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Alexandra P. Marques Grupo de Investigação 3B’s – Biomateriais, Materiais Biodegradáveis e Biomiméticos, Departamento de Engenharia de Polímeros UM - University of Minho

Alexandra P. Marques was born in 1975 in Águeda, district of Aveiro. In 1997 she graduated in Biochemistry in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. In 1998 she attended the one year specialisation course as part of the Biomedical Engineering Master/Doctoral Programme at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. In 2004 she obtained her Ph.D. on Materials Science and Technology–Biomaterials in the University of Minho. Her Ph.D. work was carried out in cooperation with the University of Liverpool in UK, where she has worked for 18 months. From 2004 until 2006 she was Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at 3B’s Research Group (Biomaterials, Biodegradables & Biomimetics). At present, and since 2007, she works as assistant researcher in the 3B’s Research Group at Avepark. Her research focuses on the development of functional stem cells-based tissue engineering constructs for bone and skin applications. The design of innovative strategies for directing stem cell differentiation into the endothelial and epidermal lineages is of particular interest. New approaches for overcoming the vascularization hurdle currently impairing further advances in the regeneration of more than few millimetres in volume bone and dermal tissue engineering constructs are also of major interest.

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Ana Serro Centro de Química Estrutural Instituto Superior Técnico UTL - Technical University of Lisbon

Ana Paula Serro was born in 1971 in Lisbon, Portugal. Graduated in Chemical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico - Technical University of Lisbon (IST/UTL) in 1994, she got her Ph.D. in Chemistry (Biomaterials) in the same institution in 2001. From 1998 till 2008, she taught several disciplines of the Chemistry, Physics and Engineering areas at Instituto Superior de Ciências da Saúde Egas Moniz. She became Assistant Professor at this institution in 2002 and Associated Professor in 2005. During the same period, she developed research work at Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE) in IST. She studied the in vitro biomineralization of implant materials for the replacement of hard tissues, and, as post-doc, the tribological behaviour of prosthetic joint materials. Presently, she is Assistant Researcher at CQE. She supervised 4 master students, is (co)author of 30 papers published in international refereed journals and participates in several National and European Research Projects. Besides physical-chemistry of biomaterials interfaces, her current research interests also include the interaction of drugs with cellular membrane model systems, drug delivery from polymer matrices and QCM-D. She is a current nominated member of the Audit committee of ANICT.

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António Salgado Instituto de Investigação em Ciências da Vida e da Saúde, Escola de Ciências da Saúde UM - University of Minho

António Salgado was born in 1978 in Braga, Portugal. He finished his BSc in Applied Biology, from the University of Minho, in 2000 with a final work focused on the identification of glutamate receptors in microglial cells and peritoneal macrophages. Following this he joined the 3B’s Research Group, at the Department of Polymer Engineering from the University of Minho, where he started his Ph.D. in 2001 (supervisor: Prof. Rui L. Reis). During his Ph.D. he was also a research fellow at the National University of Singapore (local supervisor: Prof. Dietmar Hutmacher) and University of Toronto (local supervisor: Prof. John E. Davies). His thesis was focused on the evaluation on the potential of melt processed starch based scaffolds for bone tissue engineering applications. After the conclusion of his Ph.D. in 2005, he was a post doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto (2005) and in the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS; 2006-2007), University of Minho, where he worked on Adult Stem cells and biomaterials as therapeutic agents for Central Nervous System related disorders (supervisors: Nuno Sousa and Rui L. Reis). Since 2008 he is an assistant researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho. His research interests include: 1) Development of novel 3D scaffolds for Spinal Cord Injury regeneration; 2) Nanoparticles for cell specific drug delivery within the CNS and 3) The secretome of Mesenchymal Like Stem cells as a modulator of neuronal/glial survival, viability and differentiation.

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Catherine Moury CIES- ISCTE UNL - New University of Lisbon

Catherine Moury is an Advanced Research Fellow at CIES – ISCTE and Guest Professor at the New University of Lisbon. Her research focuses on institutional change in the European Union and on coalition governments, about which she has published in journals such as West European Politics, Party Politics and Acta Politica. She has also recently co-edited Institutional challenges in post-constitutional Europe: Governing change (Routledge). Her article ‘Explaining the European Parliament’s Right to Appoint and Invest the Commission: Interstitial institutional change’, published in West European Politics in 2007, has been awarded the Vincent Wright Memorial Prize and the Gulbenkian Prize for the internationalization of Social Science.

