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Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto (FEP-UP) and Vice-Rector of the University of Porto. Director of CIPES – Higher Education Policy Research Centre. Consultant to the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic for Higher Education and Science (since April 2016). Member of the Education Council of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (since 2013) and of the CNE – National Education Council (since 2014). Member of the Board of Directors of the Bial Foundation (since 2015).

Last updated: November 2017

Journalist for the Público.

Last updated: September 2020

He is a nutritionist by profession and by conviction. He is a specialist in Clinical Nutrition and works in the Endocrinology Service at Hospital de Santa Maria, CHULN and in Social Services at the Lisbon Municipal Council. He has a Master’s degree in Clinical Nutrition and PhD in Metabolic Diseases and Food Behaviour, he is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and Egas Moniz School of Health & Science, while also engaging in teaching and scientific coordination functions in other institutions. Obesity is one of his main research topics, having published several papers and taken part in national and international scientific events.

Last edited: May 2023

A doctor, she is doing her specific training in General and Family Medicine. She got her Bachelor’s degree (2008) and PhD (2016) in Nutrition, in the area of child food consumption, from the University of Lisbon School of Medicine, where she has been a visiting assistant professor since 2018. She is devoted to study and research in the area of maternal nutrition and child nutrition. She worked as a nutritionist at the Portuguese Red Cross Hospital and collaborated on several national and international projects in the area of pregnancy, breastfeeding and child malnutrition.

Last edited: May 2023

A nutritionist, she was named a specialist in clinical nutrition by the Nutritionists' Association, she is an associate professor of Nutrition at the Lisbon School of Medicine, engaging in intensive pedagogical activities with Nutrition students, but also in the medical area. In parallel, she also works in the clinical area, currently in the Luz Health group.
She has already worked on different research projects and has published several scientific articles in national and international specialty journals. Her areas of interest focus on the study of the impact of nutrition on the risk and development of chronic inflammatory diseases, especially intestinal and rheumatic diseases.

Last edited: May 2023

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and is a specialist in clinical nutrition. She has worked as an assistant in hospital contexts and continues her scientific activities, always guided by the demands and challenges of clinical practice. She has made several national and international publications with scientific arbitration and communications at scientific events. She has a PhD in Life Sciences, Clinical Research branch, and teaches at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine, which allows her to reconcile her two favourite worlds: Health and Teaching.

Last edited: May 2023

She is a nutritionist and got her Bachelor’s degree from the Lisbon School of Health Technology (2001), where she began her career in the academic area (2001). Named a specialist in Community Nutrition and Public Health by the Nutritionists' Association (2020), she has been an assistant professor at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine since 2017. She has been active in teaching and research since 2001, focusing on nutrition and public health, nutritional epidemiology and community nutrition, with a special interest in the role of food and nutrition as health promoters throughout the lifecycle, from conception to adolescence. She was born in Lisbon in 1979.

Last edited: May 2023

Associate professor with aggregation at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. Her teaching activities are in the context of the evaluation of physical activity and physical fitness in general and the prescription of exercise for elderly people in particular.
Her research is now focused on the study of the musculoskeletal health phenotype – how physical activity/exercise and physical fitness determine: the peak of muscle mass and bone mass during the growth process, sarcopenia, osteopenia, fragility and falls during the ageing process and clinical conditions/treatments with side effects on musculoskeletal health.

Last updated: May 2024

Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education, a Master’s degree in Sport Psychology and a PhD in Motor Sciences. She was a Physical Education teacher for 15 years. She has several national and international publications in the areas of motor development, motor skills, perception and action, independence of mobility, the importance of play, risk and child safety.

Last updated: May 2024

Professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. His favourite research area focuses on the promotion of physical activity and its relationship with health.
He has written several books, book chapters and articles.
He has three PhDs – Education Sciences, Sports Sciences and Health Sciences – and a post-doctorate degree in International Health. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education and a Master's degree in Physical Education and Public Health and he was a physical education teacher for eight years.

Last updated: May 2024