Election Process 2022/25

The Scientific Coordination of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies would like to thank the CEIS20 scientific community for the renewed vote of confidence it has received in the elections held on 15 November. The Coordination team has enthusiastically accepted this commitment, with an expanded team that includes some new members, and is seeking to balance disciplinary representation and diversity of scientific backgrounds to meet the increased demands of new governance. We see this new cycle as an opportunity to consolidate and accelerate some of the changes initiated in recent years, to invest even more in the excellence of our research and to commit ourselves to action in three areas that are fundamental to CEIS20: its research culture, its interdisciplinary dynamism and its international projection.
We would also like to take this opportunity to introduce to the CEIS20 community the new members of the Scientific Coordination Team, Dina Sebastião, Carolina Coelho and João C. Teixeira.

José Oliveira Martins, Scientific Coordinator of CEIS20

José Oliveira Martins, Scientific Coordinator

Luís Trindade, Deputy Coordinator

Dina Sebastião, Member

Clara Serrano, Member

Carolina Coelho, Member

João C. Teixeira, Member

Dina Sebastião is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of Coimbra, and a member of CEIS20 – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, of UC. She holds a PhD in European Studies from the same university and her research interests focus on EU policies and politics, in particular the study of political parties, the Europeanisation of Portugal and Spain, governance and democracy in the EU, from the perspective of democracy. She has published book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is the recipient of the 2017 Jacques Delors Prize – Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, for the best study on EU issues.

Carolina Coelho holds a degree in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Coimbra (DARQ-UC), where she defended her thesis “Life within architecture from design process to space use. Adaptability in school buildings today – A methodological approach”, which was awarded the “The Glen Earthman Outstanding Dissertation Award”. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor at DARQ-UC, and teaches the Theory, History and Research Seminar in Architecture course units. She is a full researcher of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra, and a member of its current Scientific Coordination team. Her research interests focus on the experience of space and the processes of co-creation in active educational environments, developed in the Erasmus+ “Collaborative Redesign with Schools”, project, in which she coordinates the Portuguese interdisciplinary team.

João C. Teixeira is a biologist who studies the genetic evolution of the human species. He studied at the University of Porto, and completed his PhD in Evolutionary Genetics in 2016 at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany, under the supervision of Svante Pääbo and Aida Andrés. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, he moved to the Australian Centre for Ancient DNA in Australia in 2018. He is currently Principal Investigator at the Australian National University and Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra. He is the author of several publications in prestigious international scientific journals. His work combines population genetics and ancient DNA to reconstruct the demographic and adaptive history of our species.