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Dirk-Jan Scheffers Laboratorio da Proteómica da Membrana Bacteriana, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica UNL - New University of Lisbon

Dirk-Jan Scheffers was born in 1972 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In 1996 he obtained an M.Sc. in Molecular Biology, and in 2001 a P.D. in Molecular Microbiology, both from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a post-doc in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK; and between 2004 and 2008 at the VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2008 he joined the Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB), part of UNL, in Oeiras, on a Ciência 2007 fellowship. At ITQB he works as an Investigador Auxiliar and is the head of the Bacterial Membrane Proteomics Laboratory. He has received research grants from various European and national research organizations, including EMBO and FCT, and since 2008 serves on the editorial advisory board of the journal Molecular Microbiology. His research interests are bacterial cell division, and bacterial cell wall growth.

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Ferrie van Hattum Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos UM - University of Minho

Ferrie van Hattum, born on 04 October 1971 in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Holds an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Design with Plastics), from the University of Twente, the Netherlands and a Ph.D. in Polymer Engineering (Carbon Nanofiber Composites) from the University of Minho, Portugal. Has been working at the Centre of Lightweight Structures TNO-TUD, Delft, the Netherlands, performing contracted research on Composites applications, and lecturing at the Department of Polymer Engineering at UM. Is currently Investigador Auxiliar at the Institute for Polymers and Composites at UM and head of the Composites Group at PIEP- Innovation in Polymer Engineering, a non-profit tech-transfer industrial research centre. Has been working in Polymer Composites since 1994. He has supervised 1 Ph.D. student and is currently supervising 3 Ph.D.-students. He is the (co)author of 3 book chapters, 17 invited lectures, 27 papers published in international refereed journals, and 47 papers published in proceedings of inter-national conferences.

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Frank Wagner Centro de Geofísica UÉ - University of Évora

Frank Wagner studied in Meteorology and Geophyiscs at the University of Leipzig, Germany and graduated in 1996. After he has done his Ph.D. at the Institute for Tropospheric Research e.V., Leipzig Germany on properties of atmospheric aerosol particles (2000). During his Ph.D. he participated actively in large international field campaigns as ACE-2 (Aerosol Characterization Experiment 2), and INDOEX (Indian Ocean Experiment). Between 2000 and 2004 he worked as scientist at the University of Munich, Germany. Since 2004 he is working at the Geophysics Center of Évora, Portugal. In 2006 he was the leading scientist of the experiment DARPO (Desert Aerosols over Portugal). In 2007 he was working temporarily as visiting scientist at the University of Santa Cruz, California, USA. His research interests are measurements of atmospheric optical and microphysical properties of aerosol particles either by in situ or by remote sensing methods and the determination of the climatic impact of these particles. He is principal investigador of a 6 channel LIDAR - a system which is unique in Portugal. He has authored or co-authored more than 20 publications in international peer-review journals and presented his work in various international conferences. He serves also as reviewer for several international journals. He is current nominated vice-president of the direction of ANICT.

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Gina Caetano IBILI Faculdade de Medicina UC - University of Coimbra

Gina Caetano holds an M.Sc in Licenciatura em Engenharia Física Tecnológica (LEFT) since 2001, from Instituto Superior Técnico of UTL, where she worked as a teaching assistant in biophysics. In 2002-2003 she completed a licenciate program in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering at Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica, Faculty of Sciencies of the University of Lisbon. She also worked as a research assistant at the Brain Research Unit, Low Temperature Laboratory (BRU/LTL), at the Helsinki University of Technology (HUT - nowadays Aalto University), in Finland. In 2007 she completed a Ph.D. in Neurosciences at the BRU/LTL, in Finland, under the supervision of Professor Riitta Hari, and Docent Veikko Jousmäki. The title of the thesis is: “Brain Mechanisms of Audiotactile and Audiomotor Interactions”. During 2008 she worked both as a Postdoctoral Scientist at BRU/LTL and as a Physicist at the Advanced Magnetic Imaging Centre of the HUT, in Finland. At the end of 2008 she moved back to Portugal as a Postdoctoral Scientist. Currently, she holds a Research Associate position (Programa Ciência 2008) at IBILI, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. Her main research interests focus on the application of machine-learning pattern classification algorithms in basic and clinical neurosciences, and unraveling mechanisms of multisensory perception in socially relevant contexts. She is a current nominated member of the direction of ANICT.

