To be held on February 12, 2025, between 5:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., at the Portugal Pavilion (Parque das Nações).
Biography
Born in Coimbra in 1956, António Cruz Serra is currently an executive director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, where he has held office since 12 May, 2022.
From 1978 to 2022, he was a Full Professor in the scientific area of Electronics of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.
He was the Rector of Universidade de Lisboa from 2013 to 2021, and the Rector of the Instituto Superior Técnico de Lisboa from 2012 to 2013, as well as being the Chair of the Instituto Superior Técnico from 2009 to 2012, Deputy Chair for Administrative Affairs of the Instituto Superior Técnico from 2002 to 2008, a Member of the Executive Committee for Fusion for Energy from 2007 to 2009, Chair of IMEKO - the International Measurement Confederation from 2009 to 2012, Chair of the Board of Directors of Taguspark SA from 2010 to 2014, and Chair of 'Cluster - Consortium Linking Science and Technology Universities for Education and Research' from 2010 to 2012.
He was also a researcher at the Biomechanics Group of the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência from 1979 to 1981, a researcher at the Centre for Electrotechnics of the Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade de Lisboa from 1982 to 1994, and a researcher at the Telecommunications Institute from 1994 to 2024.
In addition, he was also a member of various evaluation panels for scientific research projects in the field of Electronic Instrumentation, which were candidates for funding from various European Union framework programmes, as well as from government agencies in Portugal, the Czech Republic, Italy and Poland.
From 1993 to 2022, hetaught Electronics subjects for the Navy School's degree in Weapons and Electronics.
He has a PhD (1992) and a Masters (1985) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Universidade do Porto (1978).
He is the lead author of more than 200 scientific publications .
