Susana Cardoso de Freitas is an Associated Professor at the Physics Department at Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) and principal investigator at INESC-MN. Her research interests include advanced thin films for nanoelectronics and magnetic sensors for challenging applications.

She graduated in Technological Physics Engineering (IST, 1996) and holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics (IST, 2002).

In 2002 she was a “Co-op Pre-Professional Engineer” at IBM, T.J.Watson Research Center (USA). After, she became a researcher at INESC-MN, and is the co-leader of the Magnetics & Spintronics group since 2006. She was one of the team members awarded as 2nd finalist for the EU Descartes Prize for Research in 2004 for the work in magnetic memories for the future nanoelectronics. Since then she coordinated and participated as principal researcher in several EU and national projects, with a strong collaboration between INESC-MN and the industry for advanced materials, devices and integrated systems for robotics, biomedical and industrial applications.

She is one of the Directors at INESC-MN and an Associated Professor at the Physics Department (IST) since 2015, and is responsible for student coordination and educational activities related with nanoelectronics, microfabrication and spintronics. She was appointed Coordinator for the Educational Activities of the IEEE Portugal section in 2015.

Susana Cardoso de Freitas was a recipient of the Honorable Mention in Scientific Awards ULisboa/Santander in 2016, 2017 and 2018, and an award by the Magnetic Society of Japan in 2014. In 2018 she was selected as one of “100 Women in Science” by the Portuguese Agency of Science and Technology “Ciência Viva”. In 2019 she was Elected Associate Member Delegate to the European Physics Society (EPS) Council (2019)

She has been invited for several international conferences and is co-author of over 290 publications and 20 chapter books. Her activity includes intensive collaborations with industrial partners for technology transfer related with sensors and 3 patents. Since 2019 she is one of the “Ambassador for the Innovation” group at IST.

Jorge Fernandes (S’97-M’00-SM’10) was born in Lisbon in 1966. He received the Degree in electrical engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 1989, and the M.Sc., Ph.D., and Habilitation degrees from the same university in 1993, 2000, and 2010, respectively. He joined the teaching staff of the Department of Electrical Engineering at IST, in 1990, and has been with the Analog and Mixed-Mode Circuits Group, INESC-ID Lisboa, since 1989. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 2000 and 2018, and Columbia University, New York, USA, in 2008. His current research interests include analog, mixed signal and RF circuits, with an emphasis on autonomous sensor circuits and low-power RF frontends. Dr. Fernandes has been a member of the Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society since 2006 and CASS representative on IEEE Technical Committee on RFID since 2015. He was the General Co-chair of the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in 2015.

Paulo Ferrão is Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico – University of Lisbon, and co-founder of IN+, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research. He is the the President of the COST association. He has been the President of Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia from 2016 to 2019, and Director of the MIT-Portugal Program from 1996 to 2016. He is a member of the Environmental Advisory Committee of Rolls-Royce.

He has been active in the area of “Sustainable Cities”, where he co-authored a book at MIT-Press on “Sustainable Urban Metabolism”. He is a member of the European Commission Mission Board on “Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities”, and he has been engaged with the U.S. National Academies as a member of the Sustainability Roundtable, the Committee on “Sustainability Linkages in the Federal Government” and the committee of “Pathways to Urban Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the United States”. His scientific career has evolved within the areas of “Laser diagnostics for turbulent combustion”, “Energy Systems” and “Industrial Ecology”.

He is author and co-author of nine books and more than hundred peer-reviewed papers published in scientific journals and a variety of book chapters and over hundred papers presented in conferences and invited talks in different domains.

