05-07-2019
On July 8th, two FCT NOVA Professors will be awarded the Medal of Scientific Merit at Ciência 2019- National Science and Technology Summit.
The Medal of Scientific Merit is intended to reward national or foreign individuals who, due to the high professional qualities and the fulfillment of their duties, have distinguished themselves by a valuable and exceptional contribution to the development of science or scientific culture in Portugal.
Manuel Nunes da Ponte, Full Professor at the Department of Chemistry at FCT NOVA, has been at NOVA University since 1979 and is one of the scientists to be honored. He held several positions in academic administration, having presided over the Chemistry Department of FCT NOVA (1994-97) and ITQB of NOVA (1992-2002). He was a member of the IBET Board from 1993 to 2006. Until 2018, he was one of the directors of the research unit REQUIMTE , Center of Excellence for Sustainable Chemistry. He was a Portuguese representative in the COST-Química program and in 2008-2009 he was the President of the Group of Representatives of the European Initiative EUREKA. He received the Gulbenkian Prize for Science (1992) and the Ferreira da Silva Medal of the Portuguese Society of Chemistry (1995).
Luís Moniz Pereira, FCT NOVA (emeritus) Full Professor of the Department of Informatics and researcher of NOVA LINCS, will also receive the same honor this Monday. Professor at the NOVA University in Lisbon since 1978, was the founding president of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (1993-2008) and one of the pioneering and prominent researchers in this area in the country. He was a member of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Council of IMDEA-Software, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies in 2006. In 2001, he was elected ECCAI Fellow by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence. He received the Logic-Deductive Sciences Award from the Gulbenkian Foundation in 1984, the Prémio da Boa Esperança, the highest Portuguese government science award in 1994 and the Prémio Estímulo à Excelência in 2005. In 2006 he was Doctor Honoris Causa by the Technische Universität Dresden
The Science Merit Awards ceremony will take place at the opening of the Science and Techology Summit 2019, starting at 9:00 am, at the Lisbon Congress Center.
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