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Helena S. Azevedo Grupo de Investigação 3B’s – Biomateriais, Materiais Biodegradáveis e Biomiméticos- Departamento de Engenharia de Polímeros UM - University of Minho

Helena S. Azevedo was born in 1972 in Caldelas (Amares). She received her B.S. degree in Biological Engineering from University of Minho (Portugal) in 1995 and her Ph.D. from De Montfort University (UK) in 2001. Then, she joined the 3B’s Research Group at University of Minho as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2006, she was awarded with a Marie Curie Research fellowship which allowed her to work in the laboratory of Prof. Samuel Stupp at the Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine (Northwestern University, Chicago, USA). Currently, she holds a tenure-track faculty position in the 3B’s Research Group at University of Minho. Her present research is focused on developing biomimetic matrices based on natural polysaccharides and bioactive peptides and formed by self-assembling processes.

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Iva Pashkuleva Grupo de Investigação 3B’s – Biomateriais, Materiais Biodegradáveis e Biomiméticos- Departamento de Engenharia de Polímeros UM - University of Minho

Iva Pashkuleva received her M.Sc. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and her Ph.D. in Organic Synthesis from the same University. After accomplishing her Ph.D., she has got an appointment as an assistant professor in the Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Sofia. In 2001 she has joined the 3B's Research Group, University of Minho, Portugal where currently she is an associated researcher. Her main research interests are focused on different approaches for surface modification of biomaterials and the interactions of those biomaterials with biological entities such as cells and proteins.

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João Lopes REQUIMTE UP - University of Porto

João Almeida Lopes was born on the 19 November 1973 in Leiria, Portugal. He holds a Chemical Engineering (biotechnology branch) from Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon (IST/UTL). He completed his Ph.D. in Biotechnology in the area of chemometrics in the pharmaceutical industry in 2001, working in chemometrics modelling of industrial pharmaceutical production processes (IST/UTL) (Thesis awarded with the CUF prize in 2002). Since then, he consolidated the development and application of chemometrics and spectroscopy for systems identification in the chemical, biochemical and pharmaceutical fields working as post-doc researcher at IST/UTL. In 2004, he and three co-workers were awarded with the first prize in the entrepreneurship contest Bioempreendedor. He joined the University of Porto/REQUIMTE Associated Laboratory in December 2005 as Investigador Auxiliar in chemometrics and process spectroscopy. Current research activity is conducted at the Faculty of Pharmacy of UP and is focused on the development and application of chemometrics and vibrational spectroscopy systems in the context of green-chemistry (non-destructive and non-invasive): 1) pharmaceutical processes and pharmaceutical quality control, 2) analytical methods development and optimization, 3) biochemical, biological and environmental systems monitoring and 4) microrganisms identification for infection control. He is the current nominated secretary of the Audit committee of ANICT.

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João Rodrigues Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, UNL – New University of Lisbon

João Rodrigues was born in 1978 in the city of Évora. Graduated in Chemistry from the University of Lisbon in 2002. During his degree had the opportunity to be a visiting researcher at the Michael Barber Centre for Mass Spectrometry, Manchester, UK (Prof. Jane Thomas-Oates, 2001) and at the Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK (Prof. Ben Davis, 2002). From 2002 to 2005 studied for a Ph.D. in Biological Mass Spectrometry (Department of Chemistry, University of York, UK). From 2006 to 2008, worked at Welcome Trust Biocentre, Dundee, Scotland as Post-Doctoral Researcher (Prof. Mike Ferguson FRS) using a combination of functional genomics and proteomics to find new drugs to tackle a major neglected disease, African Sleeping Sickness, work for which he received the 2008 Early Stage Investigator Award from the British Society for Proteome Research. Since October 2008, João returned to Portugal to work as Investigador Auxiliar (Ciência 2007) at the Center for Malaria and Tropical Diseases – an Associated Laboratory hosted by the Institute of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UNL. His research takes a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the biochemistry of protozoan parasites that cause tropical diseases and is particularly interested in how the fundamental biochemical differences between the host and parasites can be exploited as putative new drug targets or diagnostic tools. He is the current nominated treasurer of the direction of ANICT.

