Specialists at Ciências

Climate change

Carlos da Camara
Mário Cachão
Pedro Miranda
Pedro M. M. Soares

Photovoltaic power plants

João Serra
M. C. Brito

Climatology

Carlos da Camara
Carlos Pires
Pedro Miranda
Pedro M. M. Soares

Energy efficiency

Marta Panão 

Energy in buildings, sustainable buildings

Guilherme Carrilho da Graça

Renewable energies, energy transition and photovoltaic technologies

José Silva
M. C. Brito

Solar energy
Harnessing clean and renewable solar energy for the energy transition. Markets, costs, technologies, potential, impacts, development, and sustainability.

João Serra
M. C. Brito

Geospatial engineering, geodesy, remote sensing

Jo​ão Catalão

Geology education
Promoting Geology education; school programs; national exams; textbooks.

Maria Carla Kullberg
João C. Duarte

Cliff and Slope Stability
Cliff collapses and slope instability: analysis, prevention and treatment measures. Cliffs and slopes in the REN (National Ecological Reserve) and in the POOC (Coastal Zone Management Plans) and POC (Coastal Zone Management Plans).

Fernando M.S.F. Marques

Climatological extreme phenomena
natural disasters: floods, droughts, earth landslides, heat waves and forest fires.

Carlos da Camara
Pedro Miranda
Pedro M. M. Soares

Geoarchaeology

A. Brum da Silveira
Nuno Pimentel

Geoenergy

Rui Baptista

Geophysics

Susana Custódio

Geology
Sedimentary Dynamics of the Coastline and Continental Shelf, Marine Geology, Structural Geology and Mountain Ranges, Geology of Madeira, Chemistry of the Earth, Scientific Dissemination, Science Communication

Filipe M. Rosas
Jorge M.R.S. Relvas
Ícaro Silva
Maria Carla Kullberg
A. Brum da Silveira
Mário A. Gonçalves 
João Cascalho
João C. Duarte
Pedro Terrinha
Francisco Fatela

Coastal Geology and Coastal Erosion

Rui Taborda

Meteorology

Carlos Pires

Mineralogy/Minerals
Natural inorganic substances; constituents of ores.

Mário A. Gonçalves

Paleoenvironments, Paleoclimatology

Francisco Fatela

Paleontology

Pedro Mocho
Elisabete Malafaia

Geological and Mining Heritage
Mainland and islands

Jorge M.R.S. Relvas
Ícaro Silva
Nuno Pimentel
A. Brum da Silveira

Seismic Hazard
Mainland, islands and Neotectonics of the offshore southwest Iberian Peninsula

Filipe M. Rosas
A. Brum da Silveira
João C. Duarte
Pedro Terrinha
Luis Matias
José Madeira

Prospecting, Exploration and Responsible Management of Mineral Resources

Jorge M.R.S. Relvas
Mário A. Gonçalves 

Surface and Groundwater Resources

Maria do Rosário Carvalho

Geological Risks
Components of geological risk in the mainland and islands

José Madeira (Ilhas)
A. Brum da Silveira
Pedro Terrinha (Mar)

Seismology

Luis Matias
Susana Custódio

Dynamic systems

Carlos Pires

Plate tectonics

Filipe M. Rosas
Ícaro Silva
João C. Duarte
Pedro Terrinha

Sea level variation due to climate change

Coastal vulnerability and risks associated with the energetic actions of the sea and climate change, tides, mean sea level rise, storms, storm surge, coastal agitation and its impact (erosion, flooding and coastal inundation), adaptation to sea level rise.

Carlos Antunes

Volcanism and Volcanic Hazard

José Madeira
A. Brum da Silveira

Climate change and extreme events
Physical-mathematical analysis and modeling of the climate system, climate change and extreme events, as well as underlying processes and environmental and social impacts. Forecasting techniques and decision support in these areas.

Rui Pita Perdigão

Tropical and Mediterranean biodiversity

Jorge Palmeirim

Tropical biodiversity, research in the PALOP countries.

Luís Catarino
Maria Cristina Duarte

Bioinformatics and population genomics

Octávio Paulo

Biology of development

Solveig Thorsteinsdóttir

Biotechnology

Andreia Figueiredo

Plant biotechnology, cellular biotechnology

Rui Malhó
Ana Margarida Fortes

Plant biotechnology, phytochemistry
Plant biotechnology uses in vitro plant cultivation techniques to, for example, optimize plant characteristics under controlled growth conditions. Phytochemistry also uses techniques to characterize the compounds produced by plants. Many of these substances are used as a source of compounds with medicinal, commercial, agronomic, and industrial importance.

