António Manuel Simões Lopes Paiva de Carvalho (9A1B-90DF-3C15)

Curriculum Vitae

António Manuel Simões Lopes Paiva de Carvalho

António Carvalho works as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (FEUC). Until January 2023 he was Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), coordinating the research project "Plastic Bipolitics: addressing the micropolitics of neoliberal environmentalism" funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. Between 2018-2022 he was the Principal Investigator of TROPO: Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal - Social Movements, Public Policies and Emerging Technologies. He is co-director of the Doctoral Programme in Governance, Knowledge, and Innovation (between CES and FEUC), co-director of the Master's Degree in Social Dynamics, Natural and Technological Risks (between FEUC, the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra) and is the current director of the Observatory of Risk (OSIRIS). He belongs to the editorial board of Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais. Between 2022-2024 he was a member of CES Ethics Committee. His current research interests include the Anthropocene, more-than-human agency, public engagement with science and technology and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). His work has been published in journals such as Public Understanding of Science, Energy Research & Social Science, Minerva, Social Movement Studies and The Sociological Review. In 2024 he published the book "Antropoceno(s): crise climática, ontologia e o social" (Anthropocene(s): climate crisis, ontology and the social", edited by University of Coimbra Press.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: António Manuel Simões Lopes Paiva de Carvalho

Citation names

Carvalho, António

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9A1B-90DF-3C15
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6149-8883
Google Scholar ID: vUJZIboAAAAJ
Researcher Id: JZC-7928-2024
Scopus Author Id: 56660715200

Email addresses

amcarvalho@ces.uc.pt (Professional)
a.carvalho@fe.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Centro de Estudos Sociais. Praça Dom Dinis, 3000-104, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, Av. Dr. Dias da Silva 165, 3004-512, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/antonio-carvalho (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Sociology
Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
German	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)
Italian	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2009/10/01 - 2014/03/17 Concluded	Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Exeter, United Kingdom "Performing Meditation: Vipassana and Zen as Technologies of the Self" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	N/a
2007/01/01 - 2009/07/23 Concluded	MA in Sociology (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal "Performances, Poderes e Sujeitos no debate sobre Nanotecnologias (Performances, Power and Subjectivity – Debating Nanotechnologies)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Very Good
2001/09/01 - 2006/07/18 Concluded	License Degree in Philosophy (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal "n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Good

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/09 - 2023/01	Auxiliary Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2018/08/01 - 2021/08	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2017/07/01 - 2018/06/30	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal

2015/02/01 - 2015/08/31	Postdoc (Research)	University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom

2006/09/01 - 2009/09/30	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/02 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

2021/09 - 2022/08	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

2016/10/01 - 2017/02/28	Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal

2015/09/01 - 2016/09/30	Lecturer (University Teacher)	Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra, Portugal

2012/01/01 - 2014/04/30	Assistant (University Teacher)	University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2024/09 - Current	Director of the Observatory of Risk (OSIRIS)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2024/07 - Current	Co-Director of the Doctoral Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal

2024/07 - Current	Co-Director of the Master in Social Dynamics, Natural and Technological Risks	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2019/12 - Current	Permanent Researcher of the Centre for Social Studies	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2022 - 2024/08	Vice-Director of the Observatory of Risk (OSIRIS) of the Centre for Social Studies	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2022 - 2024/07	Member of CES Ethics Committee	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

