Speakers

Jorge Calado

Chemical

Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. Lisboa

JORGE CALADO, graduate in chemical engineering from IST and Doctor in Chemistry from Oxford University, is Emeritus Professor in Physical Chemistry at IST. He was also adjunct full professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University. He has authored more than 170 scientific articles and supervised more than 130 PhD´s. Member of several international commissions (IUPAC, NATO, INTAS and EU), he was also Executive Director of the Luso-American Cultural Commission and full member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. The bridge between the exact sciences and art is among his main interests, and he coordinated courses such as “The art of science” and “Art, Technique and Society” at Cornel University and IST. He is culture critic at the Portuguese newspaper Expresso and has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Opera Now and Agenda XXI. He supervised the first postgraduate studies in arts administration in Portugal and founded IST Press. He created the Portuguese National Photography Collection and organized more than 25 photography exhibitions in Portugal, France, Belgium, UK and USA. He is the author of the books Let there be light (2011) and Limits of science (2014).

Alessandro Farini

Physicist

Visual Ergonomy Lab

CNR-National Institute of Optics in Florence, Italy

ALESSANDRO FARINI is a physicist graduated at the University of Florence, where he also received his PhD in Optics. He is the head researcher of the Psychophysics and Visual Ergonomy Lab at the CNR-National Institute of Optics in Florence, Italy.

The Visual Ergonomy Lab is a laboratory especially devoted to Applied Psychophysics. Farini’s research work is addressed to the study of lighting and ophthalmic optics. He is also Contracted Professor at the University of Florence, degree in Optics and Optometry: he is teaching Geometrical Optics and Physical Optics. Farini is also interested in science outreach. Other data at the web site: www.ino.it/home/farini, on his blog www.riflessioniottiche.it and on Facebook and Twitter.

João Paulo André

Chemist

Universidade do Minho

JOÃO PAULO ANDRÉ graduated in Chemistry from the University of Coimbra (1987) and obtained the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Universität Basel, Switzerland (1999). He is Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department of the University of Minho, where he teaches several courses in the field of Inorganic Chemistry. His research interests are focused on the development and characterization of new metal complexes for medical imaging (MRI, PET and nuclear scintigraphy). In addition to teaching and research activities, he is dedicated to science promotion (lectures, radio, writing), creating bridges between science and the arts, with an emphasis in opera. Currently, he is the editor for the Bulletin of the Portuguese Chemical Society.

Luís Oliveira e Silva

Physicist

Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. Lisboa

LUÍS O. SILVA is Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, where he leads the Group for Lasers and Plasmas. He obtained his degrees (MSc 1992, PhD 1997 and Habilitation 2005) from IST. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles from 1997 to 2001. His scientific contributions are focused in the interaction of intense beams of particles and lasers with plasmas, from a fundamental point of view and towards their applications for secondary sources for biology and medicine.

LUÍS O. SILVA has authored more than 170 papers in refereed journals and three patents, and has given invited talks at the major plasma physics conferences and served on the program and selection committees of conferences and prizes in Europe, US and Japan. He is a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of ELI – Beamlines, of the Scientific Steering Committee of PRACE, of the National Council for Science and Technology (reporting to the Prime Minister of Portugal), and President of the Scientific Council of IST. He has supervised 8 PhD students and 7 post-doctoral fellows whose work has led to several national and international prizes. He was PI in more than 20 projects funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation, ESA and EU, in EU supercomputing projects, by NVIDIA, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2010, being one of the youngest scientists to be awarded an Advanced Grant.

He was awarded the 2011 Scientific Prize of the Technical University of Lisbon, the IBM Scientific Prize 2003, the 2001 Abdus Salam ICTP Medal for Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Physics by a Young Researcher, and the Gulbenkian Prize for Young Researchers in 1994. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and to the Global Young Academy in 2009.

Paulo André

Engineer

Instituto Superior Técnico e Instituto de Telecomunicações

Univ. Lisboa

PAULO SÉRGIO DE BRITO ANDRÉ was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1971. He received the bachelor’s degree in physics engineering, the Ph.D. degree in physics, and the Agregação title (habilitation) degrees from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 1996, 2002, and 2011, respectively. In 2013 he joined, as an Associate Professor, the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, where he lectures courses on Telecommunications. Since 2015 he is the vice-director of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

His current research interests include the study and simulation of photonic and optoelectronic components, optical sensors, optical communications systems and networks.

Uwe Oelfke

Medical Physicist

Institute of Cancer Research, London

Professor Oelfke is Deputy Head of the Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, Head of the Joint Department of Physics (ICR and RMH) and Team Leader for the Radiotherapy Physics Modelling group.

His career began in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, gaining his PhD at the University of Hanover in 1990. He then moved to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics where he worked as a Post Doc, initially with the Nuclear Theory Group and then moved to the Batho Biomedical Facility as a Research Associate, looking at Proton & Pion Therapy. It was at this stage he transferred from Nuclear to Medical Physics.

In 1997 he returned to Germany to join The German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg as a Research Associate, where he became a group leader in 2001 and received a Professorship of Medical Radiation Physics from Heidelberg University in 2004. During 15 years in Heidelberg, his research was focused on adaptive and image-guided radiation therapy, treatment planning and modelling and Hadron therapy.

He firmly believes that Medical physics research on cancer imaging and therapy is an essential component to improve the clinical outcomes of radiation oncology.

Teresa Paiva

Neurologist

Centro de Sono, Lisboa

TERESA PAIVA graduated in Medicine in 1969 at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, and the specialization in neurology sparked her interest in sleep-related diseases. For over thirty years she has been dedicated to watching and to teaching others how to sleep.
Her work has been awarded several times and she collaborates regularly in clinical trials and research projects with worldwide experts. She has co-authored several books related to the topic of sleep, has created the EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology Center - Sleep Medicine Center and has created the world's first MSc degree in sleep.
She is a university professor, neurologist, and neurophysiologist with expertise in Sleep Medicine.

Henrique Leitão

Pessoa Prize 2014

Historian of Science

Faculdade de Ciências

Universidade de Lisboa

HENRIQUE LEITÃO is Senior Researcher at the Center for the History of Science (CIUHCT) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he also teaches History and Philosophy of Science in the MSc Program. His research interests include the history of exact sciences in Europe from the 15th to the 17th centuries. He is also interested in the history of scientific books and collaborates regularly with the Portuguese National Library, in Lisbon. He heads the Scientific Committee in charge of the publication of the Complete Works of the sixteenth-century mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes, by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Henrique Leitão is member of various learned societies, including the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, the European Society for the History of Science and the History of Science Society.

Pedro Redol

Historian

Museu da Batalha

PEDRO REDOL was born in Tomar on July 13, 1965. He graduated in History - Specialization in Art History from School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, and obtained the MSc degree in Art, Heritage and Restoration from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He specialized in the study and preservation of antique stained glass, a subject in which he performed several traineeships in Spain, England and German.

He represents Portugal in the Corpus Vitrearum, an Institution under the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art and of the Union Académique Internationale.

He has served as curator at the Batalha Monastery, Portugal, since 1987, a position which he has suspended to serve as the director of the Convento de Cristo in Tomar, director of the National Museum Machado de Castro in Coimbra, and director of Batalha Monastery.

He is invited Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon.

He has published tens of works in Portugal, France, England e Belgium, related to the history and conservation of stained glass, history of Portuguese antique painting history, history of architecture, monuments and landscape management, and education of conservation. He is the author of the 2002 book O Mosteiro da Batalha e o Vitral em Portugal nos séculos XV e XVI.

José Manuel Rodrigues

Pessoa Prize 1999

Photographer

Universidade de Évora

JOSÉ MANUEL RODRIGUES was born in Lisbon in 1951. Lived in Paris, France (1968/1969) and in The Netherlands between 1969 and 1993 where studied photography. He was the co-founder of “Perspektief” and was responsible for the “Perspektief” gallery expositions program.

He was a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian fellow in the dates of (1986-1987, 1995 and 1996) and received some labour grants, in 1992 from Fonds voor de Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture), and in 1997 from Centro Nacional de Cultura de Portugal, (Portuguese Cultural National Centre).

In 1982 we received the Vrije Creatieve Opdracht prize (Photography creative prize) from Raad voor de Kunst (Council for culture, Amsterdam).

In 1999 was awarded, together with the poet Manuel Alegre, with the “Prémio Pessoa” (the most important award in the area of Portuguese culture).

His work is represented in several private and public collections, such as: Culturgest, Museu de Serralves, BES-foto, Centro Português da Fotografia, Centro das Artes Visuais, in Portugal. In other countries; in Dutch Art Foundation, Van Reekum Galerie (Apeldoorn), Prentenkabinet (Leiden), La Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), among others.

He taught photography in several national and international schools and institutions, for example in (Rotterdam, Oporto, Évora and Caldas de Rainha).

In the years of 2007 and 2008 was invited professor in Visual Arts master course from IADE-Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa, in Lisbon. Since 2009 is invited Adjunct Professor in the Visual Arts Department of Évora University, Portugal.

