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Associate professor and researcher at the School of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon, in the fields of Urban Politics and Governance, Urban Management and Administration, Urban and Regional Planning.
Commissioner for the Strategic Chart of Lisbon (2009-2010).
He's the author and co-author of five books and coordinated five more.

Last update: june 2025

Born in Rio de Moinhos – Aljustrel in 1952, he went to secondary school in Aljustrel, Faro and Lisbon, where he lived (in Moscavide), worked and studied from the age of 16. He went to ISCTE-IUL from 1981 to 1985, when he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and joined the University of Coimbra School of Economics as an assistant, before also joining the team at the Centre for Social Studies in the same university. Since then, he has taught, done research and published on subjects such as classes and social inequalities, the sociology of business and labour relations, trade unionism, youth and social movements. He got his PhD at the University of Coimbra in 1999, with a thesis on the footwear industry, based on participant observation in a factory in the sector (published under the title Between the Factory and the Community, published by Afrontamento, 2000).

He is a member of the Luso-Brazilian Philosophy Institute, and of the Centre for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA) at the University of Lisbon School Fine Arts, where he is an assistant professor. He teaches Aesthetics, History of Contemporary Art, Theory and History of Sculpture and Theory of Contemporary Art. He has written several books.

Last updated: November 2023

Best known for his ten science fiction novels, writer, journalist, editor and critic Bruce Sterling also writes short stories, literary criticism, design criticism, opinion pieces and forewords to works by authors such as Ernst Jünger and Jules Verne. His non-fiction works include «The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier», «Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years» and «Shaping Things». He is a guest writer for «Wired» magazine, for which he writes on a wide variety of topics such as politics, globalisation and offshoring, technology and security and the potential of NGOs. Sterling also has a personal blog. In 2005, he was «Visionary in Residence» at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In 2008, he was Guest Curator at the Share Festival of Digital Art and Culture in Turin, Italy, and «Visionary in Residence» at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam. In 2011, he returned to the Art Center as «Visionary in Residence» to develop a special project in augmented reality. He has appeared on ABC's «Nightline», BBC's «The Late Show», CBC radio's «Morningside», MTV and TechTV. Furthermore, he has been mentioned in various magazines and newspapers, including: Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Nature, I.D., Metropolis, Technology Review, Der Spiegel, La Stampa and La Repubblica.

Last updated: June 2015

He is a journalist. He directed the «Meios & Publicidade» newspaper and the news office at the Impala group. He was coordinator at the «24 horas» and «Sol» newspapers. He worked at the Lusa press agency, the «Expresso» newspaper and «Sábado», «Superjovem», «Pais & Filhos» magazines, among others. He has published several books.

Last updated: January 2024

A biologist, he has a Master’s degree in Biochemistry and Plant Physiology and a PhD in Plant Systematics and Morphology (ethnobotany) from the University of Coimbra. He is a coordinating professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Beja, where he founded and directed the Botanical Museum. Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at FCSH – Nova University Lisbon / University of Évora. Visiting Scholar at Harvard University.

Last updated: November 2020

(1960-2022) He was a chronicler and cultural critic published in many of the main Portuguese newspapers, such as the Semanario, O Independente, Diário Económico, Se7e and Público. He has published several novels, as well as chronicles and essays.

Last updated: November 2023

Economist and researcher in Political Science at ISCTE-IUL. Director of the postgraduate Pprogram in Critical Thinking and Decision-Making at ISCTE Executive Education, and guest lecturer at Católica-Lisbon.
Consultant, trainer, and speaker on critical thinking and decision-making, with organizations such as Sonae, Nestlé, Fidelidade, Bosch, Isdin, E.Leclerc, Auchan, and C2, among others.
Host of the award-winning podcast «45 Graus» (currently, in partnership with the newspaper Expresso).
Commentator on the program «Contraponto», broadcast on the tv channel RTP News.

Last update: may 2025

He has a PhD in Anthropology from ISCTE-IUL and is an emeritus researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Among the topics to which he has devoted his attention are Portuguese rural society, family and kinship, nationalism, racism, social memory, the history of anthropology, food and cooking and epidemics (the «Spanish flu»). Among his publications, as author and editor, are the books: «Trajetos: o Passado e o Presente na Vida de uma Freguesia da Beira» (1999); with Jorge Vala, «Identidade Nacional, Inclusão e Exclusão Social» (2010); «Portugal, the Portuguese: A National Identity" (2012); with Nuno Domingos and Harry G. West, «Food between the Country and the City: Ethnographies of a Changing Global Foodscape» (2014); with Manuel Carlos Silva, «Ethnicity, Nationalism and Racism: Migration, Ethnic Minorities and School Contexts» (2015); «The Ethnography of Aquilino Ribeiro» (2021). He was president of the Portuguese Anthropology Association (APA) and director of the journal «Análise Social».

Last updated: May 2022

He was born in Vila Nova de Famalicão in 1977. He has a Bachelor's degree in Biology and he was an editor at Quasi Edições between 1999 and 2009. He became an editorial consultant after three years as editorial director at Babel.
He has written poetry, novels, chronicles and children's books. The highlights include his novels «Every Day» (Dom Quixote, 2006) and «The Definition of Love» (Guerra e Paz, 2015), the collection of poems in «Institute of Anthropology» (Glaciar, 2013), the collections «Grandfather and Gui» and «David and Goliath» (Pingo Doce, 2019/2020) and, of course, «The History of Vila Nova – 85 years of Famalicão Football Club».

Last updated: March 2022