2021 - 2023	Co-coordinator of the Annual Conferences Cycle "Young Social Scientists"	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/10 - Current	Greenpaths - European Knowledge Hub On Just Transition Pathways 101112305 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2022/01 - Current	PSYGLOCAL - Psychic Suffering and Human Rights: Mental Health Epistemologies, Public Policies, and Advocacy in Psychiatry (Lisbon, Portugal and Salvador, Brazil, 1950s - 2020s) PTDC/FER-HFC/3810/2021 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Ongoing
2018/07/15 - 2022/07/14	TROPO - Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal: social movements, public policies and emerging technologies POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028362 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2018/03/01 - 2020/04/01	UDI-Africa - University Development and Innovation 586047-EPP-1-2017-1-PT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP Other Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2017/11/01 - 2019/07/01	HoNESt (History of Nuclear Energy and Society) 662268 Other Universidad de Navarra Facultad de Económicas, Spain	European Commission Ongoing
2017/07/01 - 2018/06/30	Research Fairness Initiative UID/Multi/04413/2013 Post-doc Fellow Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2015/02 - 2015/08	New Ontologies SL-04704 Researcher University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom	Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Concluded
2007/12/01 - 2009/09/30	DEEPEN - Deepening Ethical Engagement and Participation in Emerging Nanotechnologies 36719 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Concluded
2007/01 - 2007/11	Science in Parliament: a study of the boundary between science and politics POCI/ESC/59332/2004 Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2006/09 - 2006/12	Enhancing Science Policy and Management in South East Europe (SEE) - follow up Enhancing Science Policy and Management in South East Europe (SEE) - follow up Researcher Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/09 - 2023/02	Plastic Biopolitics: addressing the micropolitics of neoliberal environmentalism. 2021.01532.CEECIND/CP1698/CT0007 Principal investigator Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2010/03/01 - 2013/08/31	Portugal Nuclear: Física, Tecnologia, Medicina e Ambiente (1910-2010) HC/0063/2009 Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2005/08/16 - 2008/09/30	A Ciência no Parlamento: um estudo da fronteira entre ciência e política POCI/ESC/59332/2004	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2018 - 2022/10	Reacción en Cadena: La Historia de Los Negocios Atómicos en la Península Ibérica HAR2017-86086-R (AEI/FEDER, UE) Researcher Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain	European Regional Development Fund Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Carvalho, António. Antropoceno(s): crise climática, ontologia e o social. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra. 2024. Published • 10.14195/978-989-26-2621-5
Book chapter	Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana; Ferreira, Vera. "Imaginários sociotécnicos de transição energética: o caso do Roteiro para a Neutralidade Carbónica 2050". In Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal: Evolução e temas emergentes, 239-267. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2024. Published Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana. ""É só um penso rápido!": Envolvimento Público com Geoengenharia e a Política da Crise Climática". In Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal: Evolução e temas emergentes, 269-298. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2024. Published Riquito, Mariana; Matos, Ana Raquel; Carvalho, António; Ferreira, Vera. "Discursos políticos sobre alterações climáticas em Portugal: análise dos debates parlamentares entre a VI e a XIII Legislaturas (1991 – 2019)". In Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal: Evolução e temas emergentes, 299-329. Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2024. Published Melo, Carme; Carvalho, António; Rubio, Mar. "La Conflictividad Transfonteriza. La disputa por las plantas de celulosa entre Uruguay y Argentina y la Controversia Nuclear entre España y Portugal". In Conflictividad Ambiental y Territorial, edited by Carme Melo et al. Spain: Tirant lo Blanch, 2021. In press Tiago Santos Pereira; Paulo Fonseca; Carvalho, António. "Cravos Atômicos? Uma história da energia nuclear em Portugal". In tramas epistêmicas e ambientais - Contribuições dos Estudos em Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade, edited by Paulo Fonseca; Fabrício Neves, 125-158. Brasília, Brazil: Editora 7 letras, 2020. Published Carvalho, António. "Assembling Mindfulness: Technologies of the Self, Neurons and Neoliberal Subjectivities". In Sociotechnical Environments, edited by Crabo, Stefano; Giardullo, Paolo; Miele, Francesco, 293-308. Milan, Italy: STS Italia, 2017. Published Santos Pereira, Tiago; Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado. "Parlamento e Conhecimento Científico: Dupla delegação?". In A Qualidade da Democracia em Debate - Deliberação, Representação e Participação políticas em Portugal e Espanha, 65-86. Lisbon, Portugal: Mundos Sociais, 2010. Published
Book review	Carvalho, António. "Recensão a "Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, edited by Saurabh Dube, Sanjay Seth and Ajay Skaria"". Review of Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene 10, (2021): 279-285. http://www.praticasdahistoria.pt/pt/numeros/praticas-da-historia-no-11-2020/recensao-a-dipesh-chakrabarty-and-the-global-south-subaltern-studies-postcolonial-perspectives-and-the-anthropocene-ed-por-saurabh-dube-sanjay-seth-e-ajay-skaria/. Published
Conference paper	Carvalho, António; Ferreira, Vera; Matos, Ana Raquel. Corresponding author: Carvalho, António. "Climate change, risk governance and grassroots movements: The case of the Transition Movement in Portugal". 2019. Published Carvalho, António. "A emergência da mindfulness: neurónios, capitalismo e o sujeito neoliberal (The emergence of mindfulness: neurons, capitalism and the neoliberal self)". Paper presented in X Congresso Português de Sociologia, 2018. Published Carvalho, António. "Desconstruindo o Sujeito Moderno: Meditação e a Ontologia Crítica da Experiência (Disassembling the Modern Self: Meditation and the Critical Ontology of Experience).". Paper presented in 8th Portuguese Congress of Sociology, Évora, 2014. Published Carvalho, António. "Laboratórios do sujeito: práticas de meditação como agenciamentos heterogéneos (Laboratories of the self: meditative practices as heterogeneous assemblages)". Paper presented in 7th Portuguese Congress of Sociology, Porto, 2012. Published Nunes, João Arriscado; Carvalho, António; Filipe, Ângela Marques; Matias, Marisa. "Realidade, ficção e participação: o caso das nanotecnologias" (Reality, Fiction and Participation: the case of nanotechnologies)". Paper presented in 10th Portuguese-Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences, Braga, 2009. Published Santos Pereira, Tiago; Carvalho, António; Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Nunes, João Arriscado. "Ciência, Tecnologia e Risco: O caso do Parlamento Português" (Science, Technology and Risk: the case of the Portuguese Parliament)". Paper presented in 10th Portuguese-Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences, 2009. Published Carvalho, António; Filipe, Ângela Marques; Matias, Marisa; Nunes, João Arriscado. "O debate público sobre as ciências e as Tecnologias emergentes: o caso da nanotecnologia» (“The Public Debate on Emerging Sciences and Technologies: The case of nanotechnology)". Paper presented in Sixth Portuguese Congress of Sociology: Social Worlds, Knowledge and Practices, 2008. Published Santos Pereira, Tiago; Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado. "Parlamento, Conhecimento Científico e Deliberação: dois estudos de caso no Parlamento Português, (Parliament, Scientific Knowledge and Deliberation: two case studies in the Portuguese Parliament)". Paper presented in VII Esocite – Latin- American Conference of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies, 2008. Published Nunes, João Arriscado; Carvalho, António; Filipe, Ângela Marques; Matias, Marisa. "Encenar, desenhar e debater futuros: os desafios das ciências e tecnologias emergentes (Staging, Designing and Debating futures : the challenges of emerging sciences and technologies)". Paper presented in VII Esocite – Latin-American Conference of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies, Rio de Janeiro, 2008. Published
Dictionary entry	Carvalho, António. "Antropoceno". In Palavras para lá da pandemia: cem lados de uma crise. Centro de Estudos Sociais, 2020. https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/palavras-pandemia/?lang=1&id=30226. Published Carvalho, António. "Distopia (Dystopia)". In Alice Dictionary. Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019. http://alice.ces.uc.pt/dictionary/?id=23838&pag=23918&id_lingua=1&entry=24265. Published Carvalho, António. "Objetividade/Neutralidade (Objectivity/Neutrality)". In Alice Dictionary. Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019. http://alice.ces.uc.pt/dictionary/?id=23838&pag=23918&id_lingua=1&entry=24441. Published
Journal article	Carvalho, António. "Tecnologías del sujeto, política y ontología. El caso de las prácticas meditativas". Andamios 21 56 (2025): 249-273. Open access • Published Brás, Oriana Rainho; Ferreira, Vera; Carvalho, António. "People of the sun: Local resistance and solar energy (in)justice in southern Portugal". Energy Research & Social Science 113 (2024): 103529. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2024.103529. Published • 10.1016/j.erss.2024.103529 Santos, Ana Cordeiro; Carvalho, António; Frade, Catarina; Fontes, Fernando; Caldeira, Isabel; Mendes, José Manuel; Alarcão, Madalena; et al. "Nas margens do 25 de Abril: os futuros do passado. Uma introdução". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 133 (2024): 5-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/11pr0. 10.4000/11pr0 Canelas, Joana; Carvalho, António. "The dark side of the energy transition: Extractivist violence, energy (in)justice and lithium mining in Portugal". Energy Research & Social Science 100 (2023): 103096. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.103096. Published • 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103096 Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana. "Para além do Antropoceno: ontologias não-modernas e os antípodas da Razão (Beyond the Anthropocene: non-modern ontologies and the antipodes of Reason)". e-cadernos CES (2023): Published Carvalho, António; Grácio, Rita. "The dark side of mindfulness: workplace socialization, neoliberalism and the self". Communication and Language at Work 8 2 (2022): 63-77. Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.7146/claw.v8i2.135105 Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana; Ferreira, Vera. "Sociotechnical imaginaries of energy transition: The case of the Portuguese Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality 2050". Energy Reports 8 (2022): 2413-2423. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.egyr.2022.01.138. 10.1016/j.egyr.2022.01.138 Carvalho, António; Ferreira, Vera. "Climate crisis, neoliberal environmentalism and the self: the case of ‘inner transition’". Social Movement Studies (2022): 1-18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2022.2070740. 10.1080/14742837.2022.2070740 Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana. "“It’s just a Band-Aid!”: Public Engagement with Geoengineering and the Politics of the Climate Crisis". Public Understanding of Science (2022): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09636625221095353. Published Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana. "Listening-with the subaltern: Anthropocene, Pluriverse and more-than-human agency". Nordia geographical publications (NGP) (2022): https://nordia.journal.fi/article/view/107404. Published Santos, Ana Cordeiro; Carvalho, António; Frade, Catarina; Fontes, Fernando; Caldeira, Isabel; Mendes, José Manuel; Alarcão, Madalena; et al. "COVID-19: novas sociabilidades, configurações sociopolíticas, dilemas e respostas. Uma introdução". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 128 (2022): 5-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rccs.13399. 10.4000/rccs.13399 Valério, Carolina; Carvalho, António; Craveiro, Isabel. "Capacitação e Parcerias Norte/Sul em Saúde: o exemplo de implementação do Programa de Doutoramento em Ciências Biomédicas em Angola". Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical 20 1 (2021): 9-19. Open access • Published Carvalho, António. "Rethinking the politics of meditation: practice, affect and ontology". The Sociological Review (2021): Published • 10.1177/00380261211029457 Ferreira, Vera; Carvalho, António. "Narratives of socioecological transition: the case of the Transition Network in Portugal". Nature & Culture 16 2 (2021): 42-66. Published • 10.3167/nc.2020.160203 Carvalho, António; Ferreira, Vera; Matos, Ana Raquel. "Ontologias do Antropoceno: crise climática, respostas sociopolíticas e tecnologias emergentes". Forum Sociológico 38 (2021): https://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/9693. Published Craveiro, Isabel; Ferrinho, Paulo; Carvalho, António. "“Get us partnerships!” - A qualitative study of Angolan and Mozambican health academics’ experiences with North/South partnerships". Globalization and Health 16 0 (2020): https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12992-020-00562-7. Published • 10.1186/s12992-020-00562-7 Carvalho, António. "The Anthropocene, COVID-19 and ontology: some reflections following the EASST/4S 2020 online conference". EASST Review 29 2 (2020): https://easst.net/article/the-anthropocene-covid-19-and-ontology-some-reflections-following-the-easst-4s-2020-online-conference/. Published Quevedo, Josemari; Carvalho, António; Fonseca, Paulo F. C.; Nunes, João Arriscado. "Ciência, Tecnologias Emergentes e Sociedade: o caso dos debates sobre nanotecnologias em Portugal (Science, Emerging Technologies and Society: the case of the debates on nanotechnologies in Portugal)". Forum Sociológico 35 II (2019): 73-81. https://journals.openedition.org/sociologico/8891. Published Ana Sottomayor; Joana Vidal Castro; Carvalho, António; Carlos Brito; Fernando P. Cupertino de Barros; Isabel Craveiro. "Parcerias em saúde global e saúde das populações – O que esperar e como melhorar?". Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical 18 (2019): 58-65. https://anaisihmt.com/index.php/ihmt/article/view/339. Open access • Published Carvalho, António; Ana Raquel Matos; Vera Ferreira. "TROPO: Ontologias do Antropoceno em Portugal". Cescontexto 25 (2019): 69-81. https://www.ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/cescontexto/index.php?id=26353. Published Carvalho, António; Ferrinho, Paulo; Craveiro, Isabel. "Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola". Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 24 5 (2019): 1617-1626. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232018245.04442019. Open access • Published • 10.1590/1413-81232018245.04442019 Carvalho, António; Ferrinho, Paulo; Craveiro, Isabel. "Capacitação e Parcerias Norte/Sul na área da saúde – o caso do projeto UDI-A (Capacity building and North/South partnerships in health – the case of the UDI-A project)". Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical 17 1 (2019): 35-43. Open access • Published Carvalho, António; IJsselmuiden, Carel; Kaiser, Kirsty; Hartz, Zulmira; Ferrinho, Paulo. "Towards equity in global health partnerships: adoption of the Research Fairness Initiative (RFI) by Portuguese-speaking countries". BMJ Global Health 3 5 (2018): e000978. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000978. Published • 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000978 Nunes, João Arriscado; Costa, Daniel Neves da; Carvalho, António; Matos, Ana Raquel. "A emergência do sujeito participativo: interseções entre ciência, política e ontologia (The emergence of the participatory subject – science, politics and ontology)". Sociologias 20 48 (2018): 162-187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/15174522-020004811. Published • 10.1590/15174522-020004811 Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado. "Assembling Upstream Engagement: the Case of the Portuguese Deliberative Forum on Nanotechnologies". NanoEthics 12 2 (2018): 99-113. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-018-0314-0. Published • 10.1007/s11569-018-0314-0 Santos Pereira, Tiago; Fonseca, Paulo F. C.; Carvalho, António. "Carnation Atoms? A History of Nuclear Energy in Portugal". Minerva 56 4 (2018): 505-528. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11024-018-9354-4. Published • 10.1007/s11024-018-9354-4 Rubio-Varas, M.d. Mar; Carvalho, António; De la Torre, Joseba. "Siting (and mining) at the Border: Spain-Portugal Nuclear Transboundary Issues". Journal for the History of Environment and Society 3 (2018): 33-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.jhes.5.116794. Published • 10.1484/j.jhes.5.116794 Carvalho, António. "Ecologies of the self in practice – meditation, affect and ecosophy". Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 99 2 (2017): 207-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/04353684.2017.1306970. Published • 10.1080/04353684.2017.1306970 Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado; Hartz, Zulmira. "Saúde para o Desenvolvimento, Parcerias de Investigação e Equidade: uma revisão de literatura (Health for Development, Research Partnerships and Fairness: a literature review)". Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical 16 2 (2017): 93-104. https://anaisihmt.com/index.php/ihmt/article/view/62. Open access • Published Carvalho, António; Klipp, Kirsty; IJsselmuiden, Carel; Ferrinho, Paulo; Hartz, Zulmira. "A Implementação da Iniciativa para a Equidade na Investigação". Anais do Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical 16 2 (2017): 11-20. https://anaisihmt.com/index.php/ihmt/article/view/52. Open access • Published Santos Pereira, Tiago; Carvalho, António; Fonseca, Paulo F.C.. "Imaginaries of nuclear energy in the Portuguese parliament: Between promise, risk, and democracy". Public Understanding of Science 26 3 (2017): 289-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662516662738. Published • 10.1177/0963662516662738 Carvalho, António. "Para além das ontologias fracturantes: espaço, meditação e reencantamento (Beyond dualist ontologies: space, meditation and re-enchantment)". Baú 1 1 (2016): 22-31. Published Carvalho, António. "Subjectivity, ecology and meditation – Performing interconnectedness". Subjectivity 7 2 (2014): 131-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/sub.2014.3. Published • 10.1057/sub.2014.3 Carvalho, António. "Intervenção e envolvimento público em Ciência e Tecnologia: o caso das nanotecnologias (Intervention and public engagement in Science and Technology: the case of nanotechnologies)". Estudos de Sociologia 19 37 (2014): 431-449. https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/5923. Published Carvalho, António. "Tecnologias, subjectividade e o social: uma reflexão a partir de dois agenciamentos meditativos (Technologies, subjectivity and the social: a reflection on two meditative assemblages)". Sociologia-online 7 (2014): 33-56. https://revista.aps.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/N7_art-2_Antonio-Carvalho.pdf. Open access • Published Carvalho, António; Nunes, João Arriscado. "Technology, Methodology and Intervention: Performing Nanoethics in Portugal". NanoEthics 7 2 (2013): 149-160. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11569-013-0175-5. Published • 10.1007/s11569-013-0175-5 Carvalho, António. "Self, Performativity and Vipassana Meditation: Some Theoretical Considerations". e-cadernos CES 08 (2010): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/eces.445. Published • 10.4000/eces.445 Carvalho, António; Filipe, Ângela Marques. "Ciência, tecnologia e participação: narrativas e éticas leigas em torno das nanotecnologias emergentes (Science, Technology and Participation: narratives and lay ethics on emerging nanotechnologies)". e-cadernos CES 02 (2008): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/eces.1458. Published • 10.4000/eces.1458
Journal issue	Carvalho, António; Neves, Daniel; Soares, Manuel. "Edition of the prisma.soc 11, newsletter of the department of sociology of the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra". prisma.soc 11 (2024): Published • Coeditor Santos, Ana Cordeiro; Carvalho, António; Frade, Catarina; Fontes, Fernando; Caldeira, Isabel; Mendes, José Manuel; Alarcão, Madalena; et al. "Nas margens do 25 de Abril: os futuros do passado". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 133 (2024): https://doi.org/10.4000/11pr7. 10.4000/11pr7 Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana. "Para além do Antropoceno: crise climática, novas ontologias e alternativas à modernidade antropocêntrica". e-cadernos CES 38 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/eces.7531. Published • 10.4000/eces.7531 Santos, Ana Cordeiro; Carvalho, António; Frade, Catarina; Fontes, Fernando; Caldeira, Isabel; Mendes, José Manuel; Alarcão, Madalena; et al. "COVID-19: novas sociabilidades, configurações sociopolíticas, dilemas e respostas". Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais 128 (2022): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rccs.13398. 10.4000/rccs.13398 Riquito, Mariana; Carvalho, António. "Beyond Modernity: Alternative Incursions into the Anthropocene". CesContexto Debates 21 (2022): Published
Magazine article	Carvalho, António. "Dogmatismo tecnocientífico e governação em tempos de crise: uma reflexão sobre as alterações climáticas", Le Monde Diplomatique - Edição Portuguesa, 2023, https://pt.mondediplo.com/2023/03/dogmatismo-tecnocientifico-e-governacao-em-tempos-de-crise-uma-reflexao-sobre.html. Carvalho, António. "Collaboration with Notícias Magazine regarding a news article on emerging masculinities", Notícias Magazine - O laser está cada vez mais unissexo, 2019 Carvalho, António. "Carne, Consciência, Ontogénese I - O despertar (Flesh, Consciousness, Ontogenesis - The Awakening)", Entre o vivo, o não-vivo e o morto, 2009 Carvalho, António. "Hipóteses em Torno da Penitenciária (Hypothesis on the Coimbra Penitentiary)", MACA - Magazine de Arte de Coimbra & Afins, 2008 Carvalho, António. "Filosofia e Ecologia (Philosophy and Ecology)", Entre o vivo, o não-vivo e o morto, 2008 Carvalho, António. "Abulia e Grammé (Abulia and Grammé)", Entre o vivo, o não-vivo e o morto, 2008 Carvalho, António. "Publication of two poems", Reler, 2005
Newsletter article	Carvalho, António; Neves, Daniel; Soares, Manuel. "Editorial", prisma.soc, 2024 Carvalho, António. "As Ciências Sociais e a Crise Climática (Social Sciences and Climate Change)", Ces em Cena, 2020, https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/cesemcena/51/cesemcena51.pdf. Carvalho, António. "TROPO - Ontologias do Antropoceno em Portugal: movimentos sociais, políticas públicas e tecnologias emergentes", Ces em Cena, 2020, https://ces.uc.pt/publicacoes/cesemcena/51/cesemcena51.pdf.
Newspaper article	Carvalho, António. "O Certificado Digital Covid e o risco de um apartheid biopolítico", Público (P3), 2021, https://www.publico.pt/2021/07/02/p3/cronica/certificado-digital-covid-risco-apartheid-biopolitico-1968727. Carvalho, António. "O coronavírus e o Antropoceno", Público, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/05/20/p3/cronica/coronavirus-antropoceno-1916415. Carvalho, António. "Somos verdadeiramente livres? ("Are we truly free?")", Jornal o Trevim, 2019 Carvalho, António. "Política, media e identidades numa encruzilhada (Politics, media and identities at a crossroads)", Jornal o Trevim, 2019 Carvalho, António. "A condição feminina (The female condition)", Jornal o Trevim, 2019 Carvalho, António. "Os Desafios das Alterações Climáticas (The Challenges of Climate Change)", Jornal o Trevim, 2018
Online resource	Carvalho, António; Riquito, Mariana. Cinematic incursions into the Anthropocene: Roland Emmerich, dystopia and ontology. 2021. https://www.weathermatters.net/cinematic-incursions-into-the-anthropocene-roland-emmerich-dystopia-and-ontology. Carvalho, António; Irina Velicu. Pandemic Ontologies of Isolation. 2020. https://undisciplinedenvironments.org/2020/04/28/pandemic-ontologies-of-isolation/. Carvalho, António. Pandemia, apocalipse e o século XXI. 2020. https://ces.uc.pt/en/agenda-noticias/ces-com-vida-2020/8-abr-2020/pandemia-apocalipse-e-o-seculo-xxi.
Report	Carvalho, António; Hartz, Zulmira; Ferrinho, Paulo. 2018. Research Fairness Initiative Report, Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (IHMT/NOVA).. http://3dmfsx6ameqwfda31pu5rjxq.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/IHMT-RFI-Report.pdf. Davies, Sarah; Macnaghten, Phil; Kearnes, Matthew; Carvalho, António; Ferrari, Arianna; Filipe, Ângela Marques; Nordmann, Alfred; et al. 2009. Reconfiguring Responsability: Deepening Debate on Nanotechnology (Part 1). http://dro.dur.ac.uk/6399/1/6399.pdf?DDD14+dgg1mbk. Santos Pereira, Tiago; Moutinho, Ana Correia; Rodrigues, António Farinhas; Carvalho, António; Gonçalves, Maria Eduarda; Nunes, João Arriscado. 2008. A Ciência no parlamento? Instituições, Actores e Risco (Science in Parliament? Institutions, Actors and Risk).
Thesis / Dissertation	Carvalho, António. "Performing Meditation: Vipassana and Zen as Technologies of the Self". PhD, University of Exeter College of Social Sciences and International Studies, 2014. https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/14667/SimoesLopesPaivaDeCarvalhoA.pdf?sequence=1. Carvalho, António. "Performances, Poderes e Sujeitos no debate sobre Nanotecnologias (Performances, Power and Subjectivity – Debating Nanotechnologies)". Master, Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, 2009. https://estudogeral.uc.pt/bitstream/10316/11528/1/tese%20Ant%C3%B3nio%20Carvalho%20Performances%2C%20Poderes%20e%20Sujeitos%20no%20debate%20sobre%20Nanotecnologias.pdf.
Translation	Carvalho, António. Forces of reproduction. Socialist ecofeminism and the struggle for undoing the Anthropocene (authored by Stefania Barca). Coimbra, Portugal. 2021. Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/eces.5448 Carvalho, António. Guia de Implementação Institucional do RFI (Portuguese Translation of the Implementation Guide of the Research Fairness Initiative). Geneva, Switzerland: Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED). 2018. Published Carvalho, António. Sumário da Iniciativa para a Equidade na Investigação (Portuguese Translation of the Summary Guide of the Research Fairness Initiative). Geneva, Switzerland: Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED). 2018. Published Carvalho, António. Guia do Relatório da Iniciativa para a Equidade na Investigação (Portuguese Translation of the Reporting Guide of the Research Fairness Initiative). Geneva, Switzerland: Council on Health Research for Development (COHRED). 2018. Published