José Barroso
Ana Cristina Figueiredo

Environmental sciences and sustainability

Filipe Duarte Santos

Conservation in socio-ecological systems

Rui Rebelo

Ecology (Biodiversity, climate adaptations, urban environment)

Cristina Branquinho
Cristina Máguas

Bird ecology, estuarine and marine ecology

José P. Granadeiro
Teresa Catry

Ecology of small mammals, ecotoxicology

Maria da Luz Mathias

Ecology (plant diversity, mediterranean ecosystems, museums)

Ana Isabel Correia

Evolutionary ecology
It studies the responses of populations to environmental pressures in the short (ecology) and long (evolution) term. These responses are expressed at the physiological, behavioral, or genetic level, and can affect various properties of the communities.

Sara Magalhães

Ecology (Sea and biodiversity)

Vanda Brotas
Ricardo Melo
Ana Amorim

Ecology (Marshes: Tagus Estuary)

Isabel Caçador

Ecology and environmental changes
It studies the responses of terrestrial living beings to global changes, including air pollution, changes in land use, and climate change. Responses include modifications in biodiversity and ecosystem services, measured through fieldwork and remote sensing, in ecosystems such as the montado (oak grove) and cities.

Pedro Pinho

Plant ecology, soil

Cristina Cruz

Ecotoxicology

Bernardo Duarte

Forensic entomology, pest management

Maria Teresa Rebelo

Epidemiology
Epidemiology of infectious diseases within the National Immunization Program, with emphasis on measles, meningococcal disease, HPV (human papillomavirus), and pertussis. Epidemiology of reproductive health: maternal deaths, voluntary termination of pregnancy.

Manuel Carmo Gomes

Evolutionary genetics

Vitor Sousa

Genomics

Ana Margarida Fortes
Ricardo Dias
Andreia Figueiredo

Plant Physiology

(photosynthesis and productivity, lawns, golf)

Anabela Silva

Forest (pine tree, cork oak)

Célia Miguel
Mónica Sebastiana

Photosynthesis, CO2, drought tolerance, bioethics and environmental ethics, digital agriculture

Jorge Marques da Silva

Forensic molecular markers

Deodália Dias

Microbiology (disease-causing bacteria and biotechnology)

Rogério Tenreiro

Microbiology and fermentation (wine, beer)

Ana Tenreiro

Microbiology (fungi: mushrooms)

Alan Phillips

Microbiology and health, epidemiology

Ricardo Dias

Natural products, essential oils
Natural products of plant origin are complex mixtures of compounds that can be isolated from plants using different techniques. Essential oils constitute a particular type of extract, obtained through distillation techniques, or expression in the case of citrus fruits.

Ana Cristina Figueiredo

Vineyard and wine
Investigation of the genetic diversity of vineyards and adaptation to environmental changes (climate change, diseases, among others). Analysis of different processes and mechanisms to promote the sustainability of viticulture and a circular economy. Identification of biocontrol agents and molecules with the potential to activate plant defenses.

Andreia Figueiredo

Environmental stress and functional ecology

Luís Catarino

Taxonomy, systematics, biogeography and ecology of bryophytes from Portugal and Macaronesia.

Manuela Sim-Sim

Computer Science

Ana Respício
Andreia Mordido
André Souto
Antónia Lopes
António Branco
Diana Costa
Filipe Varjão
Jean Araújo
João Pedro Neto
Sara Silva

Data Science

André Falcão
António Ferreira
Cátia Pesquita
Ibéria Medeiros
Diogo F. Soares
Francisco Couto
Helena Aidos
Luís Correia
Márcia Barros
Nuno Cruz Garcia
Paulo Urbano
Sara C. Madeira

Software Engineering

Alcides Fonseca
Andreia Mordido
Antónia Lopes
António Ferreira
Carlos Lourenço
Filipe Varjão
João Pedro Neto
Letícia Pereira

Biomedical Informatics

Carlos Teixeira
Francisco Couto
Helena Aidos
Márcia Barros
Sara C. Madeira
Soraia Meneses Alarcão
Tiago Guerreiro

Artificial Intelligence

Alcides Fonseca
André Falcão
António Branco
Carlos Lourenço
Cátia Pesquita
Diogo F. Soares
João Bimbo
João Balsa
Luis Antunes
Luís Correia
Luís Moniz
Nuno Cruz Garcia
Paulo Urbano
Sara Silva
Thibault Langlois
Vânia Mendonça

Human-Computer Interaction

Ana Paula Afonso
André Rodrigues
Carlos Duarte
Carlos Teixeira
João Balsa
João Guerreiro
Letícia Pereira
Manuel J. Fonseca
Soraia Meneses Alarcão
Teresa Chambel
Tiago Guerreiro
Vânia Mendonça

