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As senior EU analyst, she is responsible for developing Crisis Group’s advocacy strategies and liaising with EU and member state officials. She advises on EU policy and produces research and analysis on EU foreign and security policy related to conflict prevention, mitigation and resolution.
Before joining Crisis Group, Marta worked for the European Policy Centre, where she conducted analysis and regularly provided commentary on geopolitics, EU enlargement policy, and EU foreign and security policy.

Last update: september 2026

Full professor of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine of the Portuguese Catholic University, specialising in cognitive neuroscience.
He was President of the International Neuropsychological Society, which awarded him its Distinguished Career Award. A full member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, he has published 10 books and over 200 academic articles.

Last updated: August 2026

Coordinator of the Office of Economic, Business and Public Policy Studies (G3E2P) at the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (FEP), where he obtained his PhD in economic growth.
He has taught at the Lusíada University of Porto and was a senior researcher in the research offices of the AEP – Portuguese Business Association (1999-2011; 2013-2023) and the CIP – Confederation of Portuguese Business Confederation (2011-2013).
He has published articles in national and international scientific journals on economic policy, public finance, institutions, the informal economy and natural resources.

Last update: december 2025

Director of the School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto (FEP) and a full professor and founding member and former president of the Observatory of Economics and Fraud Management (OBEGEF).
He is a member of the cef.UP research centre – Centre for Economics and Finance at the University of Porto.
He has published books, book chapters and over 140 articles in international scientific journals on economic growth – the subject of his PhD – and related topics, such as wage inequality, the unobserved economy, institutions and public finance.
He is currently president of the Municipal Assembly of Miranda do Douro.

Last update: december 2025

He is a nurse specialising in Mental Health and Psychiatry and he has a PhD in Sociology from ISCTE and a postgraduate degree in Data Analysis.
He is currently a professor at the Egas Moniz School of Health and Science, while also doing research in the areas of health, social inequalities and demographic ageing and publishing a large number of scientific articles.
He has worked in multidisciplinary health teams in Angola, Iraq and Timor-Leste, in partnership with local and transnational institutions, such as the WHO, UNICEF and the UN.

Last updated: august 2025

She is an education psychologist and a clinical and health psychologist, with advanced specialisation in psychotherapy and community psychology at the Portuguese Psychologists Association (OPP).
She has been an assistant professor at the European University of Lisbon since 2023. As a researcher, she has worked at the University of Lisbon Environmental Health Institute (ISAMB) and on the “Social Adventure” project.
She is a member of the “International Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children” (HBSC) network and the ”Cross-National Project on Positive Youth Development” (CN-PYD).
She is a coordinator at a number of institutions (ES’COOL project, Promoting Mental Health in Schools; the “Hand in Hand” (HAND:ET) project and the SuPERA project at the European University of Lisbon).
She has a Master’s degree in Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy and a PhD in Education Sciences from the University of Lisbon. She did a postdoc in Psychology at the School of Human Motricity, funded by the FCT.

Last updated: May 2025

She is an associate professor with aggregation at Universidade Lusófona and Director of the Psychology, Innovation and Knowledge Service (SPIC) at that university.
She is Lead Investigator for Portugal, coordinator of Zone A (Mediterranean Countries) and a member of the International Coordination Commission for the “Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children” study by the World Health Organisation.
She coordinates the Portuguese Laboratory of Healthy Work Environments and is the president of the “Social Adventure Association”. She is a member of and an expert on the Ministry of Health’s Ethics Commission for Clinical Research (CEIC)/INFARMED.
She is an aggregate professor of psychology and has a PhD in Psychology, a PhD in Management, a Master's degree in Public Health and a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology.

Last updated: May 2025

She is a full professor at Instituto Superior Manuel Teixeira Gomes (ISMAT) and practices clinical and health psychology at the Algarve Local Health Unit in Portimão.
She has been an integrated researcher at the School of Medicine Environmental Health Institute, University of Lisbon since 2018 and has published several scientific articles in books and national and international journals. She is on the Portuguese team for the study on “Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children” (WHO) and at the School Observatory – Psychological Health and Wellbeing.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Clinical Psychology and a Master’s degree in Health Psychology from ISPA. She got her PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Minho in 2007.

Last updated: May 2025