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A journalist at the Público newspaper since 1999, she writes about human rights and social exclusion, such as poverty, gender, the protection of children and young people, ageing, domestic violence, drugs, equality and social protection policies. She has written the books «Nobody’s Boys» (2009), «White Travels» (2011), «Perpetual Motion» (2016) and «Women of my Island, Women of my Country» (2022). Her volunteer work resulted in the books «Challenges – the Rights of Women in Guinea-Bissau» (2012), which she co-wrote with Nelson Constantino Lopes, and «Women of São Tomé and Príncipe» (2018), which she co-wrote with Dário Pequeno Paraíso. She has written two documentary plays: «Where the Cold Lingers» (2016) and «It’s Different Now» (2019).

She was born in Lisbon, where she got her Bachelor’s degree in Law, and she has worked in journalism for 25 years. She held the position of Society Editor and Lead Reporter, did film reviews and a weekly chronicle and she founded and managed the Cinema Final Cut website. She has been on the panel of judges at contests organised by ICA, which also funded three of her scripts. She made her début as a novelist with «What Matter the Fury of the Sea» (Teorema) a work that unanimously won the APE/DGLAB2013 Novel and Novella Grand Prize. Her second novel «You Can’t Live in a Cat's Eyes» (Teorema), a finalist in the Oceans Prize, won the Manuel de Boaventura Literary Prize and, again, APE/DGLAB the Novel and Novella Grand Prize 2016, thus entering the small group of Portuguese novelists to have been twice honoured. «Small Domestic Delusions» (Relógio d’Água), a collection of short stories, won the Camilo Castelo Branco/APE Short Story and Novel Award. Her latest novel «The Gesture You Make to Protect Your Head» (Relógio de Água) is a finalist candidate for the Oceans Award. She published a set of stories about war in July 2021: «Maps of Poorly Situated Places». She is the author of the cultural podcast Gross Domestic Happiness by Lisbon Municipal Council.

Last updated: February 2023

Composer, sound designer, acoustic communication specialist and professor at the School of Social and Human Sciences (NOVA-FCSH).
He is a founding member of the Portuguese Acoustic Society.
He studied with R. Murray Schafer and Barry Truax and, under the guidance of the latter, completed his Master's Degree in Interactive Hypermedia Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.
As a composer and sound designer, his work focuses mainly on theatre, video and interactive technologies.
He has written several plays and musicals. He was a programmer for the music and sound arts area at «Coimbra, National Capital of Culture 2003» and assistant to Constança Capdeville, with whom he collaborated in several works.

Last updated: September 2024

Member of the Board and coordinator of the research line «Prospective and Strategic Planning» at the Portuguese Institute of International Relations (IPRI), Nova University Lisbon. She is a professor in the department of Political Studies at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, visiting lecturer at Nova Information Management School and responsible for the seminar Demography, Prospective and Planning on the Master’s degree in Statistics for Health at IHMT, all at Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: September 2018

PhD in Mathematics from the University of Évora in 2010. Her area of specialisation is Sampling and Sampling in Animal Populations, but she has also published works on Statistical Modelling. She is a lecturer in the Mathematics department, an integrated member of the Research Centre for Mathematics and Applications and Director of the Master's Degree in Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis at the University of Évora.

Geographer, Full Professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning and researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre of Geographical Studies (IGOT).
Studies (IGOT). Areas of interest: demography, economics, ageing and migration.

Assistant Professor at the University of Aveiro, Researcher at the Governance, Competitiveness and Public Policies Research Unit at the same institution. PhD in Demography from Nova University Lisbon FCSH.

Last updated: March 2022