Paulo Almeida Fernandes (Lisbon, 1974) has a PhD in Art History from the Universidade de Coimbra, a Master's degree in Art, Heritage and Restoration, and a degree in History, a variation of Art History, both from the Faculty of Arts at the Universidade de Lisboa.

He is a member of the Institute of Art History at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a collaborator at the Centre for the Study of Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences (Universidade de Coimbra) and the Institute of Early Medieval Studies (Universidade Nova de Lisboa).

He was vice-president of the Portuguese Association of Art Historians between 2009 and 2011, and currently coordinates the Inventory and Research Department at the Museum of Lisbon.

He is also a visiting assistant professor of History of Medieval Art at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. His interests include the study of the Middle Ages and Lisbon, but also the Way of Saint James. On the latter, he was the rapporteur of the proposed routes of the Portuguese Pilgrimage Routes to Santiago de Compostela to be included in the list submitted by Portugal to the National Commissions for UNESCO (2015), and he was the scientific advisor of the project for the Cultural and Tourist Valorisation of the "Torres Way" (2016 -2021).

In addition to publishing articles relating to his field of study and having participated in both national and international conferences on the cult of Saint James in Portugal, he is the author of the following books: