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Clinical and health psychologist. A psychotherapist, she is a full professor at the University of Lisbon School of Human Motricity. Coordinator of «G2 – Supportive Environments» at ISAMB. Member of the Association of Portuguese Psychologists (OPP) and coordinator of the EFPA Board of Promotion & Prevention for the OPP. National Coordinator of the WHO Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study.

Last updated: March 2021

She is an assistant professor at ISCTE-IUL and an integrated member of the Centre for Research and Social Intervention (CIS-IUL). She is the director of the Master's degree in Social Psychology of Health at ISCTE.
She has worked mainly in two areas: Psychology of the Environment and Psychology of Ageing. She has several publications with an impact on scientific journals and has worked on several national and international projects in the field of environmental psychology and ageing.
She wrote the essay «Discrimination Against the Elderly», published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. More recently, he served as an expert in the Global Report against Ageism with the World Health Organisation.

Last updated: February 2024

He got a Bachelor’s degree in Management at the University of Minho and, more than a decade later, in History at the University of Porto. He arrived on the blogosphere in 2017 and is the author of the book «The Portuguese blogosphere: from the Column of Infamy to the End of an Era», in the FFMS Portraits collection. He was born in Porto in September 1977.

Social psychologist, principal investigator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences (ICS-UL) and visiting professor at the School of Psychology, also in that university. He has a PhD in Social Psychology from ISCTE – IUL (2009) and did his postdoctoral studies in the Netherlands and Lisbon (ICS-UL).
He was president of the Portuguese Psychology Association (APP) between 2021 and 2023.
His research focuses on intergroup relations and socially relevant decisions for low-status groups.
He has published works in magazines such as the «European Journal of Social Psychology» and «Frontiers in Psychology».

Last updated: December 2023

Born in 1973, he has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a PhD in History of Ideas from FCSH-UNL. Besides working with Portuguese media, he has been a professor and a researcher and currently works as a political consultant. He directed the INCM Prelo magazine (3rd series) from 2005 to 2009 and published several books, such as «Extemporaneous Portugal» (2 vols, 2005). Recently, he wrote several entries in the «Dictionary of the History of Portugal» on the 1974-1976 period.

Last updated: October 2016

He graduated in social communication from the Catholic University and began his career as a journalist at «Jornal de Letras». He has worked as a scriptwriter since 1998. He was a founding member of «Gato Fedorento» along with Miguel Góis, Zé Diogo Quintela and Tiago Dores. He writes weekly for «Visão» magazine, the Brazilian daily «Folha de S. Paulo» and is one of the members of the TSF/TVI24 programmme «Shadow Government». He is the author and presenter of the SIC programme «This Is Making Fun of People Who Work».

In 2002, he created the group «The Republic of Ideas», which he chairs. In 1978, he took charge of the Sociology department at the Travail et Societé centre created by Jacques Delors at the University of Paris-Dauphine. Since 1978, he has been Professor at the École des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales and Director of Studies, a position he still holds. Since the 1990s, he has devoted himself to documenting the intellectual history of democracy in France. In 2001, he was appointed Professor at the Collège de France.

He was born in Lisbon in 1975. He has a Bachelor’s degree from the School of Communication and Media Studies, he worked on Canal Q, owned by Produções Fictícias, and is currently a scriptwriter and works on the RTP3 programme Last One Out Turns Off the Light. He is in charge of Communication at Cinema São Jorge and was a Communication Consultant at Booktailors. He works as a freelance illustrator and writes books as if there were no tomorrow.

Born in Massachusetts, he is the son of an Italian mother and a Canadian father. He attended university in Maine and Massachusetts (Amherst), and currently lives between Cape Cod and Hawaii. He has taught in Italy, Malawi, Uganda, Singapore and the UK. He has written dozens of novels, essays and some of the best travel books ever, such as «The Old Patagonian Express», «Ghost Train to the Orient», «Deep South and «The Great Railway Bazaar».

Assistant Professor at Nova University Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the European Union and coalition governments, subjects on which she has published articles in journals such as the European Journal of Public Policy, West European Politics and Party Politics. She has written "Coalition Government and Party Mandate: How coalition agreements constrain ministerial action" (Routledge, 2012) and "Changing rules of delegation: A contest of Power for comitology" (with A. Héritier, C. Bisschoff and C-F. Bergström, Oxford University Press, 2012). Her article "Explaining the European Parliament's Right to Appoint and Invest the Commission: Interstitial institutional change", published in West European Politics in 2007, was awarded the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize and the Gulbenkian Prize for the Internationalisation of Social Sciences. Among other subjects, she teaches Comparative Political Systems and European Union Institutions.

Last updated: May 2014