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He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Goethe University in Germany and he is a full professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra (UC), where he has held various management positions. He founded and directed the Centre for Computational Physics, where he installed the largest and fastest Portuguese supercomputer for scientific calculation. He is the director of UC's Rómulo Ciência Viva Centre and one of Portugal's most important science communicators, with books, textbooks and hundreds of articles published. He has lectured at universities in Brazil and the USA and he was scientific coordinator of the "Knowledge" area of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos and a member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology. He chaired the regional board of the Portuguese Physics Society, through which he promoted scientific experimentation activities for school laboratories, created the "Mocho" portal for teaching and promoting science and was a consultant for television programmes. He is a member of the International Forum of Portuguese Researchers. Distinguished with the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator and the Golden Globe for Merit and Excellence in Science (2005), he also received the Ciência Viva Grand Prize (2017) and the José Mariano Gago Award from SPA (2018).

Last updated: November 2019

An economist and Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG). He is a consultant at the National Statistics Institute (INE) in the area of household statistics.
His research focuses on microeconomics, income distribution, poverty and inequality, and public policy evaluation. He is the author of several studies on poverty and inequality in Portugal, as well as on the effectiveness of social policies.
He was President of the Institute of Public Policy from 2015 to 2020. He was a member of the Coordination Committee for drawing up the National Strategy to Fight Poverty.
He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Lisbon under the supervision of Tony Atkinson (Oxford University), with the thesis «Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty: Portugal in the 1990s».

She got her PhD in Sociology from the University of Évora in 2015 and a Master's degree in Sociology from the same university. Her area of specialisation is demography, and her research focuses on fertility, studying the ideal family size, fertility intentions in the short term and throughout people’s lives. She is an integrated member of CIDEHUS-UÉ.

She has a PhD in Sociology and she is a full professor and coordinator of the Sociology Unit at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP). She founded and now runs the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) at ISCSP. She has been a member of the team responsible for implementing the European Social Survey in Portugal since 2002.
She is an expert on subjects such as gender, family, marriage, divorce, work/family relations, the protection of children and young people, moral and sexual harassment and has set up several Master’s and postgraduate courses in these areas. Her research has served as the basis for legislative changes, such as the amendment to the divorce law or the changes relating to moral and sexual harassment.

She has been part of several international research networks under Framework Programmes 6, 7 and the European Commission's Horizon 2020. She was President of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2002-2006) and the European Sociological Association (2009-2011). She was on the European Research Council’s Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour evaluation panel and has held a number of positions in the International Sociological Association. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency (A3ES) since 2020.

Last updated: May 2023

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.

Associate Professor and President of the Pedagogical Council of the Nova School of Business and Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published research in academic journals such as the «Journal of International Economics», the «Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control», the «European Economic Review and the Economics of Education Review». She is the coordinator of the project «Determinants of school effectiveness: learning from the microdata of the Portuguese education system» with FCT funding under the 2014 call for scientific research projects. Previously, she had also coordinated the project «Efficiency of the education system and the evaluation and accountability system», also funded by the FCT.
She has a degree and PhD in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

With a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bath (United Kingdom), he is currently an Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at ISEG, Superior Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon and the Coordinator of ISEG's Policy Lab.
Previously, he worked as a researcher at Trinity College Dublin and Oslo Metropolitan University. Currently, he sits on the Board of ESPANET - European Social Policy Network.
He has written extensively on Social Policy related topics from the activation of minimum income beneficiaries to the impact of demographic ageing on the sustainability of pension systems. More recently, his research has focused on the social policy responses to COVID-19 and the inflationary crisis that followed. His work has been published in leading international scientific journals – including Social Policy & Administration, European Journal of Social Security, Journal of Population Aging and European Journal of Ageing - and with renowned publishers (Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar or Policy Press).
At the national level, Amílcar coordinated a study on the “Sustainability of the Portuguese Pension System” for the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, and was part of the recent Commission for the Sustainability of Social Security.



Last updated: September 2025

Geographer, PhD in human geography and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he works on the integrated master's and PhD courses.
He is also a researcher at FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU). He has published extensively, including «Transgenic Landscapes» (Landscape Museum 2021), «Tour of Portugal» (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), «Common Home Territory» (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), «The Street of the Road» (Dafne, Porto, 2010), «Country Life» (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and «Urban Policies I and II» (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011) and «City and Democracy» (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He writes regularly for the newspaper «Público».
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.

Last updated: September 2022

Alice Ramos has a PhD in Social Sciences from Instituto de Ciências Sociais-Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), with the thesis «Human Values and Opposition towards Immigration in Europe», where she analyses the impact of individual factors and social contexts on attitudes towards immigrants, on threat perceptions and on racial prejudice.
Currently, she is research fellow at the ICS-ULisboa. Her research interests are on the intersection of two lines of study: a) the impact of the articulation between individual factors (values and attitudes) and social structures on the development of discriminatory attitudes and prejudice, in a multilevel perspective; b) methodologies of trans-national and longitudinal studies. She recently started a line of research on the development of values and discriminatory attitudes in childhood and adolescence.
She is National Coordinator of the European Social Survey-ERIC and the European Values Study. At ICS-ULisboa, in 2009, she was co-founder of the Summer School on Advanced Methods in Data Analysis; between 2021 and 2023 she was a member of the Ethics Committee; currently, she is president of the Pedagogical Council and the Postgraduate Studies Committee.

Last update: June 2024

Isabel Horta Correia is currently a professor at the Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics at UCP. She developed her research career for almost 30 years at the Economic Studies Department of the Banco de Portugal, which she directed for 5 years.
Her general area of interest is Macroeconomics, namely in the subareas of economic cycles, monetary economics, optimal fiscal and monetary policies, and redistributive impacts of economic policy.
Isabel’s work has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics Studies, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the European Economic Review.
She was a research reviewer for the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a member of the evaluation panels for the European Research Council's Advanced Grants. She was also a member of the European Economic Association Council; of the Portuguese Catholic University’s Scientific Society; of the Scientific Advisory Board of CREI – Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional, and of the European University Institute's Research Council.
She is currently a correspondent for the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and a research fellow at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research and the European Economic Association.

Last updated: October 2023