Pedro Pombo is a Marie Curie European Research Officer at the Islands and Small States Institute of the University of Malta with the project ECO-HERITAGES - Heritage ecologies: culture, resilience and development in island states, with Dr Stefano Moncada.

He received his PhD in Anthropology from ISCTE- IUL, Lisbon (2015) with an ethnographic exploration on space, belonging and local history in Southern Mozambique. Pedro has conducted archival and ethnographic research in the Western Indian Ocean region, mainly Mozambique, India, Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives, Reunion Island and Tanzania (Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar).

As a collaborator of HAB, Pedro was one of the primary co-convenors of the Textiles and Dyes as Transnational, Indigenous Knowledge in-situ graduate school in 2022, which looked at the circulation of textiles and dyes along less visible cartographies, textile and dyes as sites of precarity and meaning, and testimonies of past and present subjectivities of cloth, clothing and colour. He is also one of the co-editors of the Decolonizing Cloth edited volume of the HAB Methodologies book series.