Patrícia Castello Branco is a researcher and coordinator of CINELAB-Laboratory of Cinema & Philosophy, IFILNOVA. She published dozens of essays and book chapters, in national and international publishers and is author of the book Image, Body, Technology. The Haptic Function of New Technological Images (2013). Central to her research is a dialogue between Philosophy and Cinema. She is co-editor and co-founder of the scientific journal Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. Her research interests include Cinema & Philosophy; Film Theories; Ethical and Aesthetic Values of New technologies; Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art; Art and Body; Haptic Visuality; Critical Posthumanism.