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José R. B. Gomes CICECO Departamento de Química UA - University of Aveiro

José R. B. Gomes, 36 y.o., married, two children, is an Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials (CICECO), University of Aveiro since December 2007. In the period 1991-95, he studied Chemistry at the Faculty of Science, University of Porto (FCUP) and he has been awarded the Mendonça Monteiro and Teresa da Fonseca awards. In the period 1995-99, under supervision of Prof. Ferreira Gomes. José obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry also at FCUP. In 1998, José was a Training Visitor at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center (EPCC) and, in 1998 and 1999, José visited for short periods the group of Prof. Francesc Illas, in the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Barcelona. From January 2000 to January 2001, he worked in the group of Prof. Illas again but as a post-doc researcher. He returned to FCUP in 2001 to join the group of Prof. Manuel Ribeiro da Silva where he was a post-doc researcher until November 2007. José is the co-supervisor of two post-doc researchers and also of a Ph.D. student. In the course of his scientific career, José has co-authored circa 100 scientific publications in the area of applied computational chemistry, most of them ISI-indexed. Finally, José acted recently as a guest editor of the Journal of Molecular Structure – Theochem and he is a member of the editorial board of the journal Current Physical Chemistry.

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Konstantin Luzyanin Centro de Química Estrutural Instituto Superior Técnico UTL – Technical University of Lisbon

Konstantin Luzyanin was born in Pskov, Russian Federation, in 1980. He studied Chemistry at St. Petersburg State University, where he obtained his Diploma with Distinction (final grade 4.83 from 5.00) in 2002. Konstantin got his Ph.D. degree from Technical University of Lisbon (under joint supervision by Profs. A.J.L. Pombeiro and V.Yu. Kukushkin) in 2007. For his Ph.D. thesis, Konstantin was awarded the “António Xavier Prize 2008” from Bruker for applications of the selected NMR spectroscopy techniques in chemistry, and for published works, the Honorous Mention (in Chemistry) - Junior Researcher Prize by TU Lisbon/Deloitte in 2009. After postdoctoral studies in organometallic chemistry with Prof. A.J.L. Pombeiro (IST-TU Lisbon), Konstantin won a position as Investigador Auxiliar (Ciência-2008 program) at the Centro de Química Estrutural – a research centre at IST. In addition, he was appointed as the Manager of IST-UTL NMR Center of the Portuguese NMR Network in 2009. Konstantin´s current research interests include transition metals chemistry, in particular of platinum group elements, and metal-mediated synthesis and catalysis. He is a co-author of 37 publications (23 are in international refereed journals, and 4 patents), and more than 20 papers in conference proceedings. In the course of last years, he co-supervised several research grantees and master students. He is a current nominated member of the direction of ANICT.

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Manuela Vilarinho Oliveira LSRE/LCM Faculdade de Engenharia UP - University of Porto

Manuela Vilarinho Oliveira was born in 1974, in Esposende, Portugal. She is married and has one daughter (Maria João) and one son (André). In 1998 she graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). In 1999 she was awarded a Ph.D. grant by FCT to work under the supervision of Prof. José Miguel Loureiro, in LSRE-FEUP, where she completed her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2004 on the topic “TAME: Kinetics in Batch Reactor and Simulation of the Continuous Production”. Manuela Vilarinho Oliveira joined the School of Management and Technology of the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo in October, 2002, where she was an Assistant Professor until December 2007, teaching a number of courses in Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Food Engineering. In January 2008 she joined LSRE as an auxiliary researcher. Her main research interests involve: enzymatic catalysis, supercritical fluid technologies, process intensification (simultaneous reaction and separation), heterogeneous catalytic reactors, and reactor modeling. Recently, the development of green processes, based on enzymatic catalysis and green/neoteric solvents for the production of high-added value products (e.g. for the cosmetic, fragrance, food, pharmaceutical industries), has been a main area of research, where the experimental work is complemented with the modeling and simulation of the processes studied. She is a current nominated member of the direction of ANICT.

