Research Centers

FCT/UNL hosts 16 research centres acknowledged by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (of which 3 are rated “excellent” and 6 ”very good”), as well as 2 Poles of research centres (both rated “very good”).

General Coordinator of the Research Centres:
Prof. Elvira Fortunato

Phone number: +351 212 948 562
Internal phone number: 11601/02
Fax number: +351 212 948 558
E-mail: sec-cnmt@fct.unl.pt

• CEFITEC - Centre of Physics and Technological Research
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Paulo Limão Vieira

• CENIMAT/I3N - Materials Research Centre (integrates the Associate Laboratory I3N - Institute of Nanostructures, Nanomodelling and Nanofabrication)
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutora Elvira Fortunato

• CENSE - Centre for Environmental and Sustainability Research
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutora Paula Antunes

• CENTRIA - Centre for Artificial Intelligence   
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Pedro Barahona

• CICEGE  - Research Centre on Science and Engineering Geology
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Rogério Rocha

• CITI - Research Centre for Informatics and Information Technologies
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Luís Caires
      
• CHFCT-FCT -  Centre for the History of Science and Technology – FCT – Pole of Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutora Maria Paula Diogo    
      
• CMA - Centre of Mathematic and Applications       
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Maria Luísa Mascarenhas
      
• CQFB/REQUIMTE - Centre of Chemistry and Biotechnology (integrates the Associate Laboratory for Green Chemistry - Clean Technologies and Processes REQUIMTE)
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutora Susana Barreiros
      
• CREM - Centre for Microbiological Resources             
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutora Ilda Sanches
      
• CTS - Centre of Technology and Systems                                                
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Adolfo Steiger Garção
      
• IET - IET Research Centre on Enterprise and Innovation
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor António Brandão Moniz
      
• UBIA - Unit of Environmental Biotechnology       
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutora Benilde Mendes 
• UIED - Investigation Research Unit of Education and Development
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor José Manuel Matos
      
• UNIC - Research Centre in Structures and Construction   
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Manuel Gonçalves da Silva
      
• UNIDEMI  - R&D Unit in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor Virgílio Cruz Machado
      
• VICARTE - Research Unit Glass and Ceramic for the Arts 
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor António Pires de Matos
     
  
• CFA-FCT - Centre for Atomic Physics – FCT - Pole of Centro de Física Atómica
  Coordinator: Prof. Doutor José Paulo Santos