	Jorge Calado Chemical Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. Lisboa JORGE CALADO, graduate in chemical engineering from IST and Doctor in Chemistry from Oxford University, is Emeritus Professor in Physical Chemistry at IST. He was also adjunct full professor of chemical engineering at Cornell University. He has authored more than 170 scientific articles and supervised more than 130 PhD´s. Member of several international commissions (IUPAC, NATO, INTAS and EU), he was also Executive Director of the Luso-American Cultural Commission and full member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. The bridge between the exact sciences and art is among his main interests, and he coordinated courses such as “The art of science” and “Art, Technique and Society” at Cornel University and IST. He is culture critic at the Portuguese newspaper Expresso and has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Opera Now and Agenda XXI. He supervised the first postgraduate studies in arts administration in Portugal and founded IST Press. He created the Portuguese National Photography Collection and organized more than 25 photography exhibitions in Portugal, France, Belgium, UK and USA. He is the author of the books Let there be light (2011) and Limits of science (2014).
	Alessandro Farini Physicist Visual Ergonomy Lab CNR-National Institute of Optics in Florence, Italy ALESSANDRO FARINI is a physicist graduated at the University of Florence, where he also received his PhD in Optics. He is the head researcher of the Psychophysics and Visual Ergonomy Lab at the CNR-National Institute of Optics in Florence, Italy. The Visual Ergonomy Lab is a laboratory especially devoted to Applied Psychophysics. Farini’s research work is addressed to the study of lighting and ophthalmic optics. He is also Contracted Professor at the University of Florence, degree in Optics and Optometry: he is teaching Geometrical Optics and Physical Optics. Farini is also interested in science outreach. Other data at the web site: www.ino.it/home/farini, on his blog www.riflessioniottiche.it and on Facebook and Twitter.
	João Paulo André Chemist Universidade do Minho JOÃO PAULO ANDRÉ graduated in Chemistry from the University of Coimbra (1987) and obtained the Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Universität Basel, Switzerland (1999). He is Assistant Professor in the Chemistry Department of the University of Minho, where he teaches several courses in the field of Inorganic Chemistry. His research interests are focused on the development and characterization of new metal complexes for medical imaging (MRI, PET and nuclear scintigraphy). In addition to teaching and research activities, he is dedicated to science promotion (lectures, radio, writing), creating bridges between science and the arts, with an emphasis in opera. Currently, he is the editor for the Bulletin of the Portuguese Chemical Society.