Nuno Maulide was born in Lisbon in 1979. After graduating in chemistry from the Instituto Superior Tecnico in 2003, he completed an M.Sc. at the Ecole Polytechnique in 2004 (Summa cum Laude, ranking 1st out of 22 students) and received his Ph.D. from the Universite catholique de Louvain in 2007.He subsequently moved to Stanford University under Barry M. Trost for postdoctoral studies before returning to Europe to take an endowed position as Max-Planck Research Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Kohlenforschung in early 2009. Since October 2013 he is Full Professor and Chair of Organic Synthesis at the University of Vienna. His research interests span diverse areas within organic chemistry, focusing on unconventional reaction mechanisms and intermediates. Nuno Maulide has been elected “Scientist of the Year” 2018-19 in Austria and is the youngest Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has received among others the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award (2012), the ADUC prize of the German Chemical Society (2012), the Elisabeth Lutz Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2016), the Lieben Prize (2019) and the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award (2020). Furthermore, he is an ERC Starting (2011), Consolidator (2016) and Proof of Concept (2018) Grantee.

Francisco José Viegas nasceu em 1962. Professor, jornalista e editor, é responsável pela revista Ler e foi também diretor da revista Grande Reportagem e da Casa Fernando Pessoa. De junho de 2011 a outubro de 2012 exerceu o cargo de Secretário de Estado da Cultura. Colaborou em vários jornais e revistas, e foi autor de vários programas na rádio (TSF e Antena Um) e televisão (Livro Aberto, Escrita em Dia, Ler para Crer, Primeira Página, Avenida Brasil, Prazeres, Um Café no Majestic, A Torto e a Direito, Nada de Cultura). Da sua obra destacam-se livros de poesia (Metade da Vida, O Puro e o Impuro, Se Me Comovesse o Amor) e os romances Regresso por um Rio, Crime em Ponta Delgada, Morte no Estádio, As Duas Águas do Mar, Um Céu Demasiado Azul, Um Crime na Exposição, Um Crime Capital, Lourenço Marques, Longe de Manaus (Grande Prémio de Romance e Novela da Associação Portuguesa de Escritores 2005), O Mar em Casablanca, O Colecionador de Erva e A Poeira que Cai sobre a Terra e Outras Histórias de Jaime Ramos.

Carlos Fiolhais (Lisbon, 1956) is professor of Physics at the Universidade de Coimbra, writer and science comunicator. Has published more than 150 papers, one of them with more than 18.000 citations. Among his books are the following titles:  “Física Divertida”. “Pipocas com Telemóvel”, “A Ciência e os seus Inimigos” e “Obras Pioneiras da Cultura Portuguesa”. Edits the book collection “Cîência Aberta” (Gradiva). Was Director of the General Library of the  University of Coimbra and responsible for the Knowledge Program of the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. He appeared in various media: now is in a cultural talk-show in SIC.  He received  various prizes and distinctions, including  “Globo de Ouro” in Science of SIC (2005),  “Ordem do Infante D. Henrique” (2005), “Grande Prémio Ciência Viva” (2017) and “Prémio José Mariano Gago” by thre Portuguese Authors Society  (2018)

Mrs Sónia Antunes is since 2009 working as Project Officer at EMSA (the European Maritime Safety Agency), in Lisbon, active in the Earth Observation Services Section. She has been involved mainly in the CleanSeaNet service: the European service to detect and monitor oil spills from space, based on radar satellite imagery. She was also managing for some years the EMSA contracts for optical satellites, used in the context of the Copernicus Maritime Services. Before, Sonia has worked at EDISOFT S.A. private company, in the Space Applications segment.

Her background is remote sensing and computer science. She graduated in Physical Engineering at Technical University in Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico), and in Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich.  She has a Phd in Electronic Engineering, from the Instituto Superior Técnico, with a Thesis on ‘Oil spill detection using ASAR and MERIS data’.  She is a member of Ordem dos Engenheiros in the Colégio Electrotécnica.

Hugo has a Degree in Mining and Georesources Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico and a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences applied to reservoir characterization also from IST. During his Ph.D, has won a Luso-American Foundation / Fulbright grant for Ph.D. to be a visiting student in Stanford University, USA.

Started his industry career in Partex Oil & Gas in 2007. For 6 years, was seconded to ADCO/ADNOC Onshore company in Abu Dhabi UAE.

