Health

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

Reporter for the Público newspaper since its foundation. He was a correspondent in New York and editor of Pública magazine. For more than 20 years he has been reporting all over the world, in crisis zones, or wherever there is news or a good story. He has covered conflicts in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Chechnya, Algeria, Angola, Kashmir, Sudan, Libya and many others, and has won several awards (Gazeta, AMI, ACIDI, Portuguese Press Club, FLAD, Lettre Ulysses, Lorenzo Natali, etc.). He is a professor of journalism at the School of Communication and Media Studies in Lisbon and he wrote the biography of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho and four other books. He currently has a blog on reports and gallivanting entitled «Reporter on the Loose».

Last updated: September 2020

She has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Development and Social Change, from the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities in Lisbon.
She is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at NOVA FCSH, where she coordinates the Master’s degree in Human Ecology and Contemporary Social Problems. She is an integrated researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences and has done research work on the subjects of ageing and the related social policies, family and intergenerational relations, as well as health.

Last updated: July 2024

He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. He was deputy director of the Centre for International Studies at Iscte-IUL, where he teaches and directs the PhD in History and Security and Defence Studies, in partnership with the Military Academy. He was deputy to the Minister of National Defence (2019-2022). He is a guest professor at the Institute of Political Studies at UCP and, in the 2024-25 academic year, he will be a FLAD guest professor at Georgetown University in Washington. He has published several articles and books, including the essay "Can Portugal have a Strategy?" (2019) published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: June 2024

He holds a PhD in Global Studies from the Nova University Lisbon School of Social Sciences and works as a researcher at IPRI-Nova. His recent research on the concentration of penal colonies, rural development and colonial institutional change has been published in the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, the Portuguese Studies Review and Comparativ. He was also a member of the CEI-ISCTE research team responsible for collecting data and analysing the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the external dimension of Portuguese sovereignty (project funded by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos).

Last updated: November 2023

Researcher at the University of Lisbon School of Psychology. One of the authors of the study "A new normal? Impacts and lessons from two years of the pandemic in Portugal".

Last updated: October 2023

Graduated in Communication and Journalism, with a postgraduate degree in Political Advising and Media. On her way to a master's degree in Political Science at ISCTE.
She assumed the role of digital content manager at the Foundation in October 2023.

Last updated: october 2023

António Martins holds a Master's degree in Finance from the Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), is a PhD student in Economics at ISEG and is an Assistant Professor at Nova SBE.