	Luís Oliveira e Silva Physicist Instituto Superior Técnico, Univ. Lisboa LUÍS O. SILVA is Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal, where he leads the Group for Lasers and Plasmas. He obtained his degrees (MSc 1992, PhD 1997 and Habilitation 2005) from IST. He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles from 1997 to 2001. His scientific contributions are focused in the interaction of intense beams of particles and lasers with plasmas, from a fundamental point of view and towards their applications for secondary sources for biology and medicine. LUÍS O. SILVA has authored more than 170 papers in refereed journals and three patents, and has given invited talks at the major plasma physics conferences and served on the program and selection committees of conferences and prizes in Europe, US and Japan. He is a member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of ELI – Beamlines, of the Scientific Steering Committee of PRACE, of the National Council for Science and Technology (reporting to the Prime Minister of Portugal), and President of the Scientific Council of IST. He has supervised 8 PhD students and 7 post-doctoral fellows whose work has led to several national and international prizes. He was PI in more than 20 projects funded by the Portuguese Science Foundation, ESA and EU, in EU supercomputing projects, by NVIDIA, and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. He was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2010, being one of the youngest scientists to be awarded an Advanced Grant. He was awarded the 2011 Scientific Prize of the Technical University of Lisbon, the IBM Scientific Prize 2003, the 2001 Abdus Salam ICTP Medal for Excellence in Nonlinear Plasma Physics by a Young Researcher, and the Gulbenkian Prize for Young Researchers in 1994. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and to the Global Young Academy in 2009.
	Paulo André Engineer Instituto Superior Técnico e Instituto de Telecomunicações Univ. Lisboa PAULO SÉRGIO DE BRITO ANDRÉ was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1971. He received the bachelor’s degree in physics engineering, the Ph.D. degree in physics, and the Agregação title (habilitation) degrees from the University of Aveiro, Portugal, in 1996, 2002, and 2011, respectively. In 2013 he joined, as an Associate Professor, the Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, where he lectures courses on Telecommunications. Since 2015 he is the vice-director of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current research interests include the study and simulation of photonic and optoelectronic components, optical sensors, optical communications systems and networks.
	Uwe Oelfke Medical Physicist Institute of Cancer Research, London Professor Oelfke is Deputy Head of the Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, Head of the Joint Department of Physics (ICR and RMH) and Team Leader for the Radiotherapy Physics Modelling group. His career began in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, gaining his PhD at the University of Hanover in 1990. He then moved to TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics where he worked as a Post Doc, initially with the Nuclear Theory Group and then moved to the Batho Biomedical Facility as a Research Associate, looking at Proton & Pion Therapy. It was at this stage he transferred from Nuclear to Medical Physics. In 1997 he returned to Germany to join The German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg as a Research Associate, where he became a group leader in 2001 and received a Professorship of Medical Radiation Physics from Heidelberg University in 2004. During 15 years in Heidelberg, his research was focused on adaptive and image-guided radiation therapy, treatment planning and modelling and Hadron therapy. He firmly believes that Medical physics research on cancer imaging and therapy is an essential component to improve the clinical outcomes of radiation oncology.
	Teresa Paiva Neurologist Centro de Sono, Lisboa TERESA PAIVA graduated in Medicine in 1969 at the Faculty of Medicine of Lisbon, and the specialization in neurology sparked her interest in sleep-related diseases. For over thirty years she has been dedicated to watching and to teaching others how to sleep. Her work has been awarded several times and she collaborates regularly in clinical trials and research projects with worldwide experts. She has co-authored several books related to the topic of sleep, has created the EEG and Clinical Neurophysiology Center - Sleep Medicine Center and has created the world's first MSc degree in sleep. She is a university professor, neurologist, and neurophysiologist with expertise in Sleep Medicine.
	Henrique Leitão Pessoa Prize 2014 Historian of Science Faculdade de Ciências Universidade de Lisboa HENRIQUE LEITÃO is Senior Researcher at the Center for the History of Science (CIUHCT) at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he also teaches History and Philosophy of Science in the MSc Program. His research interests include the history of exact sciences in Europe from the 15th to the 17th centuries. He is also interested in the history of scientific books and collaborates regularly with the Portuguese National Library, in Lisbon. He heads the Scientific Committee in charge of the publication of the Complete Works of the sixteenth-century mathematician and cosmographer Pedro Nunes, by the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Henrique Leitão is member of various learned societies, including the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences, the European Society for the History of Science and the History of Science Society.
	Pedro Redol Historian Museu da Batalha PEDRO REDOL was born in Tomar on July 13, 1965. He graduated in History - Specialization in Art History from School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, and obtained the MSc degree in Art, Heritage and Restoration from the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. He specialized in the study and preservation of antique stained glass, a subject in which he performed several traineeships in Spain, England and German. He represents Portugal in the Corpus Vitrearum, an Institution under the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art and of the Union Académique Internationale. He has served as curator at the Batalha Monastery, Portugal, since 1987, a position which he has suspended to serve as the director of the Convento de Cristo in Tomar, director of the National Museum Machado de Castro in Coimbra, and director of Batalha Monastery. He is invited Auxiliary Professor at the Department of Conservation and Restoration of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon. He has published tens of works in Portugal, France, England e Belgium, related to the history and conservation of stained glass, history of Portuguese antique painting history, history of architecture, monuments and landscape management, and education of conservation. He is the author of the 2002 book O Mosteiro da Batalha e o Vitral em Portugal nos séculos XV e XVI.
	José Manuel Rodrigues Pessoa Prize 1999 Photographer Universidade de Évora JOSÉ MANUEL RODRIGUES was born in Lisbon in 1951. Lived in Paris, France (1968/1969) and in The Netherlands between 1969 and 1993 where studied photography. He was the co-founder of “Perspektief” and was responsible for the “Perspektief” gallery expositions program. He was a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian fellow in the dates of (1986-1987, 1995 and 1996) and received some labour grants, in 1992 from Fonds voor de Beeldende Kunst (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture), and in 1997 from Centro Nacional de Cultura de Portugal, (Portuguese Cultural National Centre). In 1982 we received the Vrije Creatieve Opdracht prize (Photography creative prize) from Raad voor de Kunst (Council for culture, Amsterdam). In 1999 was awarded, together with the poet Manuel Alegre, with the “Prémio Pessoa” (the most important award in the area of Portuguese culture). His work is represented in several private and public collections, such as: Culturgest, Museu de Serralves, BES-foto, Centro Português da Fotografia, Centro das Artes Visuais, in Portugal. In other countries; in Dutch Art Foundation, Van Reekum Galerie (Apeldoorn), Prentenkabinet (Leiden), La Bibliotheque Nationale (Paris), among others. He taught photography in several national and international schools and institutions, for example in (Rotterdam, Oporto, Évora and Caldas de Rainha). In the years of 2007 and 2008 was invited professor in Visual Arts master course from IADE-Instituto de Arte, Design e Empresa, in Lisbon. Since 2009 is invited Adjunct Professor in the Visual Arts Department of Évora University, Portugal.