Has papers, book chapter and presented several presentations on international congresses about reservoir characterization applied to oil & gas.

Has been a collaborator of CERENA, supporting and adviser for Ph.D and Master students.

Graduated in Civil Engineering in 2010, in 2016 he completed the PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Lisbon, specializing in structural glass applications. He has developed studies in structural glass applications in construction and developed a prototype of glass beam reinforced with composite material. During his academic career, he worked at Universitat Politècnica da Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) and at École Politechnique Fédéral de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland).

He is currently a project manager at ACCIONA (water treatment department), a world leader company in water treatment systems, namely desalination by reverse osmosis. In Portugal he participated in the construction of waste and water treatment plants, the most notable being the new dissolved air flotation process lines at Algarve (more than 107 000 m3/day). Presently its main interests are structural glass (European structural standard development), hydraulics, wastewater and water treatments systems, project managing applied to construction, digital transformation, and energy consumption reduction applied to construction.

“Graduated in 2006 in Biological Engineering, he also holds a MSc in Biological Engineering and a PhD in Biotechnology from Instituto Superior Técnico. Francisco founded Cell2B Advanced Therapeutics (2011) and BoostPharma (2015) where he served as Chief Scientific Officer. Cell2B focused on the development of cell therapies for the cure of immune and inflammatory diseases. The leading program of the company, for acute Graft versus Host Disease reach first in man with promising results. Since then he also worked at StemCell2MAX and served as manager at the Portuguese Clinical Research Infrastructure (PtCRIN at NOVA Medical School).

Francisco joined Stemlab SA (Crioestaminal) in 2018 as the Director of Cell Therapy Business Unit and he is focused on promoting the development of innovative cell-based therapies for unmet clinical needs.”

Helena is a Senior Research Officer (with Habilitation for Research Coordination) at the National Civil Engineering Laboratory of Portugal and Director of the Hydraulics and Environment Department, co-ordinating a 120 people problem-driven research team dedicated to water resources, water services and water infrastructures. Her main areas of scientific expertise include performance assessment, asset management and water & energy efficiency of urban water systems. She is a  expert and National delegate of two ISO Technical Committees, dedicated to Asset Management (ISO/TC 251) and water services activities ISO/TC224) and chaired the corresponding Portuguese Standardisation Technical Committees for several years (CT90 and CT204). IWA Fellow, she is a member of the IWA Digital Water Steering Committee and member of the Management Committees of the IWA Strategic Asset Management (SAM SG), and Benchmarking and Performance Assessment Specialist Groups. She was IWA Senior Vice-President (2010/12), Board Member (1999/2001; 2010/12), Strategic Council Member (2009-2010 and 2012-2019) and chair of the SAM SG (2007-2018).  Helena is author or co-author of more than 500 publications, including ca. 20 books.

Rodolfo serves as Senior Associate at Armilar Venture Partners, Portugal’s leading VC funds manager, focused on early-stage technology-based startups in ICT, HealthTech and CleanTech. He has a degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Rodolfo started his career as a Trainee at the European Space Agency and has over 14 years of prior experience in space strategy, technology transfer, IP and sales.

Leonel Sousa is a Professor (“Professor Catedrático”) of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DEEC) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, in Portugal, and a Senior Researcher of INESC-ID. His research interests include high performance and parallel computing, micro-architectures for general purpose and specialized processors, and multimedia systems. He has been responsible for several research projects at national and international level and  contributed  to  more than  250  papers  in  journals  and  international  conferences,   for   which   he   received   several   awards. He is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers and the IEEE Access. He is Fellow of the IET-FIET (2013), Distinguished Scientist of ACM (2015) and Senior Member of IEEE (2004).

