathèque Universitaire, Paris, 2024), and Semer le trouble. Traversées écocritiques du cinéma expérimental (Light Cone, Paris, 2025).