Full Professor at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and Researcher of the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Marília de Nazaré Ferreira Silva leads the Observatory of Amazonian Indigenous Languages and Cultures research project, supported by CNPq at UFPA and others projects. She has been working on Amazonian Indigenous Languages Description and Documentation, especially Macro-Jê languages. She is also involved in research projects in cooperation to the Helsinki University and National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics. In 2024, she was chosen, in a competitive selection of Fulbright-Brazil, to be the Ruth Cardoso Chair (2024-2025) at the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University, in Washington, DC. Her multidisciplinary research project at GU involves the construction of a virtual encyclopaedia of Gavião-Jê language and culture, considering principles of ecology, sustainable and preservation of them.