Miguel Tavares da Silva was born in 1970. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) obtained in 2003. He is presently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of IST, where he serves since 1997, and a Researcher at Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica (IDMEC). He was the founder of the Biomechanics of Movement course at IST, a course that he taught for more than a decade. He actively participated in the creation of the Lisbon Biomechanics Laboratory, at IST, and he is presently its executive director. With background in multibody systems dynamics (MSD), his research interests encompass biomechanics of movement, musculoskeletal modeling, and experimental movement analysis, applied to the design of medical devices for rehabilitation and human enhancement. He is the coordinator of the Biomechanics of Movement Research Group (BMRG) at IDMEC and his research activity is funded by national and international institutions through several research projects that he leads. Dr. Tavares da Silva has been awarded a number of times for his teaching and research. Among others, he received the best Ph.D. Thesis Award from Associação Portuguesa de Mecânica Teórica Aplicada e Computacional (APMTAC), the Crossley Award from the journal of Mechanism and Machine Theory, and the Excellence in Teaching Award from IST. He is presently a member of the Pedagogical Council of IST and a member of Laboratório Associado de Energia Transportes e Aeronautica (LAETA).

“Some reflections about the publication of papers in international journals”

João Ramôa Correia is Full Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. He holds a 5-year degree in Civil (Structural) Engineering, a MSc in Construction and a PhD in Civil Engineering. He teaches courses related with Construction Technology and Building Pathology and Rehabilitation. He coordinates a research group (CORE Lab) at IST, which conducts research, development and teaching activities on advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite systems for civil engineering applications. The main research areas of the CORE Lab are the mechanical behaviour of FRP composites systems, connection technology, long term performance, durability, fire behaviour and sustainability. João Ramôa Correia is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Composites for Construction (Associate Editor), Composite Structures, Fire Safety Journal and Advances in Structural Engineering (Associate Editor). In 2012, he was the recipient of the IABSE Prize and in 2016 he received the IIFC Distinguished Young Researcher Award.

“Some reflections about the publication of papers in international journals”

Isabel Cristina Gonçalves graduated at the Faculdade de Psicologia (Psychology Faculty) of Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon) in 1989, in the field of Psychotherapy and Counseling.

In 2001, she completed her training as a Psychotherapist at the Associação Portuguesa de Psicoterapia Comportamental e Cognitiva – APTCC (Portuguese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy), with a thesis entitled “Psychological Counseling Services at the University context – the role of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy”. Isabel is a Specialist Psychologist in Clinical and Health Psychology, and, also, in Educational Psychology. She holds the advanced specialties of Psychotherapy and Psychological Coaching, certified by the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses – OPP).

She was a founding member of the Professional Association “Rede de Serviços de Aconselhamento Psicológico no Ensino Superior” (Network of Psychological Counseling Services in Higher Education), and she implemented and coordinated the Serviço de Apoio Psicológico (Psychological Support Service) at the Instituto Superior Técnico, between 1993 and 2006. She was the Committee Chairwoman of the OPP’s Internships from 2011 to 2014.

She founded (in 2005) and coordinates up to today the Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Académico (Academic Development Office) at Instituto Superior Técnico (before called Gabinete de Apoio ao Tutorado – Tutoring Support Office). She has published several works in her fields of interest, and she has participated in many national and international research projects. Isabel is taking her PhD at the Faculdade de Psicologia of Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon Psychology Faculty).

Luis M. Correia was born in Portugal, in 1958.  He received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST (University of Lisbon) in 1991, where he is currently a Professor in Telecommunications, with his work focused on Wireless/Mobile Communications in the areas of propagation, channel characterisation, radio networks, traffic, and applications, with the research activities developed in the INESC-ID institute.  He has acted as a consultant for the Portuguese telecommunications operators and regulator, besides other public and private entities, and has been in the Board of Directors of a telecommunications company.  Besides being responsible for research projects at the national level, he has participated in 31 projects within European frameworks, having coordinated 6 and taken leadership responsibilities at various levels in many others.  He has supervised more than 200 M.Sc./Ph.D. students, having edited 6 books, contribute to European strategic documents, and authored more than 500 papers in international and national journals and conferences, for which served also as a reviewer, editor and board member.  Internationally, he was part of 36 Ph.D. juries, and 63 research projects and institutions evaluation committees for funding agencies in 12 countries and the European Commission.  He has been the Chairman of Conference, of the Technical Programme Committee and of the Steering Committee of various major conferences, besides other several duties.  He was a National Delegate to the COST Domain Committee on ICT.  He was active in the European Net!Works platform, by being an elected member of its Expert Advisory Group and of its Steering Board, and the Chairman of its Working Group on Applications, and was also elected to the European 5G PPP Association.  He has launched and served as Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Portugal Chapter.

