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Dr. Natashe Lemos Dekker is an anthropologist based at the University of Amsterdam. Her work focuses on death and dying, end-of-life care, loss, and aging, and dynamics of time and future-making. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Amsterdam, in which she studied time and value at the end of life with dementia in the Netherlands. Her work has been published in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Death Studies, and Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, among others. She was a visiting scholar at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Université de Montréal and was a board member of the Medical Anthropology Europe Network (2017-2023). Currently, she is the PI of the Dutch Research Council funded project ‘Grief Politics: COVID-19-related loss and collective action in Brazil.’