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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».

Last updated: November 2020

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.

Last updated: November 2020

Co-author of the book «The Science of Youth» (Elsinore, 2017). A psychologist who studies ageing and obesity, she directs the Center for Aging, Metabolism and Emotions at the University of California, San Francisco.

Last updated: November 2020

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.

Last updated: June 2023

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.

Last updated: September 2013

Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Sciences, Catholic University of Portugal, and an integrated researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Health, where she promotes the working group Mind, Brain and Education. She is an education psychologist, has a PhD in Health Sciences and co-authored «When your Son’s Brain goes to School» (2017) and «Neuromyths» (2020). She has allied research and the dissemination of transdisciplinary science.

He was Professor of Physical Chemistry at Oxford University from 1965 until his retirement in 2007. His research focused on theoretical chemistry and magnetic resonance, but his interest eventually turned to writing. He published over 70 books, including university textbooks and science books for the general public. His best-known book for general readers is Atkins’ «Physical Chemistry», which is now in its eleventh edition and used all over the world. Atkins continues to give lectures and is an active proponent of various humanist and secular associations. In 2016, he received an award from the American Chemical Society for communicating chemistry to the public.

Last updated: November 2018

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.

Last updated: November 2023

Anthropologist from the University of Coimbra. She is Director of the Institute of Legal Medicine in Lisbon and author of the book «How We Became Human».

Last updated: October 2019