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Other output

Comment on the opinion piece "Mudanças no escuro" in A cor do tempo quando foge (authored by Boaventura de Sousa Santos). Coimbra, Almedina: 43-44.. Compilation of opinion pieces and journal columns published by Professor Santos between 2001-2011, including short comments by selected social researchers.. 2012. Carvalho, António.
Comment of the opinion piece "A Construção de um insulto" in A cor do tempo quando foge (authored by Boaventura de Sousa Santos). Coimbra, Almedina: 69-72.. Compilation of opinion pieces and journal columns published by Professor Santos between 2001-2011, including short comments by selected social researchers.. 2012. Carvalho, António.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/06	Keynote talk on Climate Change (title tbc)	First Conference Cycle of the Research Group "Anthropocene, Sustainability and Development" of the Portuguese Open University Universidade Aberta (Coruche, Portugal)
2025/05	Contemplação e antropoceno (Contemplation and the Anthropocene)	Colóquio "Vita Contemplativa: O Regresso da Contemplação" (Portugal)
2024/11	Energy (in)justices in the Capitalocene: unpacking the controversy of a large solar power plant in Alentejo (Southern Portugal	4th International Conference Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/05	Invited Speaker at “Conversas de Viajantes – ÓVNIS – Entre a ciência, a Espiritualidade e a Ficção”, Centro Cultural Penedo da Saudade, Coimbra	Centro Cultural Penedo da Saudade
2024/02/08	Crise Climática, dogmatismo tecnocientífico e controlo social	SocioTalks Núcleo de Estudantes de Sociologia da Associação Académica de Coimbra (Group of Sociology Students of the University of Coimbra) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/11	Affect, environmentalism and the ontological politics of meditation in the Anthropocene	3rd International Conference “Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons - Decolonizing the Solidarity Economy and Commons: Enacting the “Pluriverse” ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/11	Invited Speaker at “Academia Europa 2023” (organized by the Association of European Studies Students of the University of Coimbra) within a panel on “Ecological and Digital Transition: Futures Perspectives”, alongside Maria da Graça Carvalho (Eurodeputy within the European People’s Party)	Academia Europa 2023 Association of European Studies Students of the University of Coimbra (Montemor-o-velho, Portugal)
2023/08	Anthropocene, affect and the politics of meditation.	Royal Geographical Society annual conference Royal Geographical Society (London, United Kingdom)
2023/08	Participation in a roundtable with Manuel Prados, Alberto Lopez, José Manuel Mendes and researchers from the University of Seville within the art festival “A Dobradiça”	art festival “A Dobradiça” (Mação, Portugal)
2023/07	Antropoceno, Tecnologia e Distopias Climáticas: O caso da Geoengenharia (Anthropocene, Technology and Climate Dystopias: The case of Geoengineering)	II Summer Course of the research line “Literature, Humanism and Cosmopolitanism”, Centre for Global Studies of the Open University Centre for Global Studies of the Open University (Portugal)
2023/06	Energy justice on the pathway to carbon neutrality: a case study of a controversial solar power station in Southern Portugal	EASA Energy Anthropology Network workshop / Future Anthropologies Network’s workshop ISCTE (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/04	Climate Crisis, Technoscientific dogmatism and social control	Climate and Labor Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and Pulitzer Foundation (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/04	Ontologias do Antropoceno: crise climática, sustentabilidade e regimes de poder emergentes	XII Congresso Português de Sociologia. Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/03	Antropoceno, Capitaloceno e a Necropolítica da Crise Climática	Semana Azul, organizada pelo Núcleo de Estudantes de Antropologia da Associação Académica de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2023/03	(In)justiça energética na transição para a “neutralidade carbónica”: análise de um estudo de caso no Alentejo	in/justiças: II encontro de ecologia política CRIA Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia. (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/12	As múltiplas faces do Antropoceno: crise climática, respostas sociopolíticas e tecnologias emergentes (The Multiple Faces of the Anthropocene: climate crisis, sociopolitical responses and emerging technologies)	UrbanSus “Clima, saúde e políticas públicas - avanços e desafios” Centro de Síntese USP Cidades Globais do Instituto de Estudos Avançados da Universidade de São Paulo (São Paulo, Brazil)
2022/06	Participação pública com Geoengenharia e as complexidades ético-políticas do Antropoceno (Public Engagement with Geoengineering and the ethico-political complexities of the Anthropocene)	Grupo de Investigação no ICS, GI Shift (Ambiente, Território e Sociedade) Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/06	Discussant. Presentation by Arianna Porrone with the title “Re-storying/restoring the human/more-than-human relationship: ecofeminist and new materialist accounts”	ECOSOC-CES Seminars Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/02	“Investigação sociológica sobre alterações climáticas em Portugal: uma abordagem qualitativa” (Sociological research on climate change in Portugal: a qualitative analysis)	SocioTalks Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/11	The Dark Side of Mindfulness: capitalism, neoliberal selves and the workplace	The Dark Side of Organizational Socialization Aalborg University (Online)
2021/11	Imaginários sociotécnicos da transição energética em Portugal: o caso do Roteiro para a Neutralidade Carbónica 2050 (Sociotechnical Imaginaries of Energy Transition in Portugal: the case of the Roadmap for Carbon Neutrality 2050)	V Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal School of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2021/11	Crise Climática, Tecnologia e as Políticas do Antropoceno: O Caso da Geoengenharia (Climate Crisis, Technology and the Politics of the Anthropocene: The Case of Geoengineering)	V Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal School of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/11	Discursos Políticos sobre Alterações Climáticas: análise dos debates parlamentares em Portugal entre a VI e a XIII Legislaturas (1991 – 2019) (Political Discourse on Climate Change: analysis of the parliamentary debates in Portugal between the 6th and 13th legislatures (1991 – 2019)	V Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal School of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/10/01	Ontologias do Antropoceno em Portugal: crise climática, respostas sociopolíticas e tecnologias emergentes” (Ontologies of the Anthropocene in Portugal: climate crisis, sociopolitical responses and emerging technologies)	Conference Series of the Doctoral Programme in “Territory, Risk and Public Policies” Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Portugal)
2021/09	Pandemic Ontologies: Immunopolitics and Care?	Transformative Effects of Covid-19 on Globalisation & Law conference University of Amsterdam, Open University, the University of Maastricht and Tilburg University
2021/05/21	Zooming in on Geoengineering - uncertain planetary futures and the ontological politics of the Anthropocene	Nordic Science and Technology Studies Conference 2021 Copenhagen Business School (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2021/04/23	“É apenas um penso-rápido!”: Participação Pública com Geoengenharia e a(s) Política(s) da Crise Climática	Dia do NECES Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/04/23	Narrativas de Transição Socioecológica: O caso da Rede Transição em Portugal	Dia do NECES Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/03/30	Discussant, 'Climate Trauma and the Unbearable Commons' (presentation by Irina Velicu)	Seminar #2 - «DECONFINED TALKS II» -Climate Trauma and the Unbearable Commons Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/03	Explorando as ontologias do Antropoceno (Exploring the Ontologies of the Anthropocene)	XI Portuguese Congress of Sociology ISCTE-ICS -Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/03	'Unpacking the Anthropocene: Ontology, Multiplicity and STS' (Provisional Title), Plenary Talk at the Knowledge, Science and Technology Stream of the Portuguese Sociological Association	XI Portuguese Congress of Sociology ISCTE-ICS -Lisboa (Lisboa)
2021/02/09	Discussant, Political Ecology Reading Group (2020-2021), Presentation by Rita Serra with the title "Ser Comida"	Political Ecology Reading Group (2020-2021) Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2020/11/19	Subjectivities and the Care of the Self in the Anthropocene: the case of the Transition Movement in Portugal	Ongoing seminar of the Values group, Tema T (Technology and Social Change) Department Linköping University (Linköping , Denmark)
2020/08	Crafting an ontology for the Anthropocene	EASST/4S Joint Conference 2020 (Prague (online), Czech Republic)
2020/05/22	Discussant. Presentation by Irina Castro with the title “Transgenics and their contribution to understanding violence”. Political Ecology Reading Group series 2019/2020	Political Ecology Reading Group series 2019/2020 Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2020/03/02	Os desafios ontopolíticos do Antropoceno (The ontopolitical challenges of the Anthropocene)	International Seminar on Environment and Society - Current challenges and pathways to change Environment and Society Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/11	Os nutrientes do Antropoceno: alimentação, estética e ontologia (The nutrients of the Anthropocene: food, aesthetics and ontology)	Pensar a comida, pensar o mundo - Oficina II. Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/10	Antropoceno, Ontologia e Pluriverso (Anthropocene, Ontology and Pluriverse)	"As múltiplas faces do Antropoceno: política, agência e crise ontológica" (The multiple faces of the Anthropocene: politics, agency and ontological crisis” Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2019/09	Climate change, risk governance and grassroots movements: the case of the Transition Movement in Portugal (Poster)	Citizens' Commitment in Risk Governance: From Inaction to Co-Decision School of Economics, University of Coimbra
2019/09	Il sintomo-Antropocene (The Anthropocene Symptom)	XII National Conference of Environmental Sociologists in Italy University of Salerno (Salerno, Italy)
2019/09	Ontologias do Antropoceno: Movimentos sociais vs discurso político em Portugal (Ontologies of the Anthropocene: Social movements vs political discourse in Portugal)	IV Conferência Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal (IV Conference of Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal) Portuguese Sociological Association (Porto, Portugal)
2019/08	Siting (and mining) at the border: Spain-Portugal nuclear transboundary issues	“Boundaries in/of Environmental History” European Society for European History Biannual Conference, (Tallin, Estonia)
