Speakers
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ALEXANDRE LIMA |
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Alexandre Lima got a PhD in Economic Geology from the University of Porto in co-tutorship with University of Lorraine (Nancy), France in the year 2000 with a topic on lithium deposits in the Northern Portugal, and since then he has coordinated in Portugal, several projects in the area of lithium, gold and associated metals. He has been an Associate Professor since 2020, currently responsible for the Master's Degree in Geology at the Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Planning at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. His main project today is GREENPEG, which is concerned with improving tools in Europe to find metals that fuel the energy transition such as lithium, silica, tin, tantalum, etc.
FCUP - Dep. Geoscience, Environment and Land Planning, Faculty of Science of the University of Porto |
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ANA MOREIRA |
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Ana Moreira describes herself as a happy woman.
SPMI - Portuguese Society of Integrative Medicine |
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CECÍLIA ROQUE |
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Cecília Roque is an Associate Professor with Habilitation in Bioengineering and head of the Biomolecular Engineering Lab at the School of Science and Technology, NOVA University of Lisbon. She is UCIBIO Director since February 2023. Cecilia holds a degree in Chemical Engineering (Major in Biotechnology) and a PhD in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico. Cecília has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge and at the Catholic University of America, a Post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Biotechnology (University of Cambridge) and at INESC-MN (Lisbon, Portugal), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, University of Nantes, University of São Paulo, City University of New York and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She is active in several national (Biotechnology Portuguese Society and Biophysics Portuguese Society) international scientific societies (European Federation of Biotechnology and International Society for Molecular Recognition). Her research focus on biomimetics merging chemistry, biotechnology and engineering, and her work has been merited with several national and international distinctions. She has been awarded Starting and Proof-of-concept grants from the European Research Council (2014, 2022), and is currently leading a FET-OPEN project.
UCIBIO - Applied Molecular Biosciences Research Unit |
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DANIEL CATALÃO |
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Daniel Catalão is a journalist and news presenter at RTP, specialized in technology and the internet, and author of the TecNet program. He has a PhD in Digital Media from FEUP-Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto and is an assistant professor at the University of Maia, where he coordinates the Communication Sciences course.
RTP - Rádio e Televisão de Portugal |
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DUARTE TORRES |
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Duarte Paulo Martins Torres holds a PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering and Sciences from the University of Minho since 2010. In 2005, he obtained a master's degree in Biotechnology - Bioprocess Engineering at the same university. In 2000, he obtained a degree in nutritional sciences from the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto (FCNAUP). Since 2010, he has been an Assistant professor at FCNAUP, where he teaches the curricular units of Food Toxicology and Risk Assessment, Innovation and Composition of Food and Meals. He is a researcher at ISPUP – Public Health Institute of the University of Porto, where he has coordinated and participated in several research projects funded by national and international entities. He is the author of more than 60 articles in international journals. His activity aims to contribute to the collaborative development of solutions that respond to the most urgent needs of a sustainable agri-food system concerning logistics, production, transformation and preparation of safe and nutritious food that meets the needs and expectations of consumers. Between 2017 and 2021, he was co-founder of SnoodFoods, a company specialized in producing healthy snacks based on legumes.
FCNAUP - Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences of the University of Porto |
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FILIPE PORTELA |
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Carlos Filipe Portela was born in Trofa, Portugal and went to the University of Minho in Guimarães, where he studied information systems and obtained his academic degrees in 2007 (Lic), 2009 (MSc) and 2013 (PhD). Filipe Portela holds a PhD in Information Systems and Technologies. He is an integrated researcher at Research Centre ALGORITMI, where he developed his post-doctoral research work on the topic "Pervasive Intelligent Decision Support Systems". His research started in the INTCare R&D project (Intensive Medicine area), then extended to other areas like education, public administration, industry and smart cities. He already has many relevant indexed publications in the main research topics: Knowledge Discovery, Data Science, Gamification, Intelligent Systems and Pervasive Data. He is also (co)organizer of several conferences and workshops, (co) editor of journals and books and reviewer of many indexed journals, books and conferences on these topics. Currently, he is also an Invited Assistant Professor of the Information Systems Department, School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal, where he supervises several master students in the areas mentioned above. Filipe Portela found IOTech - Innovation on Technology in 2018. He is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chief Innovation and Research Officer (CIRO) of IOTech, where he is transferring and applying their scientific knowledge for the benefit of the citizens and companies.
