President of FCT receives title of Emeritus from the University of Lisbon

Helena Pereira, Chair of the FCT Governing Board, will receive the title of Emeritus Professor from the University of Lisbon, awarded by the Higher Institute of Agronomy (ISA). The title will be presented at a ceremony to be held on Wednesday, June 22, starting at 5:00 p.m., at the Estufa Real, in the Ajuda Botanical Garden.

Helena Pereira, a former student at Técnico, is a professor at ISA, University of Lisbon. She was vice-president of FCT from 2017 to 2019, and was then appointed Chair of the FCT Governing Board, a position she currently holds. With a degree in Chemical-Industrial Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico, a PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) from the Faculty of Biology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and an aggregate degree from Instituto Superior de Agronomia, her area of research has been forests and forest products, including bioenergy and biorefineries, from an integrated and multidisciplinary perspective. She has always shown interest and commitment to gender issues in research and was president of Amonet, the Portuguese Association of Women Scientists. In December 2021, she received the Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo 2020 Award, presented by the Instituto Superior Técnico (Técnico).

Program and further information on the ISA website