Elvira Fortunato is the winner of the Pessoa Prize 2020

FCT welcomes the award of the Pessoa 2020 Prize to researcher Elvira Fortunato. This is a meritorious recognition of her exceptional professional dedication to Portuguese scientific and technological development, and one that FCT is pleased to be able to count on as President of the Scientific Council for Exact Sciences and Engineering, an advisory body that supports FCT's Board of Directors.

The FCT is taking this opportunity to recover an interview with researcher Elvira Fortunato, conducted at the Science 2020 Meeting, in which she talks about the importance of science.