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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

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

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.

BPI / «La Caixa» Foundation professor of Health Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics, Nova University Lisbon. He is on the EC Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health, the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences, the EU Cancer Mission Board and the National Health Council and is a member of the board of the Institute of Public Policy – Thomas Jefferson – Correia da Serra.

Last updated: May 2013

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.

She was born in Portalegre in 1977. She is a professor at the University of Lisbon School of Arts and Humanities. She was Beaufort visiting scholar at St John's College at the University of Cambridge in 2017. She wrote «The Ordeals of Interpretation» (IUC, 2020), «The Unteaching of Art (in press)», and co-edits the poetry and review website Flower Games. She began researching adoption a few years ago and decided to share what she learned in this book and on the www.adoptareacolher.pt website

She was born in Angola on 10 June 1957. She got her PhD in Law (Constitutional Law) at the University of Lisbon School of Law. She is an ombudswoman and professor at the Nova School of Law in Lisbon, with aggregation in legal and political sciences.
She has devoted her teaching and research career to the areas of constitutional law. She also teaches subjects such as comparative public law, fundamental rights and constitutional justice.
She was a judge in the Constitutional Court between April 2007 and July 2016, an institution of which she was vice-president between October 2012 and July 2016.
A member of several international scientific associations (including the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law and the International Association of Constitutional Law), she has written a number of various works on her area of expertise since 1984.

Last updated: September 2024

She has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in demography, from the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences. She is a coordinating professor at the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute, where she coordinates the Master’s degree in Social Gerontology and Age.Comm – Interdisciplinary Research Unit – Functional Ageing Communities. She has taken part in national and international projects and published in the areas of regional demography, ageing, migration and health.

Paediatrician, professor of Paediatrics at the Lisbon School of Medicine and advisor to the National Council of Ethics for Life Sciences. She was president of Infarmed, director of the Paediatrics Department at Hospital de Santa Maria, clinical director at the Lisbon North University Hospital Centre, High Commissioner for Health, president of the National Commission for Maternal Health, Children and Adolescents, president of the College of Paediatrics at the Portuguese Medical Association and part of the Birth Commission and the Working Group for the Child Agenda. She has trained in Neonatology and Management of Health Institutions.

She has been a doctor since 1985. She has devoted herself to palliative care (CP) for over 25 years. She was president of the Portuguese Palliative Care Association. She is director of the CP Unit at Hospital da Luz-Lisboa, a professor at the Lisbon School of Medicine and the Catholic University. She chairs the Palliative Medicine area at the Portuguese Medical Association. She believes that it has been a privilege to work in this area and has already cared for more than 6,000 patients and their families. She was a member of the Portuguese parliament for 10 years.. She has been a Commander of the Order of Merit since 2004.