FCT Governing Board for the 2022-2025 term took office

The new FCT Governing Board 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 management of FCT consists 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), 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, professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (FLUP) and member of 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” programs (Recovery and Resilience Plan), at the Directorate-General for Higher Education.