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Researcher at the Iscte Centre for International Studies. She works with the Directorate General for National Defence Policy as a researcher in the preparation of studies, advice and documentation on CSDP, Strategic Compass, EU-NATO, Defence Economy, CIVMIL, maritime security, Sahel, EU-Africa, hybrid threats, European Peace Facility.
She holds a PhD in History, Security and Defence Studies, a Master’s degree in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe (Bruges) and a postgraduate degree in Classical Studies (University of Lisbon).

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

American virologist and epidemiologist who studies the transmission of infectious viruses. His research focuses mainly on the transmission of viruses related to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) between non-human primates and bushmeat hunters in Africa.

Last update: January 2024

Specialist in International Relations and Security Studies. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and was a professor of political science at Yale University.
He was also director of the Centre for International Security Studies at Yale University, where he taught International Relations Theory and Security and Defence Studies. He was a researcher at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Centre and a member of Brandford College

Last updated: June 2021

Sara Sá is a science communicator at GIMM – Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine. Before joining GIMM, she worked as a science and health journalist for «Visão» newsmagazine and «Exame Informática». For more than two decades, she has written articles for media, reported news stories for television, and hosted podcasts.
She has interviewed Nobel Prize laureates and reported from around the world. She holds a degree in Space Engineering, has published a book debunking scientific myths, and her work has been recognized by UNESCO, LPCC, and Apifarma.

Last uptaded: october 2025

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.

Last updated: June 2020

He has a PhD in Social Psychology and a Master's degree in Cognitive Psychology. He is an associate professor with aggregation and coordinator of the Master's degree course in Cognitive and Social Psychology at the University of Lisbon School of Psychology. His areas of research focus on social cognition and judgement and decision-making.

Last updated: May 2022

Professor of Health Economics in the Lancaster University Division of Health Research, UK. She has a PhD in Public Health Economics, a Master's degree in European Social Policy and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics. She was Assistant Professor of Health Economics at the National School of Public Health (2001-2014). She worked at the Ministry of Health's Institute for Informatics and Financial Management (now ACSS) in the Management Information Systems Development department between 1995 and 2001, where she was the executive responsible for the Financing System/Classification System in Homogeneous Diagnosis Groups. As a researcher she works mainly in the area of economic evaluation of health technologies, measuring efficiency, equity and quality of life. She is president of the Portuguese Association of Health Economics (APES) and one of the founders of EuHEA – European Association of Health Economics. She was the scientific coordinator of the documentary "Tudo é Nada sem Saúde" for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: May 2022