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Maria da Graça CARVALHO

She is Principal Adviser to the Bureau of European Policy Advisers, a Department of the European Commission reporting directly to the President. In this bureau she is a policy analyst in the areas of Science, Higher Education, Innovation, Information Society, Energy, Transport, Environment, Space and Security Research Policy and Sustainable Development.

She is a Full Professor at the Mechanical Engineering Department of IST-Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon) since June 1992. In 1983 she obtained her Ph.D. at the Imperial College in London. She has participated in and coordinated a large number of international R & D Projects. She is author of 97 articles in scientific international journals and she has written more than 400 articles for books, international conferences and seminars.

Her main research field is Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development. She was Minister of Science and Higher Education of the XV Constitutional Government of Portugal and Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education of the XVI Constitutional Government, Director-General of GRICES-Office for International Relations in Science and Higher Education and Deputy President of the Portuguese Association of Engineers. She was a member of the Board of Directors President of the Scientific Board of Instituto Superior Técnico (Technical University of Lisbon). She is a member of 22 national and international scientific associations and fellow of AIAA-American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and of AAAS-American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was decorated by the President of Portugal with the designation “Great Official of the Order of Public Instruction” within the scope of International Women Day Programme (8 March 2002) and by the Chancellery of the International Order of Merit of the Discoverer of Brazil with the high honour of the Great Cross (26 April 2005).