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Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia UNL – New University of Lisbon

Maria Antónia Pires de Almeida was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Researcher at the CIUHCT – Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, UNL. Post-graduate in European Studies, with a Ph.D. in Contemporary History and a Post-Doctoral research project on Political Science, focusing on Local Government. Recent published work: «A Revolução no Alentejo. Memória e Trauma da Reforma Agrária em Avis», Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006; «Memory and trauma of the Portuguese Agrarian Reform: a case study», Portuguese Journal of Social Science, 6 (2), 2007, pp. 63-76; «Independents and Citizen’s Groups in Portuguese Municipalities», Reiser, Marion; Holtmann, Everhard (Eds.) – «Farewell to the Party Model? Independent Local Lists in East and West European Countries», vol. 11, Wiesbaden, VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften, 2008, pp. 233-251; «Party politics in Portugal: municipalities and central government», European Societies, Volume 10 Issue 3, August, 2008, pp. 357-378; «Women in Portuguese politics», Portuguese Journal of Social Science, vol. 8, n. 2, 2009, pp. 177-189. Present research interests: History of the popularization of science and technology; nineteenth and twentieth century newspapers.

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Matthieu Ferry Centro de Geofísica UÉ - University of Évora

Matthieu A. Ferry was born in 1973 in Nancy, France. In 1999, he obtained a M.Sc. in Fundamental and Applied Geophysics from the University of Strasbourg, France and in 2004, a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland. Between 2004 and 2007, he worked on several European projects (APAME, ALPS-GPSQuakeNet and TRANSFER) at the Institute of Geophysics in Strasbourg, France. Since 2008, he is a Ciência fellow with the Centro de Geofísica de Évora (CGE). His research focuses on the behavior of active faults and how it impacts seismic hazard in various parts of the world: the North-Anatolian Fault (Turkey), the Dead Sea Fault (Turkey and Jordan), the Basel-Reinach Fault (Switzerland) and the Ulaanbaatar Basin (Mongolia). Recently, he has been awarded funding by FCT to study the Lower Tagus Valley in Portugal (ATESTA project). He has (co-)authored 10 articles in international peer-reviewed publications, 40 conference abstracts and is a regular reviewer for leading journals in Earth Sciences.

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Miguel Brito Instituto D. Luis UL - University of Lisbon

Miguel Brito has a Physics Engineering degree from the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico, 1994) and a DPhil from the University of Oxford (1999). He used to work on instrumentation for space applications, including the PoSat and Rosetta missions. Since 2000 he has been at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon working on solar power, with special emphasis on silicon for photovoltaics and concentrated photovoltaics. He teaches Photovoltaics and Energy systems.

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Miguel Jorge LSRE/LCM Faculdade de Engenharia UP - University of Porto

Miguel Jorge was born in Ovar, Portugal in 1975. In 1998 he completed his Degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Porto. During his degree, he spent 4 months at BASF-AG in Ludwigshafen, Germany, working on measurement techniques in multiphase flow. In December 1998, he joined the University of Edinburgh, UK, as a postgraduate student, and completed his Ph.D. in 2003. His work, supervised by Prof. Nigel A. Seaton, focused on modeling and prediction of multi-component adsorption using molecular simulation techniques. In January 2004 he was offered a position of Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, to work with Profs. Peter Monson and Scott Auerbach on molecular simulation of the synthesis of nanoporous zeolites. He returned to Portugal in 2005, to work as an Auxiliary Researcher in the theoretical chemistry group of REQUIMTE, based in Porto. In December 2007, he joined the LSRE/LCM Associated Laboratory as an Auxiliary Researcher. He was recently awarded an Honourable Mention in the 2009 IBM Scientific Prize for his work on computer modeling of nanoporous material synthesis. His research efforts include areas as diverse as adsorption, material synthesis and characterization, thermodynamics and phase equilibrium, physics of interfaces and nanotechnology. He is current nominated vice-president of the direction of ANICT.

