Maria Paula Diogo is the new FCT Member

Maria Paula Diogo is the new member of the FCT Board of Directors. Full professor at the Department of Social and Applied Sciences of NOVA School of Science and Technology | FCT NOVA, Maria Paula Diogo is a member of CIUHCT-Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, which she coordinated for 15 years.

During her career she was awarded the two highest international distinctions granted to a historian of technology, both of which were awarded for the first time to a Portuguese, namely the Leonardo da Vinci Medal in 2020 and the Kranzberg Memorial Lecture.

In the field of research, her work focuses on the study of Portuguese engineering and engineers, especially between the mid-nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, and, more recently, on the concepts of techno-scientific diplomacy and the Anthropocene. The new FCT Vogal is also a member of research groups such as STEP(Science and Technology in the European Periphery), ToE - Tensions of Europe/Technology in the Making of the 20th century Europe and INES(International Network on Engineering Studies), as well as other research networks and international societies.

Maria Paula Diogo has also led several research projects on science, technology, and empires, the training of Portuguese engineers, and the construction of their national identity.