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She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Genspace, a non-profit community laboratory dedicated to promoting science and access to biotechnology for the public. Her efforts to make Genspace a centre for entrepreneurship, innovation and citizen science have been documented by the media in publications such as Nature Medicine, Science, Discover Magazine, Wired, Make, BBC News, Dan Rather Reports, PBS News Hour, The Discovery Channel and The New York Times. She holds a PhD in Molecular Biology from New York University, worked for several years in the biotechnology industry and is currently Adjunct Professor at New York Medical College, Scientist-in-Residence at the School of Visual Arts, and Visiting Professor at The Cooper Union. She frequently mentors teams participating in DNA-based scientific competitions, such as iGEM and the Urban Barcode Project.

Last updated: June 2015

He is a journalist and researcher with a focus on the intersection of technology, culture and power. Since Portuguese newspapers began to pay attention to the digital, he has been creative director of the «Observador», deputy director of the «Público», director of the «Forum» and columnist in the «Eco».
He is Director of Innovation at Global Media, a group that includes the «Diário de Notícias», TSF and the «Jornal de Notícias».
He currently teaches Innovation and Strategy at Nova University Lisbon.

Photo: © Hugo Amaral

Last updated: September 2023

Scientist, best-selling author, speaker and consultant on new perspectives on technology and the future. He is the author of the novel «The Postman» (filmed in 1997 in Portugal as "The Postman: O Mensageiro») and the author of the Hugo Award-winning novels «Startide Rising and The Uplift War», as well as many others. He is a leading commentator and speaker on contemporary trends and his non-fiction book «The Transparent Society» was awarded the Freedom of Speech Award by the American Library Association. His latest novel, «Existence» explores a big question: there are billions of planets capable of supporting life. So where is everyone? The book is a reflection on questions such as: how will we build the days and years to come – and how will we be shaped by the future?


Last updated: June 2015

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

He is a journalist. He directed the «Meios & Publicidade» newspaper and the news office at the Impala group. He was coordinator at the «24 horas» and «Sol» newspapers. He worked at the Lusa press agency, the «Expresso» newspaper and «Sábado», «Superjovem», «Pais & Filhos» magazines, among others. He has published several books.

Last updated: January 2024

A Portuguese neuroscientist, he is the CEO and president of the Allen Institute in the US. Previously, he headed the world’s largest brain research centre, the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behaviour Institute, in the US. He is a professor at Columbia University in New York. He researches the neurobiology of action in health and disease. His laboratory uses approaches from genetics, electrophysiology, optics and behaviour to investigate the mechanisms that underlie action activation and action learning. His findings have led to new hypotheses about the mechanisms underlying the creation of movement and motor dysfunction in Parkinson's disease.
He graduated from the University of Lisbon in 1996 and started the GABBA programme (Graduate Programme in Areas of Basic and Applied Biology) at the University of Porto the following year. He did post-doctoral studies with Alcino Silva at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) and then post-doctoral work with Miguel Nicolelis at Duke University.
He was director of Champalimaud Research and deputy director and researcher of the Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme. In 2012, he became an international early career scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and received the Young Researcher Award from the Society for Neuroscience. He is President of the American-Portuguese Biomedical Research Fund.
He was awarded the Ariëns Kappers Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the U19 Brain Initiative Award (15.3 million dollars over five years). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine. He is a Commander of the Order of Sant'Iago da Espada (2014) and received the silver medal from the Portuguese Ministry of Health (2014).

Last updated: june 2026

Inês Lopes Gonçalves is a radio and television host. On the radio she is currently one of Rádio Renascença's «As Três da Manhã», and on television she hosts the talk show «Traz Pr'á Frente» on RTP and RTP Memória.
She has been one of the faces of the Festival da Canção since 2017. She began her career in information as a journalist at Rádio Renascença, worked for Sport Tv, Canal Q and collaborated with Time Out, Sábado and Expresso magazines.

Última atualização: janeiro de 2022

Full professor, retired, in the Department of Informatics at the University of Lisbon School of Sciences. Founder of the Portuguese chapter of «Internet Society». He has played an active role in the implementation of the internet in Portugal since the 1980s.
He was a member of the Information Society Mission Team, manager of the Information Society programme, president of the National Scientific Computing Foundation (FCCN), coordinator of the National Cybersecurity Centre and also a researcher at INESC.
He has written several scientific works and the book «Cibersecurity», published by FFMS.

Last updated: July 2024

Director of publications and member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee, António Araújo was born in Lisbon in 1966. He obtained a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in law at the University of Lisbon and holds a PhD in contemporary history from the Catholic University of Portugal. He was a teacher at the Faculty of Law and teaches now at NOVA FCSH. He is adviser to the Constitutional Court, in unpaid leave, and was consultant to the President of the Republic for political affairs. He is the author of several books and articles in political science, constitutional law and contemporary history. He represents FFMS on the Board of the Portuguese Foundation Center.

Geneticista e investigador na University College London (UCL) é também apresentador de programas de rádio e televisão e autor de vários livros sobre ciência, religião e cinema. No Institute of Child Health da UCL, integrou um projeto de investigação sobre o papel da retina na identificação da base genética de um tipo de cegueira, tendo-se doutorado com uma tese nessa área. Para a BBC, concebeu e apresentou programas como «The Cell on the History of Biology», «Playing God», «The Gene Code» e «Science Betrayed», entre muitos outros. Em «Creation: The Origin of Life & The Future of Life», obra nomeada para o Wellcome Trust Book Prize, defende a teoria de que a vida poderá não ter surgido no «caldo primordial» e debruça-se sobre questões ligadas à biologia sintética, isto é, à modificação dos genes por ação humana e à criação de novos organismos para fins terapêuticos ou industriais. Mais recentemente, publicou «A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes» e «The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us».

Última atualização: novembro de 2019