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Miguel Santos CIIMAR UP - University of Porto

Miguel Santos was born in Vila Nova de Gaia in 1972. He got his degree in Biology by the University of Porto in 1994. In 2002 he got his Ph.D. in Biology by the University of Porto, with a joint supervision by the Faculty of Sciences and the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). During his Ph.D. he focused on the Ecotoxicological effects of organotin pollutants in mollusk populations. Between 2002/2003 he did a Post-Doc at the Department of Environmental Chemistry CID-CSIC Barcelona and in the University of Porto- Faculty of Sciences/CIIMAR. He joined the Associated Laboratory CIMAR (Centre of Marine and Environmental Research) as an Assistant Researcher in 2003, at the Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology (Interdisciplinary Centre for Marine and Environmental Research - CIIMAR). Since then, the main field of research has been the study of endocrine disruption in aquatic organisms. Since he joined CIMAR he has published 20 articles in international peer-reviewed journals. He has been involved in four European projects, and at the moment is principal investigator of an FCT project. He is the supervisor of two Ph.D. students, a Post-doc, and co-supervisor of two other Ph.D. students. He is a current nominated secretary of the General Assembly of ANICT.

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Mónica S. N. Oliveira Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte Faculdade de Engenharia UP – University of Porto

Mónica S. N. Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal in 1975. In 1998 she completed her Degree in Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP). During her degree, she spent 4 months at BASF-AG in Ludwigshafen, Germany, working on experimental measurement techniques applied to multiphase flows. In 2003 she completed her Ph.D. entitled “Characterization of a Gas-Liquid Oscillatory Baffled Column” at the school of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK. She then moved to the USA to work in the Mechanical Engineering Department at MIT as a post-doctoral research associate. She worked in the group of Prof. Gareth McKinley, with whom she keeps active collaboration. Her work at MIT focused on extensional rheology and dynamics of viscoelastic fluids, including the study of beads-on-a-string phenomenon and the development of a microfluidic rheometric device. In 2005 she returned to FEUP and joined CEFT (Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte) as a post-doc researcher to set up a microfluidic laboratory in the host research group. She is since 2008 an Auxiliary Researcher (Investigador Auxiliar) of CEFT. Her main research activities are in the general area of fluid mechanics and transport phenomena, with particular emphasis in microfluidics and rheology of complex fluids, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and microfabrication. She is a

current nominated member of the direction of ANICT.

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Myrta Grüning Centro de Física Computacional Departamento de Física UC - University of Coimbra

Myrta Grüning, born 1975, studied Physics at the University of Pisa, Italy. She received her Ph.D. degree from the Free University of Amsterdam in 2003, with a thesis on density-functional-theory based ab-initio methods for calculating excited state properties of molecules. Afterwards she held a post-doctoral position at the Donostia International Physics Center in San Sebastian, Spain, (2003-2005) and at the Catholic University of Louvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (2006-2009). Since June 2009 she is Investigador Auxiliar at the Physics Department and Center for Computational Physics of the University of Coimbra, under the Ciência 2008 Programme. Her main research interests are the development of ab-initio methods for calculating the excited state properties of electronic systems and the application of those methods to calculate electronic and optical properties of technologically relevant materials.

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Natascha van Hattum-Janssen Centro de Investigação em Educação UM - University of Minho

Natascha van Hattum-Janssen (Neede, the Netherlands, 1971) finished her Master´s Degree in Education at the University of Twente, the Netherlands in 1995. After a traineeship at the University of Pretoria in South-Africa, and positions as educational specialist at the Engineering School of the University of Minho and the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, she finished her Ph.D. at the University of Minho in 2004. She continued her research as a post-doctoral fellow at the same university and started as a researcher at the Research Centre in Education of the University of Minho in 2008. In 2009, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Dayton, Ohio. Her research interests include higher education, curriculum development, assessment of learning, project-based learning and faculty development. She is one of the chairs of the annual Ibero-American Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education and a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Education of the University of Minho.