2019/07	TROPO - Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal: social movements, public policies and emerging technologies	Encontro Ciência '19 FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/07	Fair Research Partnerships - towards a more equitable future in global health	Encontro Ciência '19 FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Lisbon, United Kingdom)
2019/06/12	As políticas ontológicas do Antropoceno (The Ontological Politics of the Anthropocene)	EIBEA 2019-Encontro Iberoamericano de Estudos do Antropoceno ( Ibero-American Encounter of Anthropocene Studies) University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2019/06/12	Antropoceno e alterações climáticas no Parlamento: atores, imaginários e pós-política no discurso político português (1990- 2018) (Anthropocene and climate change in the Parliament: actors, imaginaries and post-politics in the Portuguese political discourse (1990-2018)	EIBEA 2019-Encontro Iberoamericano de Estudos do Antropoceno ( Ibero-American Encounter of Anthropocene Studies) University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2019/04/12	Parcerias, Capacitação e Equidade em Saúde Global: uma análise a partir de dois estudos de caso	5º Congresso Nacional de Medicina Tropical Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical (Lisbon, Portugal)
2019/03/21	TROPO: Ontologias do Antropoceno em Portugal: movimentos sociais, políticas públicas e tecnologias emergentes (TROPO: Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal: social movements, public policies and emerging technologies)	Dia do NECES Science, Economy and Society Research Group of the Centre for Social Studies (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/12/07	Uma sociologia do Antropoceno? Tecnologias Emergentes, Afeto e Heterogeneidade Ontológica (A sociology of the Anthropocene? Emerging Technologies, Affect and Ontological Heterogeneity)	Conference Series of the PhD Program in Sociology Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/11/10	Ciências, Tecnologias Emergentes e Sociedade: o caso dos debates sobre nanotecnologias em Portugal (Emerging Sciences and Technologies and Society: the case of the debates on nanotechnology in Portugal)	“Imagining the future. Knowledges, experiences, alternatives - International conference to honour Boaventura de Sousa Santos upon the 40th anniversary of the Centre for Social Studies Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/11/01	Capacitação para o desenvolvimento sustentável: o estudo de caso “UDI- A: University Development and Innovation AFRICA” – o exemplo da saúde (Capacity building for sustainable development: the case study “UDI-A: University Development and Innovation AFRICA” – the example of health)	1st International Congress of the UDI-África Project Agostinho Neto University (Luanda, Angola)
2018/10/19	Towards post-colonial capacity-building methodologies – some remarks on the experiences of health researchers from Mozambique and Angola	WCQR – World Conference on Qualitative Research Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/09/21	Towards fair research collaborations	Ninth EDCTP Forum 2018 European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (Lisbon, Portugal)
2018/07/12	A emergência da mindfulness: neurónios, capitalismo e o sujeito neoliberal (The emergence of mindfulness: neurons, capitalism and the neoliberal self)	10th Portuguese Congress of Sociology Portuguese Sociological ASsociation (Covilhã, Portugal)
2018/03/18	Towards fair research collaborations at IHMT-NOVA	CUGH Global Health Conference Consortium of Universities for Global Health (New York , United States)
2017/11/16	Chernobyl’s political consequences in Spain and Portugal	Chernobyl – Turning Point or Catalyst? Chernobyl’s Political Consequences Heinrich Böll Foundation (Berlin, Germany)
2017/11/12	Capitalist Neurons? Mindfulness, neoliberal affect and the human brain	Historical Materialism 2017 Annual London Conference Historical Materialism London (London, United Kingdom)
2017/09/26	Ecologias do sujeito: meditação, afeto e ecosofia (Ecologies of the self: meditation, affect and ecosophy)	Mindfulness ou Despertar da Consciência? A meditação e a contemplação numa encruzilhada (Mindfulness or the Awakening of Consciousness? Meditation and Contemplation at a Crossroads Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/09/08	Public engagement with nanotechnologies in Portugal	Roundtable on Nanotechnologies and Society: from Research to the Citizen Portuguese Sociological Association (Braga, Portugal)
2017/09/08	The Implementation of the Research Fairness Initiative (RFI) at the Global Health & Tropical Medicine (GHTM) - NOVA University of Lisbon	International Conference on Research for Development (ICRD 2017) (Bern, Switzerland)
2017/09/07	As Ontologias do Antropoceno: Alterações climáticas, política(s) e tecnologias emergentes (Ontologies of the Anthropocene: Climate change, politics and emerging technologies	3rd Conference the Future of Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal Portuguese Sociological Association (Braga, Portugal)
2017/06/09	Meditation… lost in translation? The case of mindfulness	Joint Meeting Red EsCTS and Portuguese STS Network Red EsCTS and Portuguese STS Network (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/03/21	Os dispositivos da mindfulness: tecnologias do sujeito, neurónios e subjetividades neoliberais (Devices of mindfulness: technologies of the self, neurons and neoliberal subjectivities)	VITA CONTEMPLATIVA 2017 - Práticas Contemplativas e Cultura Contemporânea (Contemplative Practices and Contemporary Culture) Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2016/11/26	Assembling Mindfulness: silence, emergence, neurons and biopolitics	6th STS Italia Conference University of Trento (Trento, Italy)
2016/11/05	The construction of concerned publics with nanotechnologies	Formation Course “Is Science Responsible?” Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2016/07/08	O Antropoceno e a humanização do ambiente (The Anthropocene and the “humanization” of the environment)	9th Portuguese Congress of Sociology Portuguese Sociological Association (Faro, Portugal)
2015/10/22	Em torno de uma ontologia crítica das práticas contemplativas (Towards a critical ontology of contemplative practices).	Vita Contemplativa 2015 – Práticas contemplativas e Cultura contemporânea (Contemplative Practices and Contemporary Culture) University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2014/12/09	Transformação social e subjetividade: o caso das práticas meditativas (Social Transformation and Subjectivity: the case of meditation)	Compaixão Ativa (Active Compassion) Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2014/11/02	Meditation, Ecology and Subjectivity: Performing Entangled Selves	International Symposium for Contemplative Studies (ISCS) MInd and Life Institute (Boston, United States)
2014/08/29	Subjectivity Ecology and Meditation: Performing Interbeing	Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society – Geographies of Co-production, session on 'Ecosophical Geographies Royal Geograhical Society (London, United Kingdom)
2014/04/16	Desconstruindo o Sujeito Moderno: Meditação e a Ontologia Crítica da Experiência (Disassembling the modern self: Meditation and the Critical Ontology of Experience)	8th Portuguese Congress of Sociology Portuguese Sociological Association (Évora, Portugal)
2014/03/08	Meditation in Everyday Life	Spiritual Exercises Conference, University of Bristol (Bristol, United Kingdom)
2013/11/05	Nuclear power in parliamentary debates in Portugal: Promise or risk?	STS Perspectives on Energy Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisbon, Portugal)
2013/06/18	Performing Meditation: An Exploration of Vipassana and Zen as ways of being	Mind and Life Summer Research Institute MInd and Life Institute (Garrison, NY, United States)
2012/10/20	Technologies of the self and nonmodern ontologies: the cases of meditation and cybernetics	Joint Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)
2012/06/08	Ciência, Tecnologia E Risco No Parlamento Português (Science, Technology and Risk in the Portuguese Parliament)	IX ESOCITE (Latin-American Encounters of Social Studies of Science and Technology) Red de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia, la Tecnología y la Innovación (ESOCITE) (Mexico City)
2012/04/13	Laboratories of the Soul: Meditation Retreats as Heterogeneous Assemblages.	British Sociological Association Annual Conference British Sociological Association (Leeds, United Kingdom)
2011/11/19	Tecnologias, subjectividade e o social: uma reflexão a partir de dois agenciamentos meditativos (Technologies, subjectivity and the social: a reflection on two meditative assemblages).	Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal (The future of Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology in Portugal) Portuguese Sociological Association (Lisbon, Portugal)
2011/07/08	Transforming the politics of experience: the case of Vipassana meditation	Transformations Conference University of Cardiff (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
2011/04/08	Exploring our Selves: a reflection on power, subjectivity and meditation(s).	British Sociological Association Annual Conference British Sociological Association (London, United Kingdom)
2010/11/30	Science, Technology and Risk in the Portuguese Parliament	Interactions between lay people, experts and decisionmakers Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisbon, Portugal)
2010/09/04	Deliberation, Performativity and Research Design in the Public debate of Nanotechnologies	Practicing Science and Technology, Performing the Social European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (Trento)
2010	Enacting the Deliberative Citizen: The case of the public debate on nanotechnologies,	Interactions between lay people, experts and policymakers Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/09/05	Embodied Narratives, Participation and Performance in Emergent Technologies: Debating Nanotechnology	9th Conference of the European Sociological Association European Sociological Association (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/05/30	A performação da democracia técnica: experiências comparadas na Europa e no Brasil (Performing the technical democracy: compared experiences in Europe and Brazil)	II Portuguese-Spanish Meeting of Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisbon, Portugal)
2009/05/28	Participação, Mediação e Performatividade na emergência de um sujeito “preocupado” com nanotecnologias (Participation, Mediation and Performativity in the emergence of a “concerned” subject with nanotechnologies)	II Event of the Science, Technology and Society Cycle of Seminars Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2009/02/07	Realidade, ficção e participação: o caso das nanotecnologias (Reality, fiction and participation: the case of nanotechnologies)	10th Portuguese-Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2009/02/07	Ciência, Tecnologia e Risco: O caso do Parlamento Português, (Science, Technology and Risk: The case of the Portuguese Parliament)	10th Portuguese-Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Sciences University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2008/09/08	Parliament and Scientific Knowledge	1st ISA Forum of Sociology International Sociological Association (Barcelona, Spain)
