Swedish biologist specialising in evolutionary genetics. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2022 for sequencing the Neanderthal genome and discovering a previously unknown hominid. He is considered one of the founders of paleogenetics. Director of the Genetics Department at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. He has won several awards, including the Princess of Asturias Award in 2018. He is the author of the book «Neanderthal Man» (Gradiva, 2019), translated in partnership with the Foundation.
Researcher at the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology (IBMC) and the Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), studying the genetics of ageing.
Science journalist for radio, television and the press. Trained at Columbia University in New York, NOVA and the Haute École ICHEC in Brussels, he was also Communications Coordinator at ISCTE-IUL. He has received awards from the Association for the Promotion and Development of the Information Society and the online magazine «Ciência Hoje».
An Emmy-winning writer, producer and director, she specialises in science communication. She co-created the television series «Cosmos», presented by Carl Sagan, wrote and produced the sequels «Cosmos: A Journey Through Space-Time» (2014) and «Cosmos: Possible Worlds» (2020), as well as publishing a book of the same name (Gradiva, 2020). She was creative director of NASA's Voyager Interstellar Message Project, the gold disks carried by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft.
With a PhD in Biochemistry from University College London (UCL), Camilla Pang is a postdoctoral scientist specialising in translational bioinformatics at a pharmaceutical company developing treatments for diseases with immunological and neurological causes. She is the author of «Explaining Humans» (Penguin Viking, March 2020), a memoir that draws on scientific principles to understand human behaviour, from the perspective of a person suffering from autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The book was a finalist for the Royal Society Insight Investment Best Scientific Book Award 2020.
A Portuguese neuroscientist, he is the CEO and director of the world's largest brain research centre, the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute in the US. He is a professor at Columbia University in New York. He researches the neurobiology of action in health and disease. His laboratory uses approaches from genetics, electrophysiology, optics and behaviour to investigate the mechanisms that underlie action activation and action learning. His findings have led to new hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying the creation of movement and motor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.
He graduated from the University of Lisbon in 1996 and started the GABBA programme (Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology) at the University of Porto the following year. He did post-doctoral studies with Alcino Silva at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and then post-doctoral work with Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University.
He was director of Champalimaud Research and deputy director and researcher of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. In 2012, he became an international early career scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and received the Young Researcher Award from the Society for Neuroscience. He is President of the American-Portuguese Biomedical Research Fund.
He was awarded the Ariëns Kappers Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U19 Brain Initiative Award (15.3 million dollars over five years). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is a Commander of the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada (2014) and received the silver medal from the Portuguese Ministry of Health (2014).
Neurologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Yale University School of Medicine, USA. He is the editor of Science-Based Medicine, a website dedicated to exploring science issues in medicine.
He is a neuroscientist at Stanford University and the author of international bestsellers such as «Incognito» and «The Sum of Everything». He is the co-founder of two venture-backed companies, Neosensory and BrainCheck, and also directs the Center for Science and Law, a national non-profit institute. He is best known for his work on sensory substitution, time perception, brain plasticity, synesthesia and neurolaw.
She has a degree in psychology from the University of Lisbon's FPCE, studied film studies at Lisbon's ESTC, worked for RTP and, as a director for SIC, attended a BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) course in TV Production.
She was a director for SIC from 1992 to 2002. Between 2002 and 2003 she completed the Advanced Programme in Political Journalism at the Institute of Political Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon. From 2004 to 2008, she was a documentaries advisor to RTP's Programme Direction. In March 2018, she unanimously received her PhD in contemporary history, specialising in empires, colonialism and post-colonialism, earning a distinction and praise for her work. In 2007, she was awarded the Lusophony Grand Prize for the documentary «The Prodigious Writer», a film about the life of Jorge de Sena, which she wrote and directed. In 2018 she was awarded the Fernando de Sousa prize by the European Commission for her work directing and co-authoring the screenplay for the 6-film documentary series Europa 30, shown on RTP2. In 2021 she premiered the documentary «Visions of Empire» at the DocLisboa festival, which she also directed and wrote.
He became Mayor of Braga in 2013, after working with the municipality since 2001, first as a member of the Municipal Assembly and then as a Councillor.
He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Board of the cross-border association of municipalities «Atlantic Axis of the Northwest Peninsula», Chairman of the Executive Board of the Intermunicipal Community of Cávado and Chairman of the Boards of Directors of the municipal companies Theatro Circo and InvestBraga. He is a member of the Executive Committee of EUROCITIES, the Executive Committee of the Global Parliament of Mayors, the Committee of the Regions and the board of ATP – Associação de Turismo do Porto.
He has a degree in economics from the Faculty of Economics of Porto and an Advanced Course in Political Studies from the IEP, Catholic University of Lisbon.
He was Secretary General of the Portuguese Association of Financial Analysts and director of the Euronext Lisbon Capital Markets Institute. For several years, he worked as a public and business consultant and Lecturer at Universidade Fernando Pessoa, ISAG – Instituto Superior de Administração e Gestão do Porto, Universidade Lusíada and IESF – Instituto Superior de Estudos Financeiros e Fiscais.
