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Associate professor in the Sociology Department at Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and Researcher at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte).
He is Director of the Inequalities Observatory and Scientific Coordinator of CoLABOR. As an author or organiser, he has published around 30 books, regularly writes articles in national and international journals and has received several scientific awards. His projects and research focus on social and territorial inequalities, job insecurity, unemployment, the welfare state, public policies, spatial mobility and social capital.

Former Full Professor at the National School of Public Health at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is a member of the National Public Health Council and the Advisory Council for the National Health Plan, as well as both the Board of Directors and the General Council of the Foundation for Health – SNS.
He was Director-General of Health between 1997 and 1999 and a doctor and health delegate in Bárue (Mozambique). He has also lived in Copenhagen, where he was Director for Health Policies and Services of the European Region of the World Health Organisation.
He has won countless distinctions, including the Gold Medal for Distinguished Service in 2006 from the Portuguese Ministry of Health and the National Health Award in 2019.

Last updated: April 2024

Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Porto (FEP-UP) and Vice-Rector of the University of Porto. Director of CIPES – Higher Education Policy Research Centre. Consultant to the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic for Higher Education and Science (since April 2016). Member of the Education Council of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos (since 2013) and of the CNE – National Education Council (since 2014). Member of the Board of Directors of the Bial Foundation (since 2015).

Last updated: November 2017

She is a journalist at the Público newspaper, where she is editor of the Culture section, and she has also been on the team at the P2 newspaper and 2 magazine. Previously, she was a journalist at the Expresso and coordinated the magazine for that weekly newspaper. She went on two Bachelor’s degree courses, Law and Communication and Media Studies, without, however, finishing either of them.

Last updated: March 2022

He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester, USA, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Catholic University of Portugal. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an associate professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics, where he has devoted himself to teaching and research in the areas of public economy, social policies and health economics, seeking to create theories of practical application.

Last updated: May 2023

She is an associate professor in the department of Political Science and Public Policy at ISCTE-IUL, where she coordinates the Master's degree in Political Science, and a researcher at CIES-ISCTE. She has been involved in several research projects related to the themes of democracy, political participation, representation, electoral promises and political decision-making. She has published the results of her research in a number of national and international journals, books and book chapters.

Last updated: May 2022

Clinical and health psychologist. A psychotherapist, she is a full professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. Coordinator of «G2 – Supportive Environments» at ISAMB. Member of the Association of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP) and coordinator of the EFPA Board of Promotion & Prevention for the OPP. National Coordinator of the WHO Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study.

Last updated: March 2021

She is an assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL and an integrated member of the Centre for Research and Social Intervention (CIS-IUL). She is the director of the Master's degree in Social Psychology of Health at ISCTE.
She has worked mainly in two areas: Psychology of the Environment and Psychology of Ageing. She has several publications with an impact on scientific journals and has worked on several national and international projects in the field of environmental psychology and ageing.
She wrote the essay «Discrimination Against the Elderly», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. More recently, he served as an expert in the Global Report against Ageism with the World Health Organisation.

Last updated: February 2024

Social psychologist, principal investigator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL) and visiting professor at the School of Psychology, also in that university. He has a PhD in Social Psychology from ISCTE – IUL (2009) and did his postdoctoral studies in the Netherlands and Lisbon (ICS-UL).
He was president of the Portuguese Psychology Association (APP) between 2021 and 2023.
His research focuses on intergroup relations and socially relevant decisions for low-status groups.
He has published works in magazines such as the «European Journal of Social Psychology» and «Frontiers in Psychology».

Last updated: December 2023