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.
An anti-fascist activist in his youth (see Waiting for Godinho, Editora Bizâncio, 2009), José Carlos Junça de Morais was exiled in Brussels with UN political refugee status from 1968 to 1974. He has a PhD in Psychological Sciences from the Free University of Brussels (ULB) and he was a full professor at that university, Director of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, Dean of the School of Psychological Sciences and Education, Chairman of the Committee of Psychological Sciences at the Royal Academy of Belgium and a member of the National Reading Observatory (France). He is a doctor honoris causa at the University of Lisbon, a specialist in the cognitive psychology of reading and has published about 150 articles in international scientific journals. He is now an emeritus professor and continues to take part in scientific research within the framework of the Unité de Recherche en Neurosciences Cognitives at the ULB Institut de Neurosciences. He has done a lot of work to promote reading, such as publishing books, participating in a report presented to the Education and Culture Commission of the Brazilian parliament in 2003, directing a psycholinguistic study on learning to read and write in Portugal within the framework of the National Reading Plan, and helping to draw up the curricular goals for Portuguese, approved by the Ministry of Education and Science in 2012. He has published three works of fiction. He is an emeritus professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles.
He has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and a PhD in Chemistry from Oxford University, he has worked in science and in the arts. IST professor of physics and chemistry and associate professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University (USA), he has devoted himself to the thermodynamics of molecular liquids and has taught more than one hundred PhD courses (direct and secondary). In 2011 (International Year of Chemistry), he published «Let There Be Light – A History of Chemistry Through Everything». He founded and directed the first courses in Portugal on the management of the arts at the National Institute of Administration. A cultural critic at the Expresso newspaper, he started the National Photography Collection and has curated more than twenty photography exhibitions in Portugal, Belgium, France, England and the USA.
He is a researcher at the University of Lisbon, where he returned after a long career by universities in Spain, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He was responsible for the creation of the Coa Archaeological Park and its classification as World Heritage, and for the discovery of the «Lapedo Child». He was founder and director of the Portuguese Institute of Archaeology. The humanised image we have of neanderthals today is largely due to the results of the research that he conducted or fostered in deposits in Portugal, Spain and Romania.
She was born in Angola on 10 June 1957. She got her PhD in Law (Constitutional Law) at the University of Lisbon School of Law. She is an ombudswoman and professor at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon, with aggregation in legal and political sciences.
She has devoted her teaching and research career to the areas of constitutional law. She also teaches subjects such as comparative public law, fundamental rights and constitutional justice.
She was a judge in the Constitutional Court between April 2007 and July 2016, an institution of which she was vice-president between October 2012 and July 2016.
A member of several international scientific associations (including the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law and the International Association of Constitutional Law), she has written a number of various works on her area of expertise since 1984.
She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».
