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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

Nuno Crato is Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Lisbon, having taught in Lisbon, Azores and the United States. His research work is focused on time series for financial, biological and computational applications. He is a Visiting Scientist at the JRC Centre, in Italy, where he analyses the impact of policy measures based on micro-data. He was the President of the International Symposium on Forecasting (2000), Coordinator and President of the Cemapre Research Centre (2006-2010), President of the Portuguese Mathematical Society (2004-2010) and President (CEO) of the Taguspark -- Science and Technology Park (2010-2011). From 2011 to 2015, he was the Portuguese Minister for Education and Science. A prolific science communicator and intervener in education, he has published books in several languages and countries, including the United Kingdom, Italy and Brazil. For his works, he received prestigious awards from the European Mathematical Society and the European Commission. He was awarded the title of Commander and Grand Cross of the Order of Infante D. Henrique.

Retired secondary school teacher of Romance languages, Portuguese and French. She coordinated the publication of «I Pass by yet I Stay, like the Universe», with Rui Mario Gonçalves, a book on painting influenced by Pessoa. She also wrote «About Fernando Pessoa – Drama Pessoa’s People and Wanderings in Lisbon» and «Art, the Master of Life». She coordinated the fixing of the text of «Eastern Ethiopia and Stories of Noteworthy Things of the East» by Friar João dos Santos (National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries, 1999). He has published numerous articles on the teaching of Portuguese in daily and weekly newspapers. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Romance Philology and a Master's degree in Travel Literature.

Last updated: January 2024

Full professor of Medical Ethics at the University of Lisbon School of Medicine and obstetrician and gynaecologist at Santa Maria Hospital. He was the first elected president of the National Council for Ethics in Life Sciences (2009-2015), he is coordinator of three projects on sexual and reproductive health in the European Union (2003-2010) and was elected vice-president of the Bioethics department of the Council of Europe (2018-2019). He has published very widely on bioethics issues.

He is a research economist in the Department of Economic Studies (area of structural studies) at the Bank of Portugal and a visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is a member of the research unit of CATÓLICA-LISBON, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labour, GLO – Global Labour Organisation and Iniciativa Educação. He has a PhD in Economics from UCL – University College London and was a short-term consultant at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. His research topics include human capital, the economics of education, programme evaluation, the labour market, microeconometrics and economic development. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including the International Economic Review, Labour Economics and the Journal of Population Economics.

Bruno Cardoso Reis holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College and a Master’s degree in Contemporary History from the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. He was deputy director of the Centre for International Studies at Iscte-IUL, where he teaches and directs the PhD in History and Security and Defence Studies, in partnership with the Military Academy. He was deputy to the Minister of National Defence (2019-2022). He was a guest professor at the Institute of Political Studies at UCP and, in the 2024-25 academic year, he was a FLAD guest professor at Georgetown University in Washington, where he's currently a non-resident researcher. He has published several articles and books, including the essay "Can Portugal have a Strategy?" (2019) published by Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos.

Last updated: september 2025

She is a writer, teacher, literary critic and communicator. She has worked in the dissemination of Books and Literature in the press and on television for 30 years, at dissemination events and writing workshops and tutoring.
Currently, she is editor of «Ler» magazine, she writes literary criticism in the «Sol» newspaper, coordinates and teaches a post-graduate degree in fiction writing at Universidade Lusófona, she is responsible for the communication of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos essays and portraits, part of the communication office of ULS Médio Tejo, coordinates the Dom Luis I Foundation programme of International Writing Residences and is on the Cultural Council of the Eça de Queiroz Foundation.
She is the author of the novel «This Is My Body», translated into seven languages, of the reportage book «The Last Sailors» (FFMS) and of a «Sentimental Dictionary of Adultery».

Last updated: May 2024

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

She has a PhD and she is Professor of Special Education at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Her main interests are teacher training and technology support for science-based reading instruction. Her courses, according to the International Dyslexia Association, are among the top nine in the United States for meeting the Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading.

Last updated: March 2022

Full Professor at the School of Economics and Management (EEG) of the University of Minho. She has a PhD in Management from Warwick Business School, UK, and a degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Aveiro. She was Professor at the University of Aveiro and an advisor to the President of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) and the Office of Studies and Analysis of the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES).
She is Lead Researcher at the Higher Education Policy Research Centre.