2008/08/23	Science, Technology and the Portuguese Parliament: the cases of Medically Assisted Reproduction and Nuclear Energy	4S/EASST 2008 - Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2008/08/23	Seduction, Concern and control: debating nanotechnologies	4S/EASST 2008 – Acting with Science, Technology and Medicine Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2008/07/12	The subject of Risk in the Portuguese Parliament	Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines University of Hertfordshire (Hereford, United Kingdom)
2008/06/28	O debate público sobre as ciências e as tecnologias emergentes: o caso da nanotecnologia, (The public debate on emerging sciences and technologies: the case of nanotechnology)	Sixth Portuguese Congress of Sociology: Social Worlds, Knowledge and Practices Portuguese Sociological Association (Lisbon, Portugal)
2008/06/27	O parlamento português e controvérsias técnicas: notas sobre modelos institucionais (The Portuguese parliament and technical controversies: notes on institutional models).	Sixth Portuguese Congress of Sociology: Social Worlds, Knowledge and Practices Portuguese Sociological Association
2008/06/26	Debates parlamentares e não-humanos: em torno de uma ecologia política (Parliamentary Debates and Non-Humans: Towards a Political Ecology)	Sixth Portuguese Congress of Sociology: Social Worlds, Knowledge and Practices Portuguese Sociological Association (Lisbon, Portugal)
2008/06/21	Ciência, Tecnologia e Participação: Narrativas e éticas leigas em torno das nanotecnologias emergentes, (Science, Technology and Participation: Narratives and Lay Ethics on emerging nanotechnologies)	International Colloquium “Ways of the Future: New Charts for the Social and Human Sciences” – Pre-Colloquium Workshop – Youngsters and the ways of the future Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais (Coimbra, Portugal)
2008/05/30	Parlamento, Conhecimento Científico e Deliberação: dois estudos de caso no Parlamento Português (Parliament, Scientific Knowledge and Deliberation: two case studies in the Portuguese Parliament)	VII Esocite – Latin-American Conference of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies Latin American Association of Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2008/05/30	Encenar, desenhar e debater futuros: os desafios das ciências e tecnologias emergentes (Staging, Designing and Debating Futures : the challenges of emerging sciences and technologies)	VII Esocite – Latin-American Conference of Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies Latin American Association of Social Studies of Science and Technology (ESOCITE) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2008/03/07	Conhecimento Científico e Deliberação no Parlamento Português: Os casos da energia nuclear e da Procriação Medicamente Assistida, (Scientific Knowledge and Deliberation in the Portuguese Parliament: The cases of Nuclear Energy and Medically Assisted Reproduction)	IV Congress of the Portuguese Association of Political Science Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal)
2007/11/23	Parlamento e Conhecimento Científico: Dupla Delegação? (Parliament and Scientific Knowledge: Double Delegation?)	Seminar Democracy, Deliberation and Public Participation ISCTE - Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Etnografia Virtual de Videojogos (Provisional title) Supervisor of Abel Gonçalves	MA in Sociology (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2024 - Current	Conflicts around farming in Alentejo (thesis topic) Supervisor of Sofia Onofre Ramos	Sociology (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023 - Current	“O Sol quando nasce, é para todos” - Imaginários sociotécnicos em torno de mega centrais fotovoltaicas (Provisional TItle) Co-supervisor of Diana Guardado	PhD in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/11 - Current	Climate Policy and Iberian Union Action Co-supervisor of João Garra	Interdisciplinary PhD in Political Economy Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023/07 - 2024	O PAPEL DAS INTERAÇÕES SOCIOECOLÓGICAS NO BEM-ESTAR DE GRUPOS VULNERÁVEIS Supervisor of Carolina Queirós	Masters in Social Intervention and Entrepreneurship (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2019/12 - 2024	Imaginários sociotécnicos de sementes crioulas no Brasil Supervisor of Ana Paula Moreira da Silva	PhD Program in "Science, Technology and Governance" (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2019/11 - 2022/01	Analysis of the Mechanisms of Implementation of the PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences in Angola, in collaboration with IHMT-NOVA Co-supervisor of Carolina Valério	MA in Public Health and Development (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2019/06 - 2022	Provisional thesis title: “Travel photography as a research methodology and a medium for dissemination of values: the case study of the Silk Road”. Co-supervisor of José Luís Santos	PhD Program in Contemporary History Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2019/04 - 2022	Provisional thesis title: “Human Rights and Protection of Nature in the Anthropocene” Co-supervisor of Madalena Peres	PhD Program 'Human Rights in Contemporary Societies' Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/11 - 2024/11	Member of the scientific committee of the 2024 Conference of the Thematic Section on Knowledge Science and Technology of the Portuguese Sociological Association (Rumos) (2024/11 - 2024/11)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2022	Organization of the thematic session "There is no Planet B: a debate on climate change and the Anthropocene' within the 'Ces vai à escola' program, a public outreach initiative where CES researchers share their findings with high school students. 20 sessions conducted overall (with Vera Ferreira and Ana Raquel Matos) (2019/09/01 - 2022) Other	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2021/11 - 2021/11	Member of the local organizing committee of the 2021 Conference of the Thematic Section on Knowledge Science and Technology of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2021/11/11 - 2021/11/12) Conference	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2021/06/15 - 2021/06/16	Organization of the Conference "Beyond Modernity: Alternative Incursions into the Anthropocene" (with Mariana Riquito) (2021/06/15 - 2021/06/16) Conference (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2020/08/18 - 2020/08/21	Organization of the open panel "The Ontological Politics of the Anthropocene" at the joint Conference of the the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) 2020 Conference in Prague (2020/08/18 - 2020/08/21) Conference (Co-organisor)
2020/03/02 - 2020/03/02	Organization of the Panel "As políticas do Antropoceno em Portugal: Ontologias, Discursos e Energia" (The politics of the Anthropocene in Portugal: Ontologies, Discourses and Energy" (with Vera Ferreira) at the International Seminar on Environment and Society - Current Challenges and Pathways to Change, organized by the Environment and Society Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association (2020/03/02 - 2020/03/03) Seminar (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2019/10/30 - 2019/10/30	Organization of the Seminar "As múltiplas faces do Antropoceno: política, agência e crise ontológica" (The multiple faces of the Anthropocene: politics, agency and ontological crisis” (with Vera Ferreira) (2019/10/30 - 2019/10/30) Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/07/08 - 2019/07/10	Session Chair, Encontro Ciência ’19. Session “Ação Climática (Climate Action) (II)” (2019/07/08 - 2019/07/10) Congress (Other)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2018/10/17 - 2018/10/17	Session Chair, WCQR2018: 3rd World Conference on Qualitative Research. Session 9D: Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research (2018/10/16 - 2018/10/18) Conference (Other)	Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/05/28 - 2018/05/28	Organization (with Ana Raquel Matos) of the Seminar “O teatro da Comissão Técnica Nacional de Biossegurança (CTNBio): purificação e legitimidade na ciência regulatória brasileira” (The National Technical Biosafety Commission (CTNBio) theatre: purification and legitimacy in Brazilian regulatory science), (2018/05/28 - 2018/05/28) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2012/10/17 - 2012/10/20	Panel Convenor (with Andrew Pickering), “Technologies of the Self”, Joint Conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science and European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. (2012/10/17 - 2012/10/20) Conference	Københavns Universitet, Denmark
2010/10/29 - 2010/10/30	Organization of the “New Ontologies Workshop - An International Interdisciplinary Seminar” - http://newontologies.blogspot.com/ (2010/10/29 - 2010/10/30) Workshop (Co-organisor)	University of Exeter College of Social Sciences and International Studies, United Kingdom
2009/03 - 2009/03	Organization of a Deliberative Forum on Nanotechnologies, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, funded by the European Commission (Project DEEPEN) (2009/03 - 2009/03) Other (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2008/05 - 2008/05	Organization of the workshop “Reshaping Human Life: Medically Assisted Reproduction, Stem Cells and Genetics” (Forum "Life Sciences and Society: Challenges of the Post-Genomic Era"), (2008/05 - 2008/05) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2008/02 - 2008/02	Organization of the workshop “The Commodification of Life, Health, and the Environment: Challenges and Responses” (Forum "Life Sciences and Society: Challenges of the Post-Genomic Era") (2008/02 - 2008/02) Workshop (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2008/01 - 2008/02	Organization of Focus Groups on the ethical and social impacts of Nanotechnologies, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, funded by the European Commission (Project DEEPEN) (2008/01 - 2008/02) Other (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/07 - 2024/07	Participation in the Summer University of the University of Coimbra, organized by the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Economics Other	Summer University Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2017/09/08 - 2017/09/08	Keynote Speaker, Roundtable on “Nanotechnologies and Society: From Research to the Citizen”, Organized by the Knowledge, Technology and Science section of the Portuguese Sociological Association. Round table	“Nanotecnologias e sociedade: da investigação ao cidadão (Nanotechnologies and Society: From Research to the Citizen) International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
2012/05 - 2012/05	Discussion via Skype with members of the Theatre Company MARIONET, based in Coimbra, during the preparation of the play NANO T http://www.marioneteatro.com/2012/nano-t/?lang=en Other
2011/05 - 2011/05	Participation in the discussion series “Other Data Club”, organized by the Theatre Company MARIONET, within the scope of the play “Two Cyborgs in an empty room”, Coimbra. Round table	Other Data Club