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Nicolas Lori IBILI – Faculdade de Medicina UC - University of Coimbra

Nicolás F. Lori received Bachelor degree in Physics from University of Coimbra in 1993. He was a recipient of the Fulbright fellowship. Did research at the Instituto Superior Técnico of the Technical University of Lisbon. Received a Physics Ph.D. in 2001 from Washington University in Saint Louis Title of thesis was “Diffusion Tensor Tracking of Neuronal Fiber Pathways in the Living Human Brain”. Was then post-doc at Service Hospitalier Frederic Jolliot of C.E.A. until 2003. Between 2003 and 2005 he was a post-doc at Washington University in Saint Louis (USA). Then joined Antonio Damasio and Hanna Damasio´s teams first at the Neurology Department of University of Iowa, and then at the “Occupational Science and Occupational therapy” Department of the University of Southern California until 2007 where he was an Assistant Professor. In 2007 he was at the "Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais" of University of Lisbon, and then at IEETA of University of Aveiro. Since January 2008 he is an Assistant Researcher at the IBILI research center of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Coimbra. Has been working in Diffusion MRI since 1997. Author of several book chapters, lectures, abstracts, and papers. He is vice-President of Fulbrighters-Portugal, a board member of CADC, and the current nominated President of the ANICT Fiscal Council.

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Nuno Cerca Center of Biological Engineering Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering UM - University of Minho

Nuno Miguel Dias Cerca was born in 1978 in the town of Arouca, district of Aveiro. He finished is BSc in Microbiology, from the Superior School of Biotechnology, Portuguese Catholic University, in 2000. In 2001 he was a Lecturer at the Science and Technology Superior Institute of Mozambique. He started his Ph.D. at the University of Minho, in 2002, and in 2004 he was awarded a Fulbright fellowship to the Channing Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, in Boston, USA. After finishing is Ph.D. in 2006, he became a post-doctoral fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, USA. Since 2008 he is an Investigador Auxiliar at the Center of Biological Engineering - Institute of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His research interests include: bacterial biofilm infections, molecular biology and immunology. He is the chair of his department weekly research seminars, and since 2010 he is a member of the School Council of Engineering, from the University of Minho. He is the current nominated president of the direction of ANICT.

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Nuno Otero Centro Algoritmi UM - University of Minho

Nuno Otero has a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada and a Doctorate degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex. Between 2002 and 2005 he held a post-doc position at INESC-ID, Lisbon, and visited the Interact Lab at University of Sussex as a visiting Research Fellow between February 2004 and September 2005. In 2005 he joined the Adaptive Systems Research Group, University of Hertfordshire as a Research Fellow, where he stayed until February 2008. Since March 2008 he is a Research Fellow (Investigador Auxiliar) at the Algoritmi Centre, Ubiquitous Computing Research Group (ubicomp@uminho), University of Minho. He is interested on theories and conceptual frameworks in HCI, from more traditional approaches, taking a user centred perspective, to more recent trends focusing on user’s experiences with technologies. In a nutshell, the question driving his research concerns the understanding of how the properties of distinct devices, computational artefacts and embedded external representations impact on people’s activities (from work-related activities to ludic contexts). Furthermore, he is also keen on understanding how distinct methodologies suit the investigation of different issues along the artefact design cycle and how the design solutions can be documented and reused by design teams. He is the current nominated president of the General Assembly of ANICT.

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Sandra Heleno Instituto de Engenharia de Estruturas, Território, e Construção - Instituto Superior Técnico UTL – Technical University of Lisbon

Sandra Heleno, born 1971, in Lisbon, Portugal. She graduated in Physics Engineering and Technology at Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal (IST/UTL), and holds a Ph.D. in Physics Engineering from the same institution. From 1996 to 2008, as a fellow from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnlogia (FCT), she conducted research in the area of volcanic seismology, while deploying and running volcano and seismic monitoring networks, based both at IST (Portugal) and at Laboratorio de Engenharia (Cabo Verde). Her work was awarded the 1st Prize “Cooperation for Development” in 2003, by Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (IPAD). She is currently Investigador Auxiliar at Instituto de Engenharia de Estruturas, Território e Construção (ICIST), a research centre at IST, where she also teaches physics laboratory classes. She is presently the Principal Investigator of two research projects funded by FCT, both addressing the mitigation of natural hazards through the use of satellite remote sensing techniques. She has (co)authored 1 book chapter and 8 papers published in international refereed journals. She is a current nominated secretary of the General Assembly of ANICT.