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He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Oxford and teaches at the University of Aveiro (UA).
Since 2024, he has been the coordinator of the Research department at the Foundation and a scientific adviser to the Institutions department.
He was a visiting professor at Georgetown and Brown Universities in the United States in 2015 and 2022, and served as president of the Portuguese Political Science Association between 2016 and 2021.
A specialist in Portuguese and comparative politics, he has focused primarily on the study of political institutions and party systems, political communication and electoral behaviour in Portugal.
In 2017, he published «Parties and Party Systems», an essay for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: june 2026

He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Goethe University in Germany and he is a full professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra (UC), where he has held various management positions. He founded and directed the Centre for Computational Physics, where he installed the largest and fastest Portuguese supercomputer for scientific calculation. He is the director of UC's Rómulo Ciência Viva Centre and one of Portugal's most important science communicators, with books, textbooks and hundreds of articles published. He has lectured at universities in Brazil and the USA and he was scientific coordinator of the "Knowledge" area of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos and a member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology. He chaired the regional board of the Portuguese Physics Society, through which he promoted scientific experimentation activities for school laboratories, created the "Mocho" portal for teaching and promoting science and was a consultant for television programmes. He is a member of the International Forum of Portuguese Researchers. Distinguished with the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator and the Golden Globe for Merit and Excellence in Science (2005), he also received the Ciência Viva Grand Prize (2017) and the José Mariano Gago Award from SPA (2018).

Last updated: November 2019

He has a Bachelor’s degree in Modern and Contemporary History and he is a writer, literary critic, translator and assistant editor at Ler magazine.
Born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, but today «without religion», he wrote about the reality of religious minorities, almost unknown in Portugal, in his book «Alleluia».
His début novel, «The First Things», published by Quetzal in 2013, and he won the Fernando Namora Literary Prize, the Narrative Prize from the P.E.N. Club and the 2015 José Saramago Award.
He worked for DN Jovem, Atlântico magazine and the i newspaper, and he was also a communication advisor to the publishing houses in the Bertrand Círculo Group. He wrote the «Guide to 50 Portuguese Fiction Characters» (Guerra e Paz, 2013) and his second novel, “Today, You Will Be With Me In Paradise», received the Fiction Award 2016-2017 at the Literary Fiction Festival.
He works with the Observador newspaper and writes the Circo da Lama blog.

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.

PhD in Sociology from ISCTE-IUL. She has carried out research in the areas of Communication, Information Technologies and Health, and Generations and Communication Technologies. She has published books and articles including "Saúde e Comunicação numa Sociedade em Rede: o caso português" in 2009 and "A Relação entre TIC, Utentes, Profissionais e Redes Tecnológicas de Gestão de Informação em Saúde" in 2011 (co-authored).

Last updated: March 2022

Professor of Political Science at ISCTE.
He has carried out research into electoral behaviour and public opinion, as well as electoral systems, the relationship between politics and entertainment, and the effects of the media and campaigns.
He holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence.
He has had several articles published in scientific journals and book chapters published by Oxford University Press, Routledge and other publishing houses. He wrote the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essay «Politics and Entertainment» and co-coordinated, with João Cancela, the «Mechanisms and Impacts of Electoral Abstention» project promoted by the same institution.

Last updated: september 2025

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Journalist, television newsreader and Deputy Director of RTP. With a degree in sociology, he began his professional career in 1989 at Rádio Comercial and worked for Antena 1 and TSF, before moving to television two years later. He became an anchor at RTP and presented various news programmes. He moved to SIC between 2000 and 2001 before returning to RTP, where he became Deputy Director of Information and Deputy Director of RTPN. He spent half a year heading up information for the new Channel 11 before once more returning to RTP.

Last updated: May 2022

Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Systems Management and member of the Public Health Research Centre. Member of the Pedagogical and Scientific Council at ENSP-Nova. She has a PhD in Public Health from ENSP-Nova, a postgraduate degree in Hospital Administration from ENSP-Nova and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Coimbra School of Economics. Her areas of interest are the use of hospital care, risk adjustment, hospital performance evaluation through outcome indicators, end-of-life hospital care and economic evaluation.

Last updated: March 2022