New Department Chairs take office at NOVA FCT

Photo: João Lima/NOVA FCT

The Chairs of NOVA FCT's 13 departments took office on 30 September at a ceremony held in the Main Auditorium of the Caparica Campus. They will serve for the 2026–2030 term.

"Today we are swearing in the remaining part of the executive team," said José Júlio Alferes, Dean of NOVA FCT, as he opened the ceremony. In his address, he thanked the eight outgoing Chairs for their work: "It was a pleasure. We were a true team." To the new Chairs, he wished "every success and a good term over the next four years".

The ceremony was attended by members of the Dean's Office, faculty, researchers, staff and guests.

The following took office:

• Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering:  Pedro Manuel da Hora Santos Coelho
• Department of Materials Science: Hugo Manuel Brito Águas
• Department of Conservation and Restoration: Inês Alexandra Ramalho Coutinho
• Department of Applied Social Sciences: Paula Cristina Gonçalves Dias Urze
• Department of Earth Sciences:  José Carlos Ribeiro Kullberg
• Department of Life Sciences: Luís Jaime Gomes Ferreira da Silva Mota
• Department of Civil Engineering: Armando Manuel Sequeira Nunes Antão
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: José Manuel Matos Ribeiro da Fonseca
• Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering: Telmo Jorge Gomes dos Santos
• Department of Physics:  Jorge Alexandre Monteiro de Carvalho Silva
• Department of Computer Science:  Nuno Manuel Ribeiro Preguiça
• Department of Mathematics: Ana Cristina Malheiro Casimiro
• Department of Chemistry:  Ana Isabel Nobre Martins Aguiar de Oliveira Ricardo

Departments are NOVA FCT's teaching and research units, and their Chairs play a central role in carrying out the School's strategy in the coming years. With this ceremony, the team that will lead NOVA FCT through 2030 is now complete.

More photos of the ceremony here. (João Lima/NOVA FCT)