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Sofia Guedes Vaz
Sofia Guedes Vaz is a professor, researcher and consultant in the area of Sustainability and Ethics.
From 2022 to 2024, she was head of the Bachelor’s degree programme in Environmental Engineering at Nova University in Cairo (Egypt). She has worked at public and private bodies, both national and international, in the field of the environment.
Sofia began her studies in Engineering, before moving on to Environmental Philosophy, which gives her an interdisciplinary insight into the analysis of sustainability issues.
She has published and edited books, scientific articles and book chapters, while also working in science communication and publishing works in the area of scientific dissemination, particularly the book «O Ambiente em Portugal», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: August 2025
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Paulo Nuno Vicente
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.
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John Gray
A political philosopher, he was professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and was a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale. He also taught Political Science in Oxford.
He is the author of several books, including «False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism» and «Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals». More recently, he published «Feline Philosophy» in 2021. He writes regularly for The Guardian and the New York Review of Books.


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Pedro Ferreira
An astrophysicist, he teaches at Oxford University. Researcher at the University of California (Berkeley) and at CERN (Geneva).
He has written for Nature, Science, Physics World, BBC Focus and The Guardian, as well as other renowned journals.
He has written several books. His latest, «The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity» has been published in over 20 countries.



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Nuno Ferrand
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.
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Ester Serrão
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