AC-UM - Algoritmi Centre, University of Minho, Portugal | IOTECH- Innovation on Technology, Portugal |
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JOÃO PAULO GOMES |
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João Paulo Gomes (JPG) obtained the PhD degree in 2006 in Biology, under the collaboration of Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (California, USA) with the Portuguese National Institute of Health (INSA). He works in the field of microbial genomics and is the Head of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Unit at INSA. He was designated by the Ministry of Health as the national coordinator of the genetic surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is also the national coordinator of the genomic surveillance of the mpox virus on behalf of the multi-country mpox outbreak. He published more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific papers, including in high impact journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Medicine and Nature Microbiology. JPG has been a member of the evaluation panel of multiple International funding programs, and is the PI of a current European Project aiming at strengthening the Portuguese capacity for genomic surveillance of infectious diseases. JPG was the main supervisor of more than 10 PhD students.
INSA - National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge Institutional Webpage |
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JORGE FERREIRA |
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Jorge Pinto Ferreira is a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, originally from Portugal, with five years of clinical experience; a Masters in Food Safety; a PhD (as Fulbright scholar) in Population Medicine (with a graduate certificate in public policy). Doctoral studies were conducted in a partnership between the College of Veterinary Medicine of North Carolina State University (USA) and the medical school of Duke University (USA) and were dedicated to the epidemiological aspects of the transmission of Methicilin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). In 2017 he also got a diploma from the European College of Veterinary Public Health. Between 2012-2017 he worked as a consultant in Switzerland, (SAFOSO AG), and from October 2017 until June 2021 worked for the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), as the Deputy Head of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Veterinary Products Department. Joined the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in July 2021, as Food Safety Officer.
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Webpage |
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LAURENCE HARWOOD |
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Laurence Harwood is an Organic chemist that held the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Reading since 1996 up to 2021. Between 2015 – 2021 he took on the additional role of Director of the Chemical Analysis Facility, comprising NMR and optical spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, thermal analysis, X-ray diffractometry, proteomics and electron microscopy, providing analytical services to all departments on the campus and to external users. Since August 2021 he is Professor Emeritus but remains research active. He has supervised more than 100 doctoral and post-doctoral co-workers and has published more than 180 scientific articles and communications in peer-reviewed international journals and over 20 review articles, book chapters and patents.
Laurence Harwood's research focuses on the development of new synthetic methods and their application to the synthesis of natural and unnatural products. Current projects aim to develop synthetic approaches towards amino acids and peptides with an increasing emphasis on chemistry at the biological interface. The group also has interests in the materials area, working closely with academic institutes and industrial centres throughout Europe, US, Korea and the US in the area of nuclear reprocessing; developing ligands that selectively remove the minor actinides from waste nuclear fuel to reduce the long-term nuclear legacy of stored waste. This work is also being applied to soil remediation for removal of radionuclides and heavy metals, as well as lanthanide processing and separation.
Department of Chemistry Whiteknights, University of Reading, United Kingdom Institutional webpage |
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LUÍSA PEIXE |
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Luísa Peixe is a Pharmacist, Full Professor and Fellow of ESCMID. She heads the Department of Biological Sciences that includes the Microbiology Laboratory at the University of Porto (FFUP), where she obtained her PhD in Microbiology. She leads the BACT_DRUGS Lab research group at UCIBIO and she is the Vice-Director of this Research Unit. She is a co-author of the FEMS “COMMON EUROPEAN CURRICULUM FOR DEGREES IN HEALTH SCIENCES” and an expert in Bacteriology, Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance. She conducts research on the mechanisms, evolution and transmission of antibiotic resistance, the clinical impact of resistance, the molecular epidemiology of resistant organisms, and the role of the urobiome in health and disease. She has participated as an expert in EFSA, EMA, ECDC, WHO and JPIAMR. Her leadership roles include Director of ESCMID Summer School, Chair of the Food and Water Borne Diseases Study Group, and membership in the ECCMID Organizing Committee. She has been a guest speaker at several national and international meetings, a hearing at the European Parliament, and an editorial board member of scientific journals. Beyond research, she coordinates MicroMundo@UP and SAFE-Porto, citizen science projects on antimicrobial resistance. Her group's innovations include the Blue-Carba test for rapid carbapenemase detection, now recommended by EUCAST and WHO. With over 270 publications and numerous awards, Luísa Peixe continues to shape microbiology's future through groundbreaking research, technological advancements, and dedicated education.