Games and Virtual Environments

Ana Paula Cláudio
André Rodrigues
João Guerreiro
Luís Moniz
Maria Beatriz Carmo

Information Security

Alan Oliveira
Alysson Bessani
Ana Respício
António Casimiro
Bernardo Ferreira
Dulce Domingos
Ibéria Medeiros
José Cecílio
Mário Calha
Nuno Neves
Vinicius Vielmo Cogo

Distributed Systems and Networks

Alysson Bessani
António Casimiro
Bernardo Ferreira
Hugo Miranda
José Cecílio
Mário Calha
Nuno Neves
Pedro M. Ferreira
Vinicius Vielmo Cogo

Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems

Alan Oliveira
Ana Paula Afonso
Dulce Domingos
Hugo Miranda

Astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology

Rui Agostinho
José Afonso
José Pedro Mimoso
Pedro Mota Machado

Biophysics and biological physics
Biophysics uses experimental methodologies from physics to make measurements in biological systems. Biological physics uses theories of physics, computational simulation, and mathematical modeling to establish the operating principles of biological systems.

Patrícia  Faísca
Hugo Ferreira

Condensed physics
Condensed matter physics

Nuno Araújo

Interdisciplinary Physics

Nuno Araújo
Patrícia  Faísca

Space

Alexandre Cabral
António Amorim

Nuclear physics, particles

Luís Peralta

Health, medical technologies, biomedical engineering

Raquel Conceição
Hugo Ferreira
Nuno Matela

Algebra, discrete mathematics

Maria Manuel Torres

Multicriteria analysis

Maria Eugénia Captivo

Biostatistics

Lisete Sousa
Marília Antunes

Nonlinear partial differential equations, free boundary problems, continuity mechanics, mathematical museology, and communication of mathematical sciences.

José Francisco Rodrigues

Applied Statistics

Maria Isabel Fraga Alves
Patrícia de Zea Bermudez
Teresa Alpuim

Bayesian Statistics

Patrícia de Zea Bermudez
Marília Antunes

Computational statistics

Maria Isabel Fraga Alves
Marília Antunes
Patrícia de Zea Bermudez

Medical statistics

Lisete Sousa
Marília Antunes

Statistics of extremes

Kamil Feridum Turkman
Patrícia de Zea Bermudez
Maria Isabel Fraga Alves

Statistics in the health sciences

Helena Mouriño

Official statistics

Luísa Loura

Geometry, mathematical physics

Carlos Florentino

Financial management

João Telhada
Raquel João Fonseca

Information management

João Telhada

Operations management

Francisco Saldanha Gama

Production and supply management

João Telhada
Miguel Fragoso Constantino
Raquel João Fonseca

Risk and investment management

Raquel João Fonseca

Transport management

Ana Paias

Graphs, networks and telecommunications

Luís Gouveia
Pedro Martins Moura

Statistical inference

Maria Isabel Fraga Alves
Patrícia de Zea Bermudez
Teresa Alpuim

Logistics

Ana Paias
Francisco Saldanha Gama

Quantitative marketing

Helena Mouriño

Economic models and forecasting

Teresa Alpuim

Combinatorial and discrete optimization

Miguel Fragoso Constantino

Stochastic optimization

Francisco Saldanha Gama

Risk and actuarial calculation

Maria Isabel Fraga Alves

Decision support systems

Maria Eugénia Captivo

Chaos theory, computational mathematics, mathematical analysis, functions

Jorge Buescu

Accreditation of chemical tests

Ricardo Bettencourt Silva

Water analysis

José Manuel Nogueira

Bioenergetics

Manuela Pereira
Belarmino A. S. Barata

Bioinorganic

Belarmino A. S. Barata

Computational biology

Francisco Pinto

Systems biology

Francisco Pinto

Biomedicine

Carlos Miguel Farinha

Biochemistry

Carlos Miguel Farinha

Computational biochemistry and biophysics

Development of computational methods to study the structure and movement of proteins and membranes in our cells. We are very interested in understanding how drugs/medications manage to cross our membranes, enter cells, and then interact with proteins, modulating their functions. Study of the effects of pH on these biological molecules and how this has consequences in various diseases.

Miguel Machuqueiro

Protein structure calculation

Belarmino A. S. Barata

Understanding resistance in chemotherapy.
Currently, one of the biggest problems in chemotherapy treatments is the emergence of drug resistance. There are countless factors in tumor cells that lead to the development of this resistance. In collaboration with a group from Israel (Technion, Haifa), we are developing computational methodologies that help to understand how factors as simple as acidity contribute to the creation of chemotherapy resistance.

