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Geneticista e investigador na University College London (UCL) é também apresentador de programas de rádio e televisão e autor de vários livros sobre ciência, religião e cinema. No Institute of Child Health da UCL, integrou um projeto de investigação sobre o papel da retina na identificação da base genética de um tipo de cegueira, tendo-se doutorado com uma tese nessa área. Para a BBC, concebeu e apresentou programas como «The Cell on the History of Biology», «Playing God», «The Gene Code» e «Science Betrayed», entre muitos outros. Em «Creation: The Origin of Life & The Future of Life», obra nomeada para o Wellcome Trust Book Prize, defende a teoria de que a vida poderá não ter surgido no «caldo primordial» e debruça-se sobre questões ligadas à biologia sintética, isto é, à modificação dos genes por ação humana e à criação de novos organismos para fins terapêuticos ou industriais. Mais recentemente, publicou «A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes» e «The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us».

Última atualização: novembro de 2019

She has been teaching in higher education since 1999 and is currently a lecturer at the School of Psychology, Education and Sport at Universidade Lusófona do Porto (ULP). She mainly teaches subjects in the fields of Cognitive Psychology and Educational Psychology.
She has been carrying out scientific research for over 20 years, focusing on areas such as learning, attention and human memory. She is a member of the HEI-Lab – Digital Human-Environment Interaction Lab, at Lusófona University and the Psychology Research Centre at the University of Minho. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Minho, where she specialised in School and Educational Psychology. Later, she got her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology, focusing on "Attention and Working Memory in Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder". Shortly afterwards, she got her PhD in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, having explored the mechanisms of operant memory in her thesis.

Last updated: September 2020

Gonçalo Saraiva Matias is the Minister Adjunct and for State Reform of the XXV Constitutional Government. He was Chairman of the Board of Directors and of the Executive Committee of the Foundation between september 2022 and june 2025.
He was a professor at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University of Portugal, where he also obtained his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees.
He was director of the Catholic Global School of Law and visiting professor at Washington University. He conducted research at the Georgetown University Law School as a Fulbright visiting scholar. Most of his work falls within Regulatory, Administrative, Constitutional and International Law. He was the director of the Migration Observatory, Secretary of State for the Administrative Modernisation of the XX Constitutional Government. He has been advisor for legal affairs to the President of the Portuguese Republic since 2008. In 2016, he was awarded the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. He was born in Lisbon, in 1979.

Last uptade: june 2025

He has a PhD in Biology from the University of Porto and his main research interests are linked to Evolutionary Biology. Full Professor in the Biology Department of the University of Porto School of Sciences, where he teaches Genetics and Evolution. Director of CIBIO – Biodiversity and Genetic Resources Research Centre and of the Associated Laboratory InBIO – Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Research Network. In recent years, he has established a network of collaborative laboratories in several African countries, called TwinLabs, whose strategic objectives are scientific and technological training, advanced human resources training and knowledge transfer. In 2017, UNESCO awarded the Life on Land Chair to the University of Porto, with the aim of promoting and coordinating this network of TwinLabs, with Nuno Ferrand holding the Chair. Coordinator of the European project BIOPOLIS, recently approved by the European Commission, which results in the mobilisation of the largest amount of funding ever awarded to a research centre in Portugal. Director of the Museum of Science and Natural History at the University of Porto where, in partnership with the Portuguese Science Promotion Agency Ciência Viva, he created the Biodiversity Gallery.

She is Director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, where she has worked as Lead Researcher since 2005, the same year she started teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Lisbon.
Although her research addresses various fields, her primary focus is malaria and the mechanisms that cause the infection to develop into a deadly disease.
With a PhD in Molecular Parasitology from University College London in the UK and a Master's in Immunology from the University of Porto, she has worked in scientific research centres such as the Gulbenkian Institute of Sciences and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in the USA.
With over 100 publications and four patents, she has received dozens of national and international awards – including the Pessoa Prize (2013) and the Sanofi-Institut Pasteur Prize (2018).

Last updated: May 2023

Full Professor in Education Sciences at the University of Coimbra School of Psychology and Education Sciences. She did her PhD and aggregation in Educational Psychology at the University of Coimbra. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, coordinated some of these courses and supervised numerous Master’s and PhD dissertations. Her research interests focus mainly on instruction and school learning, areas to which much of her published work refers (books, book chapters, articles in scientific journals and conference proceedings). It has also been in these areas that she has been working very hard on research projects, coordinating them or joining the teams in question.

She is Rector of Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, where she headed the Scientific Council and Researcher at Iscte’s Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte).
She was Minister of Education between 2005 and 2009 and chaired the Board of Directors of the Luso-American Development Foundation between 2010 and 2013.
She chaired the Science and Technology Observatory of the Ministry of Science and Technology. She has published several works, especially on the sociology of professions, information society and public policy.

Last updated: May 2023

Founder and CEO of the communications company Empower Sports and presenter on the Eleven Sports channel. He began his career at RTP, later working for CNN (in the US and later as a correspondent in London), Sport TV and UEFA. He has also worked with FIFA and the Portuguese Football Federation.

Last updated: January 2022

She has been a researcher at CIBIO-InBIO since 2004. With a PhD in Biology from the University of Porto in 2011, she has been carrying out scientific and human training work in the PALOP since 2006. In addition to having published more than 30 articles in indexed journals, she has produced and participated in various science dissemination activities, such as documentaries and books. She embraced this project because she believes in the power of communication combined with scientific accuracy.

Last updated: March 2022

Science communication consultant and press columnist. He has been a journalist for most of his professional life. He worked for the weekly Expresso and the daily Público, of which he was one of the founders, where he created the first daily science section in the Portuguese press and founded the newspaper's website. He has devoted himself to training journalists and teaching science communication at undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as providing a stage for science and technology.