Paulo Granjo is PhD in Social Anthropology (ISCTE, 2001), granted with Sedas Nunes Prize for his book «We work on a gunpowder barrel», Man and danger at Sines refinery (2007) and pioneer of industrial anthropology in Portugal and Mozambique.

In both countries, he also studied a wide range of thematic fields (the divination and healing, the witchcraft, the family practices and bridewealth, the lynchings and violent protests, the social reintegration of veterans, the discrimination of twins and albinos, the climate change or the labour precariousness), focusing the researches on his two key theoretical interests: the social conceptions and answers to threats and risks, from his concept of “systems of uncertainty domestication”; and the integration of their complexity in the analysis of social phenomena, inspired in the “chaos theories”.

Several of his 11 books and more than 50 papers, resulting from such studies, are teaching references in universities from Portugal, Mozambique, Brazil, USA, Netherlands and Angola.

He began to teach in 1999, while Visiting Professor at Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM), where he contributed until 2006 to train the current generation of Mozambican anthropologists. Besides his lasting participation to ICS-ULisboa PhD and Master programs, he was also Invited Professor at ULHT, at FL-ULisboa and at FCSH-Nova.

Member of the ULisboa General Council, as well as member of the ICS-ULisboa Scientific Council and Commission of Post-Graduate Studies, Paulo Granjo is also part of the ULisboa Tropical College, Honorary Member by Merit of AMETRAMO (Mozambican Association of Traditional Medicine) and Corresponding Researcher of UEM Centre of African Studies.