Education

He has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Aveiro and an aggregate degree in Teaching from the same university. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Chemistry and Biochemistry department at the University of Porto School of Sciences. He is the coordinator of the "Scientific Culture, Multimedia and Education" research group at the University of Porto Chemistry Research Centre (CIQUP). He is director of the PhD course "Teaching and Dissemination of Science". He has published, several articles in national and international journals, alone or in co-authorship, on Physics, Chemistry, Teaching, Technologies and other subjects. He has taken part in the release of 36 books, as well as computer programmes and websites for teaching, mainly in the field of chemistry.

Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Nova School of Business and Economics at Nova University Lisbon. She was Administrator of the National Communications Authority and Minister of Education in the 16th Constitutional Government. Her research has been in the area of Microeconomic Policy, in particular Economic Regulation. In recent years she has done research on Education Economics, co-authoring several articles in this area, including retention, the efficiency of publicly funded private schools, the impact of the publication of school rankings, sampling problems in PISA, decisive factors for success in higher education.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Translation and a Master’s degree in International Education and Development, she was Pedagogical Coordinator in Lisbon and Executive Assistant to the Regional Director of UNICEF WCARO in Dakar. She has worked as an advisor in the area of communication and as a technical and scientific advisor to the National Council. She was responsible for communication and content management on the aQeduto project.

Last updated: March 2022

He is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Porto School of Economics and a researcher at CIPES. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Porto. His research focuses on Philosophy and Economics, History of Economic Thought and Economics of Education.

Last updated: November 2023

He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics. He has carried out research in the areas of Economic Growth and the Economic and Non-Economic Benefits of Education.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minho, researcher at NIPE and CIPES. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrij University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in the Netherlands. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Economics of Education and Spatial Economics, particularly in the student decision-making process.

Last updated: December 2022

He is a research economist in the Department of Economic Studies (area of structural studies) at the Bank of Portugal and a visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is a member of the research unit of CATÓLICA-LISBON, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labour, GLO – Global Labour Organisation and Iniciativa Educação. He has a PhD in Economics from UCL – University College London and was a short-term consultant at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. His research topics include human capital, the economics of education, programme evaluation, the labour market, microeconometrics and economic development. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including the International Economic Review, Labour Economics and the Journal of Population Economics.

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.

He holds a PhD in Economics from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). He is a Full Professor at the University of Coimbra and a member of the Centre for Business and Economics Research (CeBER). He has studied the phenomenon of economic growth in theoretical and empirical terms and has published more than 70 papers in several international journals, including Research Policy, the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organisation, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, the Oxford Economic Papers, and Ecological Economics. He has held a number of university management positions, having been a member of the Senate and Scientific Councils, Course Director and Coordinator, Department and Core Chair and Pro-Rector.
He is the coordinator and a member of the judging panel for research and innovation projects funded by public and private foundations. He was one of the economists invited by the President of Portugal to the Post-Troika Portuguese Economy meeting on in 2013 and one of the economists invited by the Prime Minister to analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the economy and the subsequent crisis.

Last updated: May 2022

She was a Público journalist for about 20 years. She wrote the novel «Terrinhas», which received the Agustina Bessa-Luís Revelation Award in 2021. She has written three non-fiction books, which are on the National Reading Plan: «Crazy things», «Your Father’s Name is not Sergeant» and «Daddy, Were You Afraid?»
She was among the finalists of the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Journalism Prize twice (2015 and 2016). She received the King of Spain International Prize for Journalism in 2015, the Gazeta Multimedia Prize (2014), the AMI-Journalism Award against Indifference (2015) and the Orlando Gonçalves Literary Prize (2016).

Last updated: January 2024