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He has a Bachelor’s degree in Modern and Contemporary History and he is a writer, literary critic, translator and assistant editor at Ler magazine.
Born into a family of Jehovah’s Witnesses, but today «without religion», he wrote about the reality of religious minorities, almost unknown in Portugal, in his book «Alleluia».
His début novel, «The First Things», published by Quetzal in 2013, and he won the Fernando Namora Literary Prize, the Narrative Prize from the P.E.N. Club and the 2015 José Saramago Award.
He worked for DN Jovem, Atlântico magazine and the i newspaper, and he was also a communication advisor to the publishing houses in the Bertrand Círculo Group. He wrote the «Guide to 50 Portuguese Fiction Characters» (Guerra e Paz, 2013) and his second novel, “Today, You Will Be With Me In Paradise», received the Fiction Award 2016-2017 at the Literary Fiction Festival.
He works with the Observador newspaper and writes the Circo da Lama blog.

Visiting Assistant Professor at ISCSP-ULisboa, researcher and founding member of CIEG. His main interests are the sociology of the family, gender, intimate relationships and sexuality, and the planning and evaluation of policies in the field or with a gender impact. He participates in national and international research in these fields and is the author and co-author of articles and book chapters.

She has a PhD in Sociology and she is a full professor and coordinator of the Sociology Unit at the University of Lisbon Higher Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP). She founded and now runs the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (CIEG) at ISCSP. She has been a member of the team responsible for implementing the European Social Survey in Portugal since 2002.
She is an expert on subjects such as gender, family, marriage, divorce, work/family relations, the protection of children and young people, moral and sexual harassment and has set up several Master’s and postgraduate courses in these areas. Her research has served as the basis for legislative changes, such as the amendment to the divorce law or the changes relating to moral and sexual harassment.

She has been part of several international research networks under Framework Programmes 6, 7 and the European Commission's Horizon 2020. She was President of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2002-2006) and the European Sociological Association (2009-2011). She was on the European Research Council’s Institutions, values, beliefs and behaviour evaluation panel and has held a number of positions in the International Sociological Association. She has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency (A3ES) since 2020.

Last updated: May 2023

A sociologist with a PhD in Sociology of Education, she is an assistant professor in the Sociology department at the University of the Azores and a member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Sciences (CICS.Nova.UAçores and CICS.UAc). Her main research interests focus on the sociology of childhood and the sociology of education. She has carried out various research projects and published on the relationship between young people and education and the world of work.

Associate Professor and President of the Pedagogical Council of the Nova School of Business and Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has published research in academic journals such as the «Journal of International Economics», the «Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control», the «European Economic Review and the Economics of Education Review». She is the coordinator of the project «Determinants of school effectiveness: learning from the microdata of the Portuguese education system» with FCT funding under the 2014 call for scientific research projects. Previously, she had also coordinated the project «Efficiency of the education system and the evaluation and accountability system», also funded by the FCT.
She has a degree and PhD in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

With a PhD in Social Policy from the University of Bath (United Kingdom), he is currently an Assistant Professor of Economic Sociology at ISEG, Superior Institute of Economics and Management of the University of Lisbon and the Coordinator of ISEG's Policy Lab.
Previously, he worked as a researcher at Trinity College Dublin and Oslo Metropolitan University. Currently, he sits on the Board of ESPANET - European Social Policy Network.
He has written extensively on Social Policy related topics from the activation of minimum income beneficiaries to the impact of demographic ageing on the sustainability of pension systems. More recently, his research has focused on the social policy responses to COVID-19 and the inflationary crisis that followed. His work has been published in leading international scientific journals – including Social Policy & Administration, European Journal of Social Security, Journal of Population Aging and European Journal of Ageing - and with renowned publishers (Oxford University Press, Edward Elgar or Policy Press).
At the national level, Amílcar coordinated a study on the “Sustainability of the Portuguese Pension System” for the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation, and was part of the recent Commission for the Sustainability of Social Security.



Last updated: September 2025

Geographer, PhD in human geography and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he works on the integrated master's and PhD courses.
He is also a researcher at FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU). He has published extensively, including «Transgenic Landscapes» (Landscape Museum 2021), «Tour of Portugal» (Contraponto, Lisbon, 2017), «Common Home Territory» (with N. Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), «The Street of the Road» (Dafne, Porto, 2010), «Country Life» (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and «Urban Policies I and II» (with N. Portas and J. Cabral, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, 2003 and 2011) and «City and Democracy» (Argumentum, Lisbon, 2006). He writes regularly for the newspaper «Público».
He has a PhD in Human Geography from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.

Last updated: September 2022

Alice Ramos has a PhD in Social Sciences from Instituto de Ciências Sociais-Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa), with the thesis «Human Values and Opposition towards Immigration in Europe», where she analyses the impact of individual factors and social contexts on attitudes towards immigrants, on threat perceptions and on racial prejudice.
Currently, she is research fellow at the ICS-ULisboa. Her research interests are on the intersection of two lines of study: a) the impact of the articulation between individual factors (values and attitudes) and social structures on the development of discriminatory attitudes and prejudice, in a multilevel perspective; b) methodologies of trans-national and longitudinal studies. She recently started a line of research on the development of values and discriminatory attitudes in childhood and adolescence.
She is National Coordinator of the European Social Survey-ERIC and the European Values Study. At ICS-ULisboa, in 2009, she was co-founder of the Summer School on Advanced Methods in Data Analysis; between 2021 and 2023 she was a member of the Ethics Committee; currently, she is president of the Pedagogical Council and the Postgraduate Studies Committee.

Last update: June 2024

A specialist in Religious Sciences, he directs the Institute for the Study of Religion at the Catholic University, and is also a member of the Board of Directors and the Scientific Council of the School of Theology.
He has a PhD in Political Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Systematic Theology. He has dedicated his research to the analysis of Portuguese religious identities and institutions, new theories of religion and the study of religious aesthetic and cultural manifestations.
He is the coordinator of the Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos study «Religious Identities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area».
He participates in the coordination of the network of researchers "Religion in Multiple Modernities" and has directed a number of projects.
He is a member of the Ministry of Justice's Religious Freedom Commission and, in 2017, he was a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Congress for the Centenary of Fatima «Thinking Fatima: interdisciplinary readings».

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