Dr. Cristina Osswald has a PHD from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, on Jesuit Art in Goa (2003). She is lecturing at the Macau Polytechnic University since August 2019. Her main research interests are the Jesuit art and material cultural, and global arts with a focus on Asia, in particular, India, China and Japan.

In 2014, she acted as a historical consultant to the film cast of Silence by Martin Scorsese. 2018 she earned a grant from the Macau Ricci Institute to develop the research project Jesuit Art in Macau: Between Goa and Japan (16^th-17^th- centuries). She is presently coordinating the three annual research project Global Arts and Architecture during the Qing Dynasty: Building Multilateralism funded by Macau Polytechnic University and with the participation of Dr. Pedro Luengo, Universidade de Seville, as co-supervisor. Her written output includes the book Written in stone: Artistic and architectural features of Jesuit buildings in Goa (2013); and the papers “On Jesuit Baroque Art: Goa, Macau and Peking” (2019); “Jesuit Painting in China between 1582 and 1644: a case study of cultural and spiritual exchange” (2020); “On Christian martyrdom in Japan (1597-1658)” (2021), “Jesuítas de língua alemã e a Coroa Portuguesa na Índia, no Brasil e na China: um contributo transcultural na Época Moderna (sécs. XVI-XVIII)” (2022).