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Social scientist, assistant professor at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP) and researcher at the Centre for Administration and Public Policy (CAPP), where she coordinates the Society, Communication and Culture research group. She teaches on the undergraduate degree in Social Work and the Master's degree and PhD programmes in Social Policy at ISCSP. She was executive coordinator of the Master's degree course in Social Policy. Her research interests lie in the areas of welfare and social policy, focusing in particular on poverty, income adequacy and minimum income policies.

Degree in Psychology and Master’s degree in Sociology from ISCSP-ULisboa. Research fellow at CIEG, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, ISCSP, ULisboa.

She holds a PhD in Geography and Spatial Planning and she is a principal investigator at the Centre for Geographical Studies and a professor at the Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning at the University of Lisbon. Her interests focus on sustainable urban development, regional, urban and local planning, urban geography and the evaluation of public policies. She has taught Public Policy Assessment Methodologies and Spatial Planning on undergraduate and Master’s degree courses.

Last updated: November 2023

Researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL) and Professor at ISCTE-IUL. In 2016, she received the award for best doctoral thesis from the Portuguese Political Science Association (2014-2016) for her research Explaining Party System Institutionalisation in Africa: From a Broad Comparison to a Focus on Mozambique and Zambia. Her research interests include political parties and party systems, democratisation, institutions and political attitudes in new democracies, with a focus on Africa. Her articles have been published in journals such as Parliamentary Affairs, Electoral Studies, Acta Politica, South European Society and Politics, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Análise Social; and she has written book chapters for publishers such as Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, Almedina and Routledge.

Invited Assistant Professor at ISCSP-ULisboa and researcher and founding member of CIEG, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies. PhD student in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL. She researches gender equality, youth, drug addiction and longitudinal studies. She has presented papers at national and international conferences and published articles and books on these topics.

He has a PhD in Biochemistry from Nova University Lisbon (UNL), and has devoted himself to science communication for 27 years. Between 2015 and 2019, he managed Ciência Viva – National Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, whose mission is to promote experimental science education and scientific dissemination. During these four years he also coordinated the GPS – Global Portuguese Scientists – project, a social media network that tells us where Portuguese scientists emigrated to and the type of scientific research they are doing outside Portugal. He wrote books such as «Pseudoscience» and «Portuguese Scientists», both published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. He has created several plays and television programmes on scientific topics. He won the «Young Chemicals» and «Green Ideas» awards in 2010. He was the author of Public Enemy and a science journalist at the Público newspaper, a publication he continues to work with as a columnist. He is co-commissioner of the Science and Education Month for Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: May 2020

She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Minho and a Master’s degree in Social Psychology from the University of Coimbra. She is a researcher at the Centre for Social Research and Intervention (CIS, ISCTE-IUL) and the Centre for Research in Economic and Organisational Sociology (SOCIUS/CSG – ISEG) at the University of Lisbon.
She is a member of the INHERIT team, a European project that aims to contribute to academic and social reflection on ageing, social inequalities and health, stimulating policies, practices and innovations that promote change in these areas.
In her PhD project, she focused on the health and well-being of the ageing population in Portugal and Europe. As a guest researcher, she worked with the Centre of Welfare Studies in Slovenia, the European Data Laboratory for Comparative Social Research and the Munich Centre for the Economics of Ageing, both in Germany. She was also involved in the European Education Policies project, focusing on the process of lifelong learning and developed by the Education and Development Research Unit at Nova University Lisbon. She also works with the Inequalities Observatory.

Assistant Professor at ISCSP-ULisboa, where she has taught since 1996. She has a PhD in Sociology of the Family, a Master's degree in Sociology, a postgraduate degree in Criminal Sciences and a Bachelor’s degree in Social Policy from ISCSP. She is co-coordinator and co-founder of CIEG. She coordinates and has participated in several research projects with national and international funding.

He holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Goethe University in Germany and he is a full professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra (UC), where he has held various management positions. He founded and directed the Centre for Computational Physics, where he installed the largest and fastest Portuguese supercomputer for scientific calculation. He is the director of UC's Rómulo Ciência Viva Centre and one of Portugal's most important science communicators, with books, textbooks and hundreds of articles published. He has lectured at universities in Brazil and the USA and he was scientific coordinator of the "Knowledge" area of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos and a member of the Scientific Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology. He chaired the regional board of the Portuguese Physics Society, through which he promoted scientific experimentation activities for school laboratories, created the "Mocho" portal for teaching and promoting science and was a consultant for television programmes. He is a member of the International Forum of Portuguese Researchers. Distinguished with the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator and the Golden Globe for Merit and Excellence in Science (2005), he also received the Ciência Viva Grand Prize (2017) and the José Mariano Gago Award from SPA (2018).

Last updated: November 2019

An economist and Associate Professor at the Higher Institute of Economics and Management (ISEG). He is a consultant at the National Statistics Institute (INE) in the area of household statistics.
His research focuses on microeconomics, income distribution, poverty and inequality, and public policy evaluation. He is the author of several studies on poverty and inequality in Portugal, as well as on the effectiveness of social policies.
He was President of the Institute of Public Policy from 2015 to 2020. He was a member of the Coordination Committee for drawing up the National Strategy to Fight Poverty.
He holds a PhD from the Technical University of Lisbon under the supervision of Tony Atkinson (Oxford University), with the thesis «Income Distribution, Inequality and Poverty: Portugal in the 1990s».