UCIBIO | FFUP - Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto |
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MELIKE BALK |
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Melike Balk studied Food Science and Technology in Ankara University in Turkey, with a special interest in Microbiology. Later, she moved to the Netherlands and started working at the Microbiology Department in Wageningen University. She did her PhD on anaerobic Microbiology and Extremophiles. During a post-doc position at Wageningen University, her research was on the Microbial Physiology of anaerobic microorganisms. Another post-doc position was at the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, focusing on the investigation of early Microorganisms and their physiology. She has also worked at NASA-Ames Research Centre in the USA to research on the Archaea and reactive oxygen species on the Early Earth. Since 2021, she has been working within the SciSpace group at the ESA-ESTEC in the Netherlands. Currently, she is coordinating human research projects for the ISS (International Space Station), Concordia station in Antarctica and also ESA BedRest studies. ESA - European Space Agency, ESTEC, Noordwijk, the Netherlands Institutional webpage |
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PAULO MAGALHÃES |
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Paulo is a jurist and researcher at the CIJ - Centre for Legal Research of the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto. He graduated from the Catholic University of Porto, postgraduated at the University of Coimbra, got his PhD in Human Ecology at the New University of Lisbon, and got his post-doctorate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Porto with work on the legal status of climate. He is the author of “The Earth Condominium – From the Climate Change to a New Juridic Conception of the Planet”, 2007, and editor of “SOS - Safe Operating Space Treaty: A new approach to manage our use of the Earth System”, 2016. He is the founder and Executive Director of Common Home of Humanity (Casa Comum da Humanidade) and coordinator of the Task Force for the recognition of Climate as Common Heritage of Humankind. He is Counsellor of CNADS - National Council for Sustainable Development. He received the Green Vision Inspiration Award in 2022, the Gold Medal of Merit by the city of Porto, and Inspiring Portugal Award in Social Economy in 2022.
CIJ - Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Justice | FDUP - Faculty of Law of the University of Porto |
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RICARDO CORREIA |
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Professor Ricardo João Cruz-Correia is an Associate Professor at the Department of Community Medicine, Information and Decision Sciences (MEDCIDS), the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto (FMUP). In 1996 achieved a degree in Computer Science at the Faculty of Sciences (FCUP); in 1998 achieved a Master's Degree in Computer Science also at FCUP, and achieved a PhD at FMUP in 2008 in the Integration of Hospital Information Systems. Has about 260 scientific publications in health informatics (https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=uEK3sEkAAAAJ). He has collaborated on the implementation of several health information systems. Member of several organizations of health informatics standardization (HL7, openEHR, IPQ CT199, ABNT Brasil), currently president of the Portuguese health informatics association e-MAIS. He has lectured several curricular units on Medical Informatics (e.g. "Health Information Systems and Electronic Patient Records", "Models of clinical information and health integration standards") of pre and post-graduation courses. He is currently supervising several PhD and Master's theses on Health Informatics. Co-founder of 3 UP spin-off companies (www.hltsys.pt, www.virtualcare.pt, https://www.linkedin.com/company/5083162/) and a professional school (www.ciencia-letras.pt).
He has recently been involved in several seminars presenting the potential and dangers of using LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT) in higher education and healthcare, standing out as an informed and critical advocate of emerging technologies in healthcare.
FMUP - Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto |
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SUSANA ALMEIDA |
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Head of the Psychiatry Service and Senior Consultant Psychiatrist at the Instituto Português de Oncologia – Porto (IPOP), Portugal. Coordinator of the Neuropsychiatry Unit at Hospital CUF Porto, Portugal. Dr Almeida has been a board member of the College of Psychiatry at the Portuguese Board of Physicians since 2021, board member and past-President of the Portuguese Academy of Psycho-Oncology (2019–2023), and board member of Portuguese Society of Psychiatry and Mental Health (SPPSM) (2023–present). Dr Almeida is a guest assistant Professor at the Masters in Oncology and chair of Psycho-Oncology at ICBAS - School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at University of Porto. She is also guest Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, having had pre-grad and post-grad duties in Psychiatry, Medical Psychology and Clinical Communication. Dr Almeida trained psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College, London, obtaining her MRCPsych in 2007. Her research subjects have been inflammatory diseases, psychoneuroimmunology, clinical communication, neuropsychiatry, psycho-oncology and depressive disorders.
IPO - Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto |
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VIRGÍNIA CONCEIÇÃO |
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Virgínia da Conceição is a specialist in Clinical and Health Psychology accredited by the Portuguese Psychologist Association and holds a PhD in Public Health from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, with her research work titled "Depression stigma and help-seeking behaviours in University students: The effects of a stigma reduction intervention pre and post COVID-19 pandemic." As part of her doctoral study, she established a cohort of students from the University of Porto to study the effects of an intervention aimed at reducing the stigma associated with depression. In 2020, the study was extended also to examine the effects of the pandemic on depressive and anxious symptomatology in these university students. Currently works as a research assistant at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto and is an integrated member of the ITR in the group "Mental health literacy, well-being, depression and suicide prevention," which is part of the research line L2 – Syndemics, health inequalities, and vulnerable populations, and is part of three Horizon projects. Her latest publication, "Effects of a stigma reduction intervention on help-seeking behaviors in university students: A 2019-2021 randomized controlled trial," published in Psychiatry Research, underscores her ongoing commitment to advancing research and intervention strategies for mental health promotion in the university population.
ISPUP - Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto |
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