FCT Board of Directors for 2022-2025 sworn in

The new FCT Board of Directors for the 2022-2025 term took office last Friday, July 1, at a session held at the Thalia Theater, in the presence of the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Elvira Fortunato, and the Secretary of State for Higher Education, Pedro Nuno Teixeira.

The new FCT board is made up of Maria Madalena dos Santos Alves (president), PhD in Chemical and Biological Engineering from the University of Minho, Director of the Center for Biological Engineering; Francisco João Duarte Cordeiro Correia dos Santos (vice-president), full professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon (UL), and researcher at INESC-ID; Amélia Maria Polónia da Silva (member), PhD in History and aggregation from the University of Porto, full professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto (FLUP) and member of the Academia Europaea - The Academy of Europe; and António Bob Moura Santos (member), PhD in Economics from ISCTE-IUL, executive coordinator of the "Impulso Jovens STEAM" and "Impulso Adultos" (Recovery and Resilience Plan) programs at the Directorate-General for Higher Education.