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.
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.
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.
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».
He was born in Lisbon in 1975. He won the José Saramago Literary Prize in 2009 with «The Three Lives» and was a finalist in the Portugal Telecom Prize in 2011 with the same book. He has published twelve novels. He was a finalist in the Best Narrative Fiction Prize from the Portuguese Society of Authors (2011 and 2015), the Fernando Namora Literary Prize (2011, 2012, 2015, 2016), and the European Literary Prize in 2012. His books are published in several countries.
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.
A professional photographer since 1986, he works in the industrial, engineering/architecture and editorial areas. In 1994, he co-founded Volta ao Mundo magazine and was its director of photography until 2004, reporting from more than 50 countries. He held the same position in Evasões magazine between 1999 and 2002. He is responsible for several albums and exhibitions, his work is published in a number of national and international media outlets and present in various collections.
He was born in Espinho in 1979. He writes for the Expresso, where he published his first report in 2001 and which he joined as coordinator of Revista magazine in 2011. He worked at the Público newspaper and with SIC and RTP, as well as publishing in several foreign newspapers, from the British The Guardian to the Spanish El Mundo. He interviewed Al Gore and Obama’s photographer, spoke to some of the best chefs in the world, covered Bolsonaro’s rise in Brazil and revealed a sexual harassment scandal involving former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter. His work has already won awards from the Portuguese Press Club, the Portuguese League Against Cancer, the European Best Cancer Reporter Award and the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities. He is the author of the books «Children of Chemotherapy», also published by FFMS, and «Chefs Without Reserves» (Clube do Autor).
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).
A journalist, she started working as a freelancer for a United Nations news agency, where she covered HIV/AIDS issues in Africa.
She has been working with several Portuguese media for over a decade, including Notícias Magazine (DN/JN), the Observador and Visão Saúde, where she writes mainly about health, mental health and behaviour