Miguel Machuqueiro

Doping detection in sports

Ricardo Bettencourt Silva

Neurodegenerative diseases

Cláudio M.Gomes
Amélia Pilar Rauter
Rodrigo Almeida
Federico Herrera
Diana Cunha Reis

Human genetic diseases

Carlos Miguel Farinha

Electro and photoconversion of small molecules

Paulo Nuno Martinho

Epilepsy

Diana Cunha Reis

Mass spectrometry in proteomics and metabolomics

Carlos Cordeiro

Extremophilia

Belarmino A. S. Barata

Gene expression

Carlos Miguel Farinha

Reliability and quality of chemical analysis results.

Ricardo Bettencourt Silva

Cystic fibrosis

Margarida Amaral
Carlos Miguel Farinha

Hydrometallurgy and metal extraction

Ana Paula Paiva

Impact of pesticides

José Manuel Nogueira

Infection

Filomena Martins
Susana Santos
Amélia Pilar Rauter

Artificial intelligence in biosciences

António Ferreira

Interpretation of chemical information

Ricardo Bettencourt Silva

Magnetic switches and sensors

Paulo Nuno Martinho

Molecular magnetism and quantum computing

Paulo Nuno Martinho

Personalized medicine

Francisco Pinto

Microbial metabolism

Manuela Pereira

Environmental monitoring

José Manuel Nogueira
Ricardo Bettencourt Silva

Food monitoring

Ricardo Bettencourt Silva

New fuels

Ana Cristino

New diagnostic and antitumor therapies based on acidity.
Acidity is a marker of tumor cells, and we know that the more aggressive the tumor, the more acidic its microenvironment. In collaboration with researchers from the USA (Yale and Rhode Island), we are developing a delivery vehicle for fluorescent markers or chemopharmaceuticals that takes advantage of the acidity of tumors to diagnose and/or annihilate tumor cells before symptoms appear.

Miguel Machuqueiro

New drugs optimized for the treatment of tuberculosis.
Use of computational techniques to calculate and predict the antituberculosis activity of new isoniazid derivatives. In collaboration with groups from the USA (Auburn), Canada (Manitoba) and Ciências ULisboa, we seek to improve the biological activity of this commercial prodrug, especially in cases of mutations in the KatG protein, which are at the origin of resistant and multidrug-resistant strains of tuberculosis.

Miguel Machuqueiro

Anthropogenic pollution

José Manuel Nogueira

Chemical pollution

José Manuel Nogueira
Elisabete Silva

Medicinal products and food supplements

Maria Eduarda Araújo
Maria Luísa Serralheiro
Cristina Moiteiro
Amélia Pilar Rauter

Proteins

Carlos Miguel Farinha

Clinical proteomics

Biomedical use of C60 carbon (fullerene).

Vukosava Torres

Forensic analytical chemistry: drugs, explosives, and fingerprints.

Carlos Cordeiro

Chemistry of grapevines and wine: analytical methods and resistance to infections.

Marta Sousa Silva

Carbohydrate chemistry, a sustainable chemistry

Amélia Pilar Rauter

Biological networks

Francisco Pinto

Reduction and valorization of carbon dioxide

Paulo Nuno Martinho

Refrigeration

Fernando J. V. Santos
Ana Cristino
Xavier Paredes Méndez

Spins in proteins

Belarmino A. S. Barata

Bioethics

Davide Vecchi

Cartography

Joaquim Alves Gaspar
Henrique Leitão

Science in the Age of Discovery

Joaquim Alves Gaspar
Henrique Leitão

Science in Portugal
Scientific communities, power and politics in Portugal (18th-20th centuries), including scientific dissemination in newspapers.

Ana Simões

Science in the 18th century

Francisco Malta Romeiras

Science and city

Ana Simões

Science and pseudoscience

João L. Cordovil

Science and religion

Francisco Malta Romeiras

Science, science policy and society

Mara Almeida

Philosophy and evolution

Davide Vecchi, Lorenzo Baravalle e Nathalie Gontier

Philosophy of physics

João L. Cordovil e Daniele Molinini

Philosophy of mathematics

Daniele Molinini e Bruno Jacinto

Philosophy of technology

Alexander Gerner e Klaus Gartner

History of botany

Ana Duarte Rodrigues

History of science

Henrique Leitão

History of gardens

Ana Duarte Rodrigues

History of mathematical games

Pedro Freitas

History of mathematics

Pedro Freitas

History of quantum chemistry

Ana Simões

Mathematics and art

Pedro Freitas

Metaphysics of science

Gil Santos

Inquisition

Francisco Malta Romeiras