The Governing Bodies of the IHC were elected on 14 September 2026.
The IHC Board of Directors is composed of seven members:
President: Rui Lopes
Vice-Presidents: Aurora Almada e Santos and Giulia Strippoli
Members: Maria de Lurdes Rosa, Sara Albuquerque, and Carmina Yu Untalan
IHC Coordinator at the University of Évora: Maria de Fátima Nunes
The General Assembly has a Board of three members:
President: Pedro Aires Oliveira
Vice-president: Paulo Jorge Fernandes
Secretary: Joana Paulino
The Supervisory Board has three members:
President: Bárbara Direito
Members: Ricardo Noronha and Marta Macedo
The IHC has a multidisciplinary scientific management team of five:
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Andreyna Caires |
| Financial management | |
| ✉️ financeira.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt // 📞 +351 217 908 390 | |
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Diana Barbosa |
| Science communication officer and press officer | |
| ✉️ comunicacao.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt // 📞 +351 217 908 390 | |
| She has a Biology degree from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. Has been engaged in science communication since 2010. She worked in exhibitions, as a translator, trainer and producer of science dissemination activities and the promotion of scientific culture. Since 2016, she is responsible for the management of science communication at the IHC. | |
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João Diogo |
| Gestão editorial | |
| ✉️ imprensa.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt // 📞 +351 217 908 390 | |
| Investigador Colaborador no Centro de Estudos Clássicos e Humanísticos. Tem-se dedicado ao estudo da história da filosofia e da ética e é membro do Laboratório de Racionalidade e Ética Aplicada, onde tem realizado workshops para estudantes de doutoramento sobre ética na investigação. Entre outras publicações, coordenou o livro Eutanásia (Editora d’Ideias, 2023). Trabalhou muito anos na área de edições sempre com pendor académico. | |
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Rita Sampaio da Nóvoa |
| Assistant of the Board; research team management | |
| ✉️ ihc@fcsh.unl.pt // 📞 +351 217 908 390 | |
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Ana Teresa Bento |
| IHC’s assistant at the University of Évora | |
| ✉️ cehfc@uevora.pt // 📞 +351 266 740 800 | |
The External Advisory Board carries out monitoring and advisory functions on the research activities developed in the framework of the IHC.
It is composed of six academics:
- Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago)
- Ewa Domanska (Adam Mickiewicz University)
- Matt Cook (University of Oxford)
- Melanie Torrent (University of London)
- Michelle Caswell (UCLA)
- Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela).
As provided for in Articles 10 and 33 of the IHC Regulations, the IHC has a Research Ombudsman, who is responsible for “arbitrating any unresolved dispute within the scope of the remit of the IHC’s Board of Directors, General Assembly, Supervisory Board or Scientific Council”, as well as “issuing a non-binding opinion on the matters under consideration”.
Team:
Luís Alberto Alves, Catarina Soares, and Renata Araújo
Contact: provedoraihc@fcsh.unl.pt
