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He has a Bachelor's degree in History and a Master’s degree in Political Science. He is a columnist at the «Expresso». He has worked at the «Público», «Diário de Notícias» and «Independente» newspapers and was editor of «Atlantico» magazine. He has written several books.

Last updated: November 2023

Professor of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra. He was Secretary of State for Higher Education between 2011 and 2013, President of the Mathematics Centre at the University of Coimbra and a member of the board of the International Linear Algebra Society. He is an associate editor for three international mathematical research journals. He has written several articles and books on mathematical research, the history of mathematics and educational policies in Portugal.

Last updated: November 2017

He is a consultant specialising in institutional and crisis communication and has worked with several companies, institutions and personalities. Previously, he was the culture editor in the Semanario, Se7e and Independente newspapers.

Last updated: March 2018

Associate professor at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences, professor in the Department of Sociology and coordinator of the Master’s degree and PhD in Human Ecology. She is an integrated researcher at CICS.NOVA, author of the essay «Food Waste», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, a member of the Advisory Panel of the National Committee on Combating Food Waste and president of the Society for Human Ecology.

Last updated: September 2019

Journalist for the «Público» in Porto. She has worked at the «24 Horas», «O Comércio do Porto» and the «Jornal de Letras» newspapers. She has also been published in «Grande Reportagem», «Visão» and «Sábado» magazines. She has a Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences from Nova University Lisbon.

Last updated: January 2024

She has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and enjoys being alive so much that she finds herself thinking of death quite frequently. Over the years, she has read a lot about the subject, which continues to intrigue her. She also has many other interests, ranging from literary translation to traditional typography. This is her fourth book, with other books in the works.

Last updated: October 2018

He has a PhD in History from the Lusíada University of Lisbon and he is a researcher at the Institute of Medieval Studies at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences, where he also teaches on the Bachelor’s and Master’s degree courses.
His research focuses on the use of heraldic images as a form of self-representation and social and political communication, from a diachronic perspective from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Age.
He has taken part in several funded research projects and coordinated the project «In the Service of the Crown. The Use of Heraldry in Royal Political Communication in Late Medieval Portugal».
He has more than a hundred publications in the area of heraldry and his latest books include: «Heraldry in Contact: Perspectives and Challenges of a Connective Image Form» (2023), «State-Rooms of Royal and Princely Palaces, 14th-16th Centuries: Spaces, Images, Rituals» (2022), «Devises, lettres, chiffres et couleurs: un code emblématique, 1350-1550» (2022), and «Shields and Castles, Signs of Portugal» (2019) and «Emblems of Portugal» (2024), the last two published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: November 2024

She is a journalist. She started on local radio and in newspapers, working for the Público newspaper since 2005. In 2014, inspired by the connections between her municipality (Ílhavo) and cod fishing, she launched her first book, «Till the Sea Do Us Part». She was born in 1976, grew up near the river and it is also near its banks, in the place that Eça de Queiros described as «one of the most delicious spots on the globe», where she lives.

Last updated: August 2021

Associate professor and researcher at the School of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon, in the fields of Urban Politics and Governance, Urban Management and Administration, Urban and Regional Planning.
Commissioner for the Strategic Chart of Lisbon (2009-2010).
He's the author and co-author of five books and coordinated five more.

Last update: june 2025

Born in Rio de Moinhos – Aljustrel in 1952, he went to secondary school in Aljustrel, Faro and Lisbon, where he lived (in Moscavide), worked and studied from the age of 16. He went to ISCTE-IUL from 1981 to 1985, when he completed his Bachelor’s degree in Sociology and joined the University of Coimbra School of Economics as an assistant, before also joining the team at the Centre for Social Studies in the same university. Since then, he has taught, done research and published on subjects such as classes and social inequalities, the sociology of business and labour relations, trade unionism, youth and social movements. He got his PhD at the University of Coimbra in 1999, with a thesis on the footwear industry, based on participant observation in a factory in the sector (published under the title Between the Factory and the Community, published by Afrontamento, 2000).