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He is a member of the Luso-Brazilian Philosophy Institute, and of the Centre for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA) at the University of Lisbon School Fine Arts, where he is an assistant professor. He teaches Aesthetics, History of Contemporary Art, Theory and History of Sculpture and Theory of Contemporary Art. He has written several books.

Last updated: November 2023

Professor of Digital Media at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences, where he founded and coordinates INOVA Media Lab, a research and development laboratory working in the areas of immersive and interactive narrative, the social impact of Artificial Intelligence, web platforms and social media, innovation and digital transformation, information visualisation and science communication. He coordinates the Master’s degree in New Media and Web Practices and is part of the Council of Europe's group of experts on Artificial Intelligence and Education. He is the author of several scientific articles and book chapters published internationally. He was awarded the German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship (2016) and the Calouste Gulbenkian – Knowledge Award (2019), for co-coordinating the scientific dissemination programme 90 Seconds of Science.

Science journalist. He spent most of his career at Público newspaper, as a journalist, editor, editor-in-chief and deputy editor. Between 2010 and 2014, he was multimedia editor at RTP. He became a lecturer at Nova University Lisbon in 2006, coordinating the Master’s degrees in Science Communication and Journalism.

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

PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, UK (1983). Since 2012, he has been a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science (DCC) at the University of Porto School of Sciences (FCUP). He was Vice-Rector of the University of Porto with responsibility for the Digital University, Quality and Continuous Improvement. In 2007, he founded and led CRACS, an FCT unit rated Very Good, until 2018, becoming an integrated unit of INESC TEC in 2014. He has led the Authenticus project since 2010.

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.