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/10	O AGRONEGÓCIO NEOLIBERAL, A SUSTENTABILIDADE AMBIENTAL E A EXPLORAÇÃO DO TRABALHO BRAÇAL EM CANAVIAIS DE SÃO PAULO (Thesis) Arguer	Gilberto Penha Araújo (PhD) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2024/10	Sustainable Extractivism in Ghana? Exploring the Socio-Environmental Impacts of Illegal Artisanal Mining (PhD Thesis Proposal) (Thesis) Main arguer	Andy-Vans Poku Duah (Other) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2024/09	A IMPLEMENTAÇÃO DO FOGO CONTROLADO ENQUANTO ESTRATÉGIA DE GESTÃO FLORESTAL E DO RISCO DE INCÊNDIO President of the jury	Paulo Jorge Matias Mendes (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2024/09	AVALIAÇÃO DA VULNERABILIDADE E DO RISCO DE INCÊNDIOS RURAIS EM MONDIM DE BASTO President of the jury	Maria da Graça Ferreira Pires (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2024/07	POBREZA ENERGÉTICA EM PORTUGAL - A GOVERNAÇÃO NO COMBATE ÀS ASSIMETRIAS SOCIAIS E TERRITORIAIS President of the jury	Beatriz Salafranca (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023/10	Activismo y participación comunitaria juvenil frente a la crisis ecológica en el movimiento asociativo de jóvenes marcoenses ZORA (Marco de Canaveses, Portugal) (PhD Thesis Project) (Thesis) Main arguer	Rosmel Rodríguez Barroso (Other) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023/04	As Comunidades Sustentáveis Intencionais como Laboratórios de Inovação Social (Thesis) Arguer	Carla V. S F. Nogueira (PhD) Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022/10	Ação climática na América Latina: trajetórias de uma racionalidade ambiental alternativa na Bolívia, Equador e Venezuela (PhD Project) (Thesis) Arguer	Rosmel Rodríguez Barroso (Other) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2020/06/02	"Gestão e avaliação do desempenho com foco nos resultados: estudo de caso da Secretaria Estadual de Saúde de Pernambuco" (Thesis) Arguer	Luciana Caroline Albuquerque Bezerra (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2020/05/15	"Avaliação da Coordenação da Atenção entre Níveis Assistenciais às Doenças Crônicas Não Transmissíveis em um Município do Estado de Pernambuco, Brasil" (Thesis) Main arguer	Marina Ferreira de Medeiros Mendes (PhD) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2018/07/02	“Sociedades Virtuais: análise etnográfica e afectiva da prática de videojogos” (Virtual Societies: ethnographic and affective analysis of videogame practices), MA dissertation in Anthropology (Thesis) Main arguer	Tomás Pereira Botelho (Master) Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024 - Current	The Sociological Review	Sage Publishing
2024 - Current	The Anthropocene Review	Sage Publishing
2023 - Current	Environmental Science and Policy	Elsevier
2023 - Current	Social Movement Studies	Taylor & Francis
2022 - Current	Humanities & Social Sciences Communications	Springer Nature
2022 - Current	Energy Research and Social Science	Elsevier
2021/07 - Current	BMJ Global Health	BMJ Journals
2019/05 - Current	Cescontexto	Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
2019 - Current	Global Public Health	Taylor & Francis Online
2019 - Current	Science Technology & Human Values (1552-8251)	SAGE Publications
2017 - Current	Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (2182-7435)	OpenEdition
2016 - 2020	Public Understanding of Science (1361-6609)	SAGE Publications
2019 - 2019	Estudos de Sociologia (ISSN 1414-0144)	Open Journal Systems
2018 - 2018	Revista Portuguesa de Pedagogia (1647-8614)	Coimbra University Press

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2023 - Current	CYTED EVINC (Programa Iberoamericano de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo)	Member
2022 - Current	Geographies of Mindfulness	Member
2018 - Current	Healthcare Information For All (HIFA)	Member
2017 - Current	STS Italia	Member
2012 - Current	European Association for the Study of Science and Technology	Member
2011 - Current	Portuguese Sociological Association	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Member of the Thesis Committee of Viliina Kaikkonen, PhD student in Global Development Studies at the University of Helsinki Member	Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
2021/06 - Current	Member of the Editorial Staff of the journal Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais Member	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024 - Current	2024 Conference of the Thematic Section on Knowledge Science and Technology of the Portuguese Sociological Association (Rumos)	NOVA FCSH
2023 - Current	3rd International Conference \| Social and Solidarity Economy and the Commons	ISCTE, Lisbon

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Collaboration with Karolína Žižková, Anna Remešová and Martina Johnová from the Hranicár Gallery (Usti nad Labem, Czechia) during the preparation of an exhibition on lithium mining

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Climate Change and Society	Sociologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023 - Current	Introduction to Risk Sciences	Dinâmicas Sociais e Riscos Naturais (Mestrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023 - Current	Contemporary Portuguese Society	Sociologia (Mestrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023 - Current	Research Workshop	Relações Internacionais (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2022 - Current	Issues on Sociology of Politics and Democracy	Sociologia (Mestrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2021/03/01 - Current	PhD Program Democracy in the 21st Century, seminar "Governance, Knowledge(s) and Participation"	PhD Program Democracy in the 21st Century	Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/10/23 - Current	Invited Lecture on public engagement with nanotechnologies within the module "Communication of Social Science", course "Science Schools: post-pandemic challenges and opportunities"		Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Centro de Investigação em Comunicação Aplicada Cultura e Novas Tecnologias, Portugal
2018/09 - Current	"Seminar of Science, Technology and Knowledge in Society", PhD Program "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation"	PhD in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation (Sociology/Economics) (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2025/02 - 2025/05	Advanced Research Issues	Intervenção Social, Inovação e Empreendedorismo (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2025/02 - 2025/05	Extracurricular Activities	Intervenção Social, Inovação e Empreendedorismo (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/05	Research Methods	Gestão (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/05	Advanced Research Issues	Intervenção Social, Inovação e Empreendedorismo (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
2023/02 - 2023/05	Cities, Space and Urban Life	Sociologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Research Methods	Sociologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Introduction to Social Sciences	Economia (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Qualitative Research Methods	Sociologia (Licenciatura)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
2020/12/14 - 2020/12/18	Trainer in the Winter School 'Sustainable development, complexity and change: thinking and practices for the SDG and other objectives'		Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2019/05/24 - 2019/05/24	Ontologias do Antropoceno - Tecnologias Emergentes, Afeto e Heterogeneidade Política (Ontologies of the Anthropocene - Emerging Technologies, Affect and Political Heterogeneity), Seminar of Science, Technology and Knowledge in Society, PhD Program "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation" (Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra).	PhD Program "Governance, Knowledge and Innovation" (Doutoramento)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia, Portugal Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2018/04 - 2019/03	Specialization Course in Public Health, “Sociology of Health” module (regular collaboration)	Specialization Course in Public Health (Diploma de especialização)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2018/04/10 - 2018/04/10	“Contemporary practice and research on Mindfulness: an example of medicalization?”. “Sociology of Health” module of the Specialization Course on Public Health	Specialization Course on Public Health (Diploma de especialização)	Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical, Portugal
2016/10 - 2017/02	Cultural and Social Anthropology and Social Themes and Problems in Contemporary Societies	BA in Socio-educational animation and numerous other courses (Licenciatura)	Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/10/01 - 2016/09/30	Research Methods	MA in Architecture (Mestrado)	Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra, Portugal
2015/10 - 2016/09	Sociology, Art and Culture, Art and Communication	BA in Architecture and Communication Design (Licenciatura)	Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra, Portugal
2012/01/01 - 2014/04/30	Graduate Teaching Assistant - Theoretical Sociology (Lecturer: Professor Tony King); Contemporary Social Theory (Lecturer: Professor Tony King); Into The Field (Qualitative Research Methods, Lecturer: Dr Scott Vrecko); Introduction to Social Anthropology II (Lecturer: Dr. Gisa Weszkalnys).	Sociology and Anthropology (Bachelor)	University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2010/03/01 - 2011/05/01	Organization of the Cyborg Studies Reading Group with Andrew Pickering (2010) and Scott Vrecko (2011)		University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

	Activity description	Newspaper / Forum
2024/11	Interview with the Portuguese newspaper “A Cabra”, newspaper of the University of Coimbra on the topic of denialism in science	A Cabra
2023/11	Interview with the Portuguese newspaper “A Cabra”, newspaper of the University of Coimbra. Resulting article: Transição energética num país em revolta: "respostas" às alterações climáticas (Energy transition in a country in revolt: “answers” to climate change).	A Cabra (newspaper of the University of Coimbra)
2023/10	Interview with the Portuguese Magazine “Green Savers” on the topic of the environmental movement in Portugal	Green Savers

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2022/10 - Current	Semana à Sexta, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra	Energy Crisis
2022/08 - Current	Invited speaker at “Conversas Inquietas” on the topic “Pode o Cuidado ser Subversivo?” within the Festival de Artes Performativas – Linha de Fuga. Debate Series organized by the Centre for Social Studies and Mundus. Session 3 – Ecology as Care. Coimbra, Rádio Baixa.
2022/07 - Current	Invited Speaker at the Radio Show “Há vida(s) nesta Cidade! #16 com Gonçalo Canto Moniz e Joana Vaz Sousa”, Rádio Universidade de Coimbra (RUC). Interview conducted by Claudino Ferreira and Isabel Simões (RUC).
2018/06/04 - 2018/06/04	Participation in the TV show “Nanotecnologia do Avesso” (Nanotechnology Inside Out), interview conducted by Paulo Martins, coordinator of Renanosoma - Brazilian Research Network in Nanotechnology, Society and Environment.	Public Engagement with Nanotechnologies

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2021 - Current	Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais

Mentoring / Tutoring

	Topic	Student name
2024 - Current	"Speculative Design Anthropology for (post)digital futures"	Andrea Gaspar
2023/06 - 2023/06	research on mindfulness and political ecology	Sebastián Escámez Navas
2023/01 - 2023/06	Transition Minerals and Sociotechnical Imaginaries	Viliina Kaikkonen
2021/10 - 2022/07	Scientific Supervisior of Elaine Santos, research assistant with the project TROPO - Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal, coordinated by António Carvalho	Elaine Santos
2021/10 - 2022/07	Scientific Supervisior of Joana Canelas, research assistant with the project TROPO - Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal, coordinated by António Carvalho	Joana Canelas
2020/10/15 - 2021/09/15	Scientific Supervisor of Mariana Riquito, Research Asssistant with the project TROPO, coordinated by António Carvalho	Mariana Riquito
2020/03 - 2020/07	Scientific Supervisior of Eber Quinonez, research assistant with the project TROPO - Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal, coordinated by António Carvalho	Eber Quinonez
2019/02/15 - 2020/01	Scientific Supervisior of Vera Ferreira, research assistant with the project TROPO - Anthropocenic Ontologies in Portugal, coordinated by António Carvalho	Vera Ferreira
2008 - 2009	Supervisor of Verónica Ambrósio	Verónica Ambrósio

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2025 - Current	Reviewer of application submitted in the frame of the Research Foundation Flanders' (FWO) support to postdoctoral researchers through the European Science Foundation
2024 - Current	Reviewer of application to the Call for Junior and Senior Research Projects of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) through the European Science Foundation

Distinctions

Other distinction

2017	Associate Researcher, Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (2017-2018)
2015	Associate Research Fellow University of Exeter, United Kingdom
2014	Travel Fund (Awarded on a Competitive Basis) University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2014	Student Scholarship
2014	Research Fellow Mind and Life Institute, United States
2014	Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Postdoctoral Plan (Declined) Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2013	Travel Fund (Awarded on a Competitive Basis) University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2012	Travel Fund (Awarded on a Competitive Basis) University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2011	Travel Fund (Awarded on a Competitive Basis) University of Exeter Department of Sociology Philosophy and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009	PhD Scholarship (SFRH/BD/62928/2009) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal