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She has a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Physics (IST-UL) and a PhD in Systems Biology (ITQB-NOVA), having done her thesis at Harvard University in the USA.
She was principal investigator at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science and director of the Science for Development Postgraduate Programme, a PhD programme aimed at PALOP (Portuguese-speaking African countries).
She was a professor at Nova SBE and has been coordinating the multidisciplinary research group «Social Physics & Complexity» — SPAC at the Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics Laboratory since 2020.

Last updated: april 2025

Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal in Braga since 2006 and a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies.
He has a Master’s degree in Psychology – specialising in Family Psychology, from the Catholic University of Portugal School of Philosophy in Braga.
He has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Porto School of Psychology and Education Sciences.

Last updated: april 2025

Studied law before graduating to newspapers and magazines. He wrote regularly about music for almost 40 consecutive years.
He has two weekly radio programmes on Antena 1 («Bairro Latino» and «As Regras da Atração»).
He has been on the panel of commentators on «Trio d’Ataque» (RTP3) since 2012.
He previously published the book «When TV Used to Bring the Country to a Halt», which was followed by «Something to Talk About and Sweet Mouth». He also has other books in his portfolio.

Last updated: april 2025

He has a Bachelor's degree in Landscape Architecture from the University of Évora. He was Director of the Ria Formosa Natural Park and the Marshland Nature Reserve of Castro Marim and Vila Real de Santo. He has written three novels and won the LeYa prize for «The Invisible People» (April 2022). Slippery Slopes – Selected Poetry, revisiting twelve poems, is his most recent book.

Last update: january 2025

In addition to being an architect, he is also a freelance journalist.
He was an activist with the Wake Up Lisbon Movement, editor of «DIF» and «Le Cool Lisboa» and journalist for «Coimbra Coolectiva» magazine.
He took second place in the Fundação Casais/CEiiA Prize for «Journalism for Sustainability 2023», received an honourable mention in the «2023 Journalism and Local Power» Prize from the Association of Portuguese Municipalities and an honourable mention for journalism from «Associação Corações com Coroa» in 2024.
He has a Bachelor's degree in Architecture form the Coimbra School of Artistic Technology and a Master's degree in Building Rehabilitation from the University of Coimbra.

Last updated: january 2025

She graduated in Law from the University of Coimbra and is a journalist, commentator, columnist and writer.
She was editor and chief editor of the weekly Expresso, where she writes the column «Capricious Feather» and continues to publish regularly. She was also on the editorial boards of the newspapers A Tarde, Correio da Manhã and Jornal de Letras.
For four years (2000-2004), she directed the Casa Fernando Pessoa, where she re-founded the magazine Tabacaria, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Centro Cultural de Belém (2010-2013).
She is a resident commentator on SIC Notícias’ political current affairs programme «The Axis of Evil» and Canal Q’s programme «What Remains of What Passes». She co-wrote the television programmes «Figures of Style» with Vasco Graça Moura, and «Chatter», both on RTP2, and «The Path is Made by Walking» with Mário Soares, on RTP1. She also appeared on the television programme «The Lord Who Follows» on SIC.
She has published books of short stories, collections of essays and chronicles and a novel. She is a member of the jury for the Pessoa Prize and the German Marshall Fund in Portugal, and is a member of the General Council of the University of Coimbra.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, becoming the first Turkish writer to receive this award. In addition to being a writer, he is Professor of Literature at Columbia University. He studied architecture at Istanbul Technical University and journalism at Istanbul University, but never pursued either of these professions. He lived in the US between 1985 and 1988, where he attended Columbia University in New York and also the University of Iowa for a short time. He currently lives in Istanbul, where he was born in 1952.

Last updated: January 2024

(1923-2025) Nobel Prize for Literature 2010, he was one of Latin-American literature’s greatest authors, whose works have been translated into over 20 languages. After graduating with a degree in literature and law from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, in 1959 he left for Spain, where he obtained a PhD in Philosophy and Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. His commitment to literature bore fruit when his first publication, a collection of short stories published under the title «Los jefes» (The Bosses), was awarded the Leopoldo Arias prize.
In 1964, he returned to Peru before travelling to Havana, where he sat on the jury of the Casa de las Américas Awards and on the editorial board of the «Casa de las Américas» magazine. Later, he worked as a translator for UNESCO in Greece with Julio Cortázar and lived in Europe until 1974, mainly in Paris, London and Barcelona. In 1975, he was appointed a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and in 1976, he was elected President of the International Pen Club. In 1994, he was appointed a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. In 1981, he returned to Peru, where he directed the television programme The Tower of Babel. In 1987, he emerged as the political leader of the Freedom Movement and, three years later, he ran for President of the Republic for the Frente Democrático-FREDEMO party.
He has been a Visiting Professor or Resident Writer at various universities around the world, such as Queen Mary College and King's College at the University of London, the University of Cambridge, the Scottish Arts Council, Washington State University, Columbia University, the Smithsonian's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Florida International University and Harvard University.

Last updated: april 2025