Francisco Roque de Oliveira

Academic degree

• 2004-2007: Postdoctoral study in Geography, Centre of Overseas History, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
• 2003: PhD in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (summa cum laude)
• Thesis title: “A construção do conhecimento europeu sobre a China, c. 1500 – c. 1630. Impressos e manuscritos que revelaram o mundo chinês à Europa culta” [“The construction of the European knowledge about China, c. 1500 – c. 1630. Early modern printed and manuscript sources on the Chinese civilization”]
• Thesis committee: Víctor Navarro Brotóns (Chair), Luis Urteaga González, Maria Dolors Folch, Rui Manuel Loureiro, Enric Mendizàbal Riera
• Thesis supervisors: Horacio Capel Sáez (Dir.); Maria Dolors García Ramon (Co-Dir.)
• 1993: M.A. in Human Geography, Department of Geography, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain (summa cum laude)
• 1990: B.A. in Geography (Regional and Local Planning), Department of Geography, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon, Portugal (Good with distinction)