OPENING SESSION:
Maria Fernanda Rollo
Secretary of State of Science, Technology and Higher Education
XXI Government - Portuguese Republic
Maria Fernanda Rollo has a PhD and an Aggregation in Contemporary History by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences from Universidade Nova de Lisboa (NOVA FCSH). She was a researcher and President of the Institute of Contemporary History of NOVA FCSH (until November 2015) and was coordinator of the Pedro Hispano Program - Doctoral Studies in Social and Human Sciences of the same faculty. She was a Member of the Advisory Board of the Gulbenkian Program of Portuguese Language and Culture of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She coordinated research projects and has several texts published in the fields of history of Portugal in the twentieth century, history of economics and society in contemporary Portugal and history of innovation and organization of science in Portugal.