Pedro Pombo is a Marie Curie European Research Officer at the Islands and Small States Institute since February 2023 with the project ECO-HERITAGES - Heritage ecologies: culture, resilience and development in island states, With Dr Stefano Moncada.

He received his PhD in Anthropology from ISCTE- IUL, Lisbon (2015) with an ethnographic exploration on space, belonging and local history in Southern Mozambique.
Pedro has conducted archival and ethnographic research in the Western Indian Ocean region, mainly Mozambique, India, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, Reunion Island and Tanzania (Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar).
After graduating in Decorative Arts and Interior Design at ESAD/FRESS, Lisbon (1998), Pedro carried out research on Indo-Portuguese architecture and Hindu temples in Goa, India. He was assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and Goa University, India, from 2015 to 2021, while researching traces of Afro-Asian circulations through aesthetic and anthropological approaches, focusing on archival and material traces, heritages, landscapes and memories in the Indian Ocean. Pedro was also awarded a Sahapedia-UNESCO grant for a study of Wooden Hindu temples in the Indian state of Goa in 2020.
He was an Associated Researcher at the Centre for Research on Slavery and Indenture of the University of Mauritius, from 2021 to 2022, while researching on the links between Macao, Goa and the Mascarenes (Mauritius and Reunion Island), through archival research on Chinese migration to the Indian Ocean and an ethnography of the Sino-Mauritian and Sino-Reunionese cultural landscapes.
He is co-author of the documentary “The Club”, on the Goan diaspora in Tanzania, with Nalini Elvino de Sousa, funded by the RTP-Portuguese Television (2021).
He was a fellow and received research grants from the IIAS-ACL, Leiden (2018), The Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence, Bayreuth University, Germany (2021) and the Cultural Institute of Macau (2021).
He is associated researcher with the project Regions2050, WiSER, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa and he is associated research with SARCHI Chair on Ocean Cultures and Heritage, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa.