Moisés de Lemos Martins is a Full Professor at Universidade Lusófona, in the Porto University Center, where he directs the Faculty of Communication, Architecture, Arts and Information Technologies (FCAATI) and the Department of Communication and Arts. He is the President of the Ibero-American Association of Communication Researchers – Assibercom. Retired Full Professor at the University of Minho, he directed the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) until 2022, which he founded in 2001. Until 2022 he was the Director of the journal Comunicação e Sociedade, and also of the Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais of which he was the founder. He was also the Director of the journal Vista (2020-2022). He founded, in 2017, the Museu Virtual da Lusofonia, which was installed on Google Arts and Culture, in 2021, and converted into one Cultural Unit of the UMinho, in 2022. He directed it until 2023. With a PhD from the University of Strasbourg in Social Sciences (in specialty of Sociology), in 1984, he has published, within the scope of Sociology of Culture, Social Semiotics, Sociology of Communication, Visual Semiotics, Intercultural Communication, Lusophone Studies, Science Policy. He directed the Institute of Social Sciences (UMinho) for ten years (1996-2000, and 2004-2010). He was a candidate for Rector of the UMinho, in 2006. He was the promoter and the first Director of the PhD course in Communication Sciences, UMinho (2009-2011); of the Doctoral Program in Cultural Studies, a consortium between UMinho and University of Aveiro (2010-2017); and of the PhD Program “Communication Studies: Technology, Culture and Society” (2013-2015), supported by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), which involves six Portuguese research centres, from five universities. He was president of Sopcom - Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (2005-2015); Lusocom - Federation of Lusophone Associations of Communication Sciences (2011-2015); and Confibercom - Ibero-American Confederation of Scientific and Academic Communication Associations (2012-2015). Among his main publications are: Pensar Portugal. A Modernidade de um País Antigo (2021); Crise no Castelo da Cultura. Das Estrelas para os Ecrãs (2011); A Linguagem, a Verdade e o Poder. Ensaio de Semiótica Social (2002); Para uma Inversa Navegação. O Discurso da Identidade (1996); O Olho de Deus no Discurso Salazarista (1990); A Internacionalização das Comunidades Lusófonas e Ibero-Americanas de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. O Caso das Ciências da Comunicação (2017); Lusofonia e Interculturalidade - Promessa e Travessia (2015); Políticas de Ciência e da Língua, Publicação Científica e Rankings Académicos (with Helena Pires, 2023); Pandemia e (Des)informação (com Laranjeira, Silva, Joron, Moraes e Júnior, 2023); Handbook of Research on Urban Tourism, Society, and the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Pedro Andrade, 2022); Linguagens, Sociedades e Culturas – Interfaces (with Regina Brito and Ana Travisan, 2022); Do Post ao Postal (with Maria da Luz Correia, 2014); Os Postais Ilustrados na Vida da Comunidade (2017); Figurações da Morte nos Média e na Cultura. Entre o Estranho e o Familiar (with Maria da Luz Correia, Paulo Bernardo Vaz and Elton Antunes, 2017); Sentidos da Morte na Vida da Mídia (with Maria da Luz Correia, Paulo Bernardo Vaz and Elton Antunes, 2017); Imagem e Pensamento (with José Bragança de Miranda, Madalena Oliveira and Jacinto Godinho, 2017); L'Imaginaire des Médias (with Michel Maffesoli, 2011); Portugal Ilustrado em Postais (with Madalena Oliveira, 2011). In 2015, the Brazilian Society for Interdisciplinary Communication Studies award him an academic distinction highlighting the merit of his scientific work. In 2016, the UMinho awarded him the distinction of Scientific Merit. In 2021, the University of Santiago de Compostela award him the Gold Insignia, highlighting the merit of his academic and associative activity in Portuguese-speaking countries.