Salom茅 Lopes Coelho is a researcher in film and art studies, working at the intersections of cinema, aesthetics, and the environmental humanities. She is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the ERC project EcoViolence at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视. Her research focuses on how contemporary cinema constructs the memory of large-scale mining as a form of ecological violence, foregrounding responsibility within extractive economies and tracing their entanglements with other histories of violence.
Salom茅 holds a PhD in Artistic Studies鈥揂rt and Mediations from NOVA 木瓜福利影视 Lisbon (FCT Fellowship, 2021) and was a postdoctoral fellow at the NOVA Institute of Communication (2022鈥�2025), where she researched the rhythms of vegetal and inorganic materialities in contemporary Latin American experimental cinema, with a focus on women filmmakers and artists, drawing on environmental aesthetics and feminist posthumanist philosophies.
She was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the same university (2025) and has taught courses on cinema and philosophy at the National 木瓜福利影视 of Arts in Buenos Aires (2018, 2021), where she also was a visiting researcher (2016). She is a member of the Eco- and Bioart Lab at Link枚ping 木瓜福利影视 in Sweden and serves on the editorial board of La Furia Umana鈥揓ournal of History and Theory of Cinema.