Politics

She is an assistant researcher at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences, where she coordinates the FCT project 'TINA', which explores the relationship between economic integration and democratic support. She got her PhD from the University of Zurich in 2018. Her research interests include political behaviour and attitudes, public opinion, research and survey methods, democratic institutions and the quality of democracy. She has been published in scientific journals such as "Electoral Studies", "Research & Politics" and the "Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties". She is president and co-founder of the DemocracyNet association.

Last updated: April 2024

He is a director with an audiovisual degree from ETIC and a Master's Degree in Communication and Multimedia. He founded Contentus in 2018.
Over the years, he has dedicated himself to exploring the world of performing arts, focusing especially on video installations and video mapping.
He has collaborated extensively throughout his career, contributing as an assistant director on programmes such as RTP's «Eléctrico» and Sérgio Godinho's documentary «SG Gigante».

His forays into the documentary world have included projects such as «And After Democracy», «A Life on the Line», «Mare Nostrum», «Horizons», «Avieiros», «Jorge Palma, Live Your Goals» and «More Than a Wave».
For five years, he produced content for various companies, including Rádio Comercial, TSF and M80, as well as contributing to Turismo de Portugal initiatives.
Simultaneously he collaborated with brands such as Samsung, MEO, Oceanário de Lisboa, Millennium, Media Capital, Diário de Notícias, Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the Portuguese Football Federation and the Oceano Azul Foundation.
In music, he has worked with names such as Rui Veloso, Jorge Palma, James, Amor Electro, Luís Represas, Diogo Piçarra and Tara Perdida.

Biomedical engineer who graduated from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).
She completed her master's degree in 2023 at the Institute of Systems and Robotics – a research unit affiliated with IST – with the thesis «Brain-Computer Interfaces Training with Virtual Reality after Bilateral Neuromodulation with rTMS in Chronic Stroke Patients».

Last update: April 2024

Physicist and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Aveiro. He leads the «Nanofabrication for Optoelectronic Applications» (NOA) research group at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), where he is also a member of the Energy cluster coordination team.
He is also the Scientific Leader of the «Battery Cluster Portugal» association and Research Director of Vasco da Gama CoLAB.

Last updated: April 2024

Jewelry and objects designer.
(1928-2026)

Associate Professor at the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the postgraduate course in demographic studies. She also coordinates the postgraduate and doctoral programmes in population sciences at the same university.
She is a social scientist whose research focuses on the economics of the family, education and social demography.
With a background in economics, she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees at Universidade Nova de Lisboa and her PhD at the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex (UK).

Last updated: March 2024

Portuguese Ambassador to Moscow since 2021.
In 2019, she became the first woman to head the Directorate-General for Foreign Policy (DGPE), a structure of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
She began her diplomatic career in 1995, having also worked in the embassies of Berlin, Islamabad (Pakistan) and Egypt.

Last updated: March 2024

Visual artist and illustrator.
She has a fine arts degree from the School of Arts and Design of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria and a Master's Degree in Contemporary Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto.

Last updated: March 2024

Co-founder and CEO of Innuos, a digital audio production and playback startup.
She was recognised with the «Digital4Her» award by the European Commission. In 2018, she was named by Forbes as one of Europe's 100 Women Founders to Follow and also one of the three finalists for the João Vasconcelos Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 award.
She has a degree in computer engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and an MBA from INSEAD Singapore and France.

Jurist in the area of gender equality. She is a member of the Scientific Technical Group of the Advisory Board of the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality (CIG) and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
She is the author of several articles on gender equality, an educator and a speaker.
She was Secretary of State for Equality between 2004 and 2005 and President of the Commission for Equality in Labour and Employment (CITE). She represented Portugal on the Board of Directors and the Expert Forum of the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE).
In 2019, she was awarded the Maria Barroso Prize.