Title:”How to Prepare an Excellent Presentation (or at Least an Acceptable One)?”

The workshop addresses the guidelines on how to prepare an excellent presentation of one’s work, which can range from a paper in a conference to a thesis before a committee.  The workshop intends to be very interactive, so participants are requested to send in advance examples of presentations they have previously given, one of them being chosen to start the workshop.  Afterwards, one presents the key aspects to take into consideration when preparing a presentation, considering structure of information and identification of the audience’s expectations and constraints.  Then, a detailed view on how to prepare the actual presentation information is addressed, accounting for all existing recommendations.  The logistics involved in giving a presentation are also shown.  The initial presentation is given again, modified according to the recommendations, in order to highlight the diffenreces.  Conclusions are presented at the end.

Head of Communications at Instituto Superior Técnico. Lecturer in Science Communication and Social Media for Scientists at FCSH NOVA and Universidade Nova de Lisboa Doctoral School. Coordinator of science radio show 90 Segundos de Ciência. Founder and current President of Portuguese Science Communicators Network SciComPT.

Former Head of Communications at ITQB NOVA (2016-2019), former Director at Centro Ciência Viva de Sintra (2014-2016), former researcher in Promotion and Administration of Science and Technology (2012-2015).

Title: “Science Communication for Researchers”

“Science isn’t finished unless it is communicated”, as stated by Sir Mark Walport translates in a very simple way that doing research isn’t an end to itself. Until the knowledge created in the research units is translated into something meaningful for lay audiences it hasn’t yet fulfilled its purpose. We will discuss ways that can be used by researchers to better convey their messages to the non experts, be it fundamental or applied science, and do some simple exercises to get PhD students started down this path.

Title: “Social Media for Researchers”

In the last decade, online tools and social media have exploded in popularity and usage. Science has to reach such diverse audiences and make itself heard among misinformation, fake news and pseudoscience, it has to get people where they are with interesting and reliable content. Not to do it would be a waste of opportunity. Also, using social media provides the possibility to have society interact directly with the scientific community, breaking down communication barriers and promoting close interaction that fosters trust which is the first step to have a fruitful connection. We will explore the social media landscape and its potential for scientists to communicate their science and comment on current themes, and do some practical exercises, from a paper to a tweet.

João is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, Portugal. He has a PhD in Computer Science and has been doing research in Distributed Systems ate INESC-ID, with a main focus on the mobile computing.

Title:”LaTeX 101 – A soft introduction to scientific typesetting”

I completed a BSc and an MSc in Computer Science at Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon. I first worked in Machine Learning during an internship at INESC-ID focused on neural network models for poetry generation. In my MSc I specialized in Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering and my thesis was on optimization for Architecture and Structural Engineering with Prof António Leitão, as part of the Algorithmic Design for Architecture group. In 2018 I joined Microsoft Research Cambridge as part of the inaugural cohort of the Artificial Intelligence Residency – a training program for Machine Learning engineers. As part of this one year program, I worked with the InnerEye team on brain tumour segmentation and with the SmartReply team on automated reply suggestions for Outlook and Microsoft Teams. After the Residency, I joined Microsoft’s All Data AI team as a Research Software Engineer. During this time, I worked on multiple problems, including video classification, code autocompletion, and mesh generation. Most of my time was spent working on the recently announced project HSD (Holographic Storage Devices), where we use a combination of physics, optics, and machine learning to read and write data as holograms.