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He is a member of the Luso-Brazilian Philosophy Institute, and of the Centre for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA) at the University of Lisbon School Fine Arts, where he is an assistant professor. He teaches Aesthetics, History of Contemporary Art, Theory and History of Sculpture and Theory of Contemporary Art. He has written several books.

Last updated: November 2023

Professor of Digital Media at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences, where he founded and coordinates INOVA Media Lab, a research and development laboratory working in the areas of immersive and interactive narrative, the social impact of Artificial Intelligence, web platforms and social media, innovation and digital transformation, information visualisation and science communication. He coordinates the Master’s degree in New Media and Web Practices and is part of the Council of Europe's group of experts on Artificial Intelligence and Education. He is the author of several scientific articles and book chapters published internationally. He was awarded the German Marshall Fund of the United States Fellowship (2016) and the Calouste Gulbenkian – Knowledge Award (2019), for co-coordinating the scientific dissemination programme 90 Seconds of Science.

A political philosopher, he was professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics and was a visiting professor at Harvard and Yale. He also taught Political Science in Oxford.
He is the author of several books, including «False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism» and «Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals». More recently, he published «Feline Philosophy» in 2021. He writes regularly for The Guardian and the New York Review of Books.

An astrophysicist, he teaches at Oxford University. Researcher at the University of California (Berkeley) and at CERN (Geneva).
He has written for Nature, Science, Physics World, BBC Focus and The Guardian, as well as other renowned journals.
He has written several books. His latest, «The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity» has been published in over 20 countries.

He has been a journalist since 1988 in the fields of the environment, science and data journalism. He is the author of the books "Sobre a Terra", an environmental guide, and "Nós no Mundo", about sustainability.

Last updated: January 2017

Professor at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Nova University Lisbon (FCSH/UNL), she has a PhD in Sociology, specialising in Demography. She was director of PORDATA – Database of Contemporary Portugal, a project of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, where she also coordinated the scientific area of Population. She has held management positions in various public bodies in the Ministries of Education and Science, Technology and Higher Education. She is a member of the Statistical Council and a member of the Executive Board of the European Statistical Advisory Committee. She is the author and coordinator of numerous published studies on Portuguese society, including "Portugal and Europe: the numbers", "Ageing of Portuguese Society", "Immigrant contributions to Portuguese demography: the role of foreign nationality populations" and "Being born in Portugal" (multimedia work), among others.

Last updated: February 2019