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Holder of the Henry Semat Chair in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York, he has taught at CUNY School, Harvard and Princeton for several decades. He has specialised in Einstein's unified field theory (which he has been trying to complete) and in predicting trends in business, medicine, financial dynamics and our way of life in general. Co-author of string theory, Kaku's greatest ambition is to make Einstein's dream come true: to find a «theory of everything» that encapsulates all the physical laws of the universe. His many books include «The Future of Humanity», «Cyberspace», «The Future of the Mind», «The Physics of the Future» and «The Physics of the Impossible», all of which have been huge commercial successes . He regularly participates in television programmes and moderates science programmes on television and radio. The public face of the Science Channel, Michio Kaku also presented the BBC’s Visions of the Future, a documentary about the future of science, and a 12-part science series based on his best-selling book «The Physics of the Impossible», as well as regularly appearing on Fox News programmes. His articles have appeared in Time, New Scientist Magazine, Wired Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the Washington Post.

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.

Last updated: September 2024

He has been Director General of the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) since 1 September 2014. He is Professor of Nanotechnology at Lund University, Sweden, and founder of several Swedish companies working with nanotechnology. He is also President of the International Union for Vacuum Science, Technique and Applications (IUVSTA), which has more than 150,000 members from 32 countries. He is a member of the EC Executive High Level Group (HLG) at DG NMPB and Chairman of the Working Group of two European Technology Platforms: NANOFutures (European initiative for sustainable development through nanotechnologies) and EuMat (European platform for advanced engineering materials and technologies). Between 2003 and 2009, he was Dean of the Physics Department, Science and Engineering Faculties at Lund University and, between 2009 and 2011, he was director for the Öresund University and Öresund Science Region (ÖSR) initiative, a cross-border cooperation initiative between 11 universities and three regional authorities from two countries in the Öresund Region. He was Chairman of the Swedish Committee for Technical Standardisation in Nanotechnology from 2007 to 2014 and has written around 300 indexed international publications.

Last updated: October 2021

A journalist, he was Director of News at RTP and TVI, simultaneously editing and presenting Telejornal (RTP) and Jornal das 8 (TVI). He began his career in radio and, in 1992, was part of the team that founded the first private television station in Portugal, SIC, where he presented Jornal da Noite. He taught at the Escola Superior de Comunicação Social and co-coordinated the Postgraduate Course in Journalism at ISCTE/Media Capital. At the invitation of the President of the Republic, he inaugurated the programme «Journalists in Belém Palace» in 2018.

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.

A specialist in planetary astronomy, she is Researcher at the Colorado Space Science Institute and a renowned interpreter of NASA space mission photographs. She received her PhD from the Department of Planetary and Geological Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She was part of the team responsible for analysing the thousands of photographs and data sent by the Voyager II mission to the planet Uranus (1986) and Neptune (1989). She directed the imaging team of the Cassini-Huygens probe and the Central Imaging Laboratory of the Colorado Space Science Institute, as well as Diamond Sky Productions, a company dedicated to disseminating science and the artistic, graphic and computer processing of planetary images. She collaborates with publications such as The Guardian, American Scientist and The London Sunday Times. She was awarded the Isaac Asimov Prize and the Carl Sagan Medal. In 1998, Asteroid 7231 was renamed «Asteroid 7231 Porco» in her honour.

Leads the Foundation's Digital & Social Content Management team.
She coordinated the Digital Area and the Fronteiras XXI project, with a monthly debate program in a partnership with RTP, the national Portuguese television.
Joana Ferreira da Costa was a journalist between 1997 and 2016. She worked for 11 years at the daily newspaper «Público» writing about Science, Health Policies and Politics, having been a resident's reporter at Parliament. She then worked as a sub-editor at «Diário de Notícias» and at weekly newspaper «Sol».
She has a degree in Social and Cultural Communication from the Portuguese Catholic University.

Last update: march 2023

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».

Last updated: May 2024

Journalist, writer and commentator. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Russian History from Moscow State University (Lemonossov), where he went to live in 1977. He then devoted himself to the translation of literary and political works and in 1989 he began to report for TSF, having been the correspondent for the «Publico» newspaper in Moscow. He returned to Portugal in 2015. He is currently a commentator on SIC and SIC News, the «Observador» newspaper and Antena 1 radio. He has written several books, including «Russia and Europe: Part of the Whole», published by FFMS. He received the Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic in 2013.

Last updated: August 2023

He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.

Last updated: January 2017