Peter Villax Peter Villax was born in Lisbon in 1958 and studied at the French Lycées in Lisbon and in London (1962-1976). He graduated in Politics and Economics (joint Master of Arts) at the University of Aberdeen (UK) (1977-1982).
He started his professional career as a trainee in the semi-conductor company International Rectifier (El Segundo, Cal.) and thereafter joined the family business, Hovione, as a computer programmer. He joined the Hovione Board of Directors in 1991 and has worked in the area of inhaled drug products, innovation, product development and venture capital.

Affiliations and awards:
President of the Portuguese Family Business Association, 2007-present.
Member of the Board, Health Cluster Portugal, 2008-2017.
External member of the Board:
• Institute of Chemical and Biological Technology, Nova University, 2009-present
• Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra, 2010-present
Member of the Expert Group on family business, Commission of the European Union, 2007-2009.
Awarded Medal of Industrial Merit by the President of Portugal, 2006.

Maria Carmo-Fonseca is Full Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon and President of the Institute of Molecular Medicine, a national center of excellence for biomedical research associated with the Faculty of Medicine.

Carmo-Fonseca is member of several scientific organizations such as the European Molecular Biology Organization and the Portuguese Academy of Sciences. She has been serving in numerous scientific committees for the EMBO, the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, and the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. She has received the Comenda Ordem de Sant’iago de Espada Distinguished Career National Award (2001), the Iberian DuPont Science Award (2002), the Gulbenkian Science Award (2007), and Prémio Pessoa National Award in Arts, Science and Culture (2010).

Carmo-Fonseca is monitoring editor for the Journal of Cell Science, and has been serving as scientific reviewer for several journals including Nature, Cell, Molecular Cell, Nature Cell Biology, Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, and The EMBO Journal.

The vision of the research group headed by Carmo-Fonseca is to understand how RNA molecules, with their ability to both encode information and exert catalytic activities, contribute to the regulation of gene expression and how this knowledge can be translated into novel disease biomarkers and therapies.

Carmo-Fonseca has authored more than 150 original research articles, review articles and book chapters with a total of over 7 thousand citations (h index 48, ISI Web of Knowledge – All Databases).

Lino Santos has a Master in Law and Security from NOVA Law School and a degree in Systems
and Computer Engineering from University of Minho. He is a PhD candidate at Nova Law School.
In the Cybersecurity field, he was head of CERT.PT from 2000 to 2017, first at FCCN and, since
2014, as Coordinator of operations at the National Cybersecurity Center; member of the National
Cybersecurity Center installing committee; National Liaison Officer for ENISA from 2008 until
2017; and President of the General Assembly of the portuguese CSIRT Network until 2017.

EDUCATION (academic titles)

Electrotechnical Engineer –  Instituto Superior Técnico (IST- Technical University of Lisbon, 1974, final grade 18.3 (out of 20) )

Ph.D. in Physics, University of Chicago (1979),

Coordinator Researcher (conferred by INETI, 1996)

“Agregação” (conferred by Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Materials Science Department, in the topic of  Energy, 1986)

EXPERIENCE  

At present he is at the University of Évora, Chairman of the Renewable Energies Chair, Director of IIFA – Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada of the University of Évo.  Founder and President of the Board of IPES- Instituto Português de Energia Solar,  founder and President of SUN AID (an NGO dedicated to the alleviation of poverty in the World through the provision of (solar) energy access). Until November 2014 he was President of the Scientific and Pedagogical Council of IIFA.

He is the author of the book   “Energias Renováveis – a Opção Inadiável” and co-author and editor of other books. He is the author of more than 220 scientific papers on non imaging optics, for applications in illumination and in solar thermal and photovoltaic concentrators, on solar radiation statistics, on methods for solar systems performance evaluation and prediction , on solar cookers, on photocatalysis for solar UV treatment of contaminated water, on desalination, on greenhouses, on solar drying, on solar ponds and on materials and solutions for radiative surfaces, in particular on selective coatings.    He is also the author of over a dozen patents in optics, in particular for solar thermal collectors and applications like solar electricity , photo catalysis and air conditioning, as well as the author of several TV science programs, dedicated to the topic Energy.

Up to 2006, he was Coordinator Researcher at  INETI (Instituto Nacional de Engenharia e Tecnologia Industrial) within the Renewable Energies Department, simultaneously pursuing an University career- professorship-  at the Physics Department of IST ( Technical University of Lisbon) and at New University of Lisbon. He was also Founder and twice President of Centro para a Conservação de Energia (the acting Portuguese Energy Agency), founder and twice President of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Energia Solar (Portuguese Section of ISES- International Solar Energy Society ). He was also President of  ACTD – Associação de Ciência e Tecnologia para o Desenvolvimento (conceiving and operating travelling science and technology exhibits for young people, organized around the topic of Energy) .

He represented the Portuguese Government in several high level Steering Committees  for European Union Renewable Energy R,D Programs. He also played a similar role within the CYTED Iberian and Latin American Program, being in charge of several tasks within the SubProgram VI, for Renewable Energies in the Rural World.

He has created and worked for several companies as CSO, dedicated to solar thermal collectors manufacture ( TECSO, SETSOL, AO SOL) and, from 2006 to 2009, to  the Portuguese companies ESTP and T-ESTP, dedicated to Solar Thermal Electricity production,  in association with SOLAR  HEAT and POWER ( Australia), later  becoming AUSRA (U.S.A) for a project of 6.5MWe in Tavira, Algarve

In 2007/2010,  he was appointed  by ESTIF ( the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation of which he was one of the founders), leader of the Collector Group of the ESTTP –European Solar Thermal Technology Platform, in charge of proposing the Strategic Research Agenda up to the year 2030.

Since 2011 he integrates the Strategic and Technical Committee of ESTELA (European Solar Thermal Electricity Association).

Since 2012, he is member of the board of Trustees of the European Environmental Foundation

He is member of the (Portuguese) Engineering Academy and at present member of its General Assembly Board

He has also been the Chairman of several ISES Iberian and Latin American Congresses in the field of Solar Energy and in 2008 the Scientific Chairman of EUROSUN 2008 , a joint effort of   ISES (International Solar Energy Society) and the Solar Heating and Cooling Program of the IEA (International Energy Agency).

In October 2008 he got the International Energy Agency (IEA) Solar Heating and Cooling Award for life time achievement in the area of Solar Energy with relevance to Heating and Cooling

Languages mastered: fluent in Portuguese, English, Spanish, French; reading knowledge of Italian and German

Miguel Correia is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa), inLisboa, Portugal. He is a senior researcher at INESC-ID in the Distributed Systems Group (GSD). He has a PhD in Computer Science from the Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. He has been involved in several international and national research projects related to intrusion tolerance and security, including the SafeCloud, PCAS, TCLOUDS, ReSIST, CRUTIAL, and MAFTIA European projects. He has more than 100 publications and is Senior Member of the IEEE. His main research interests are: cyber-security, cloud computing, software security, big data analytics for security, critical infrastructure protection, distributed systems, machine learning for security, and intrusion tolerance.

James Yates

James Yates is the head of the Single Molecule Processes Laboratory at ITQB and the owner of Nanopore Solutions Lda. James has been teaching Scientific Writing as a part of the Molecular Biosciences and Sustainable Chemistry PhD Programmes for the last 2 years. DPhil Biochemistry, University of Oxford (2006). MBioc, University of Oxford (2001).

This interactive workshop will attempt to do the following:
-Examine the structure of a typical research article
-Remove the fear about writing by breaking down the process into manageable sections
-Highlight common mistakes
-Provide help with figures and graphical abstracts