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Associate professor at the University of the Algarve and member of the board of the Algarve Marine Science Centre (CCMAR). She coordinates a scientific team at CCMAR that studies patterns and processes that determine the genetic diversity, ecology and evolution of marine populations at global biogeographic scales. Her research includes environmental and functional genomics in response to environmental and climate change, and diverse marine systems, from microorganisms to giant kelp forests. She has more than 200 indexed scientific publications, coordinates national, European and international projects and was named a "Pew Marine Fellow" by the Pew Foundation in the USA for her work in marine conservation. She is a member of the coordination committee for two Master’s degrees and two PhD course and has supervised 16 PhD students and 36 Master’s theses.

Last updated: November 2017

She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management and is a researcher at CIBIO. Her research interests focus on bibliometrics and scientometrics, particularly the use of bibliometric techniques as a decision support tool in peer review and, more recently, the influence of funding models, autonomy and political instruments on the production of scientific knowledge.

Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Porto.
She was vice-governor of the Bank of Portugal between 2017 e 2019. Later that year, she became European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms until 2024.
SHe served as minister for Planning and for the Environment in the two governments led by António Guterres.
She was a Member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2016. She was the coordinator for the Group of Socialists and Democrats in the EP’s Economic and Monetary (ECON) Committee. Before that, she was a member of the Portuguese National Parliament.
With a degree in Economics from the University of Porto and a Masters (1981) and a PhD (1985) from the University of Reading, in the UK, she was a member of the board of the Instituto Nacional de Estatística.

Last update: september 2026

He has worked as a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil since 2007. He is the director of the electronic magazine «Criticism on the Net» and has written a number of books, including «Philosophy Live», «Naturalised Essentialism», «All the Dreams of the World and Other Essays», «Elementary Logic: Reasoning, Language and Reality» and «The Existence of God: The Essential». He also writes philosophy books for secondary education.
He is a founding member of the Centre for the Teaching of Philosophy at the Portuguese Society of Philosophy.
He has a PhD in Philosophy from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities, he has a Master’s degree in Philosophy of Language and Consciousness from the same university and he is a PhD student of Philosophy at King’s College London, UK – where he taught Logic and Ethics.

He has a PhD in Biochemistry from Nova University Lisbon (UNL), and has devoted himself to science communication for 27 years. Between 2015 and 2019, he managed Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, whose mission is to promote experimental science education and scientific dissemination. During these four years he also coordinated the GPS – Global Portuguese Scientists – project, a social media network that tells us where Portuguese scientists emigrated to and the type of scientific research they are doing outside Portugal. He wrote books such as «Pseudoscience» and «Portuguese Scientists», both published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. He has created several plays and television programmes on scientific topics. He won the «Young Chemicals» and «Green Ideas» awards in 2010. He was the author of Public Enemy and a science journalist at the Público newspaper, a publication he continues to work with as a columnist. He is co-commissioner of the Science and Education Month for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: May 2020

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

She was born in Valpaços in 1980. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, a Master’s degree in Multimedia Education and a PhD in Science Teaching and Dissemination from the University of Porto School of Sciences (FCUP). She has published articles in national and international journals on Chemistry, Teaching and Educational Technologies. She has given presentations and lectures in the area of chemistry teaching and computers applied to teaching at schools, congresses and scientific meetings. She is the co-author of textbooks and science books and has helped produce educational software for teaching chemistry and physics.

Researcher in science and environmental communication at MARE – Centre for Marine and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon. He has a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, a Master's Degree in Applied Ecology and Conservation from the University of Kent and a degree in biology from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Researcher in Data Science at Stratified Medical. Former Professor at ISEP – Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto. PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Coimbra.

Full professor at Instituto Superior Técnico. He is president of the Institute of Systems and Computers (INESC), non-executive director at Caixa Geral de Depósitos and a researcher at INESC-ID. He is also a member of the National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation and of the Advisory Board for the European Parliament’s Science and Technology Panel.
He got his Bachelor's degree at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and completed his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
He has published three books, which have been translated into several languages, and hundreds of scientific and dissemination articles. He has received several awards and distinctions, including the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa / Santander prize for excellence in research in 2009.

Last updated: December 2023