Henrique Leitão
Henrique Leitão is Senior Researcher in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He is currently Provost (pro-reitor) of the University of Lisbon and Director of Lisbon University Press. After his initial studies in Theoretical Physics (PhD 1998), he directed his interests to the History of Science.
His research interests focus on the history of European exact sciences in the 16th and 17th centuries, including cosmography and cartography. He has created and leads a very active research team in Early Modern Science. He has edited the works of the most renowned 16th-century Portuguese mathematicians and cosmographers, such as Pedro Nunes, Francisco de Melo, and Fernando Oliveira; he has also written more than twenty books and numerous academic papers.
He was one of the founders of the Center for the History of Science and the Bachelor's Program in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Lisbon. He also founded the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, where he served as Head of Department.
He is a member of several academic societies, including the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and the International Academy for the History of Science. He has received numerous awards, including the Pessoa Prize in 2014, and a Presidential Decoration for Outstanding Academic Merit. In 2018, he was awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council.
Javier Ordóñez (1947, Pamplona, Spain) completed advanced studies in Physical Sciences (Fundamental Physics) in 1970 and in Philosophy and Literature in 1973. In 1977, he earned his PhD in Philosophy from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1980, he joined the Autonomous University of Madrid as a Senior Lecturer and researcher. In 2000, he was appointed Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He is currently an emeritus professor at the UAM.
He has been a visiting professor at the City University of New York/CUNY (USA), the University of Quilmes (Argentina), the Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Monterrey/ITESM (Mexico), UNAM (Mexico), the Max-Planck Institute for Science Studies/MPIWG (Berlin), and Humboldt University (Berlin). From 1991 to 1996, he served as Vice-Rector for Research at the Autonomous University of Madrid. He served on the Advisory Council of the Alfonso Reyes Chair at the Monterrey Institute of Technology from 2000 to 2006. He has participated in research projects from 1985 to the present.
His notable publications include critical editions of key texts in the history of science, such as Boltzmann's Escritèges de Mecanique et Thermodinamica (1986) and Laplace's Exposition on the World System (2012); as well as, as a result of his collaboration with the Alfonso Reyes Chair, the book Ciencia, Tecnología e Historia: relaciones y Diferencias (2001). He is also co-author, with José Manuel Sánchez Ron, of Historia de la Ciencia (2004).
In recent years, he has focused his research on the relationship between epistemology and war, addressing the emergence of standards and the use of craft knowledge.
Javier Ordóñez
António Branco is a scientist whose research focuses on AI and the subfield dedicated to Natural Language Processing. He leads a pioneering research team in open-source, generative AI language models for the Portuguese language, including Albertina (encoders), Gervásio (decoders), and Serafim (sentence embedders).
He is the Director of PORTULAN CLARIN, the Research Infrastructure for Language Sciences and Technology, which is part of the Portuguese National Network of Research Infrastructures of Strategic Interest and the national node of the European CLARIN ERIC infrastructure, along with more than twenty member countries.
He is the Honorary President of the Language Resources Association (ELRA), having served as its president from 2018 to 2022.
He co-founded the Mind-Brain Doctoral College at the University of Lisbon and the interfaculty doctoral program in Cognitive Science, which he coordinated (2020-2024).
António Branco is a Professor at the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Sciences, Department of Computational Science) and leads the NLX - Natural Language and Speech Group.
António Branco
Elena Garayzábal
Elena Garayzábal holds a degree and PhD in Spanish Philology from the Autonomous University of Madrid, and a diploma in speech therapy. She is also a forensic expert.
Her research interests include clinical linguistics and forensic linguistics.
She is a member of national and international research groups and has been invited numerous times to teach, give seminars and conferences in Spain and abroad.
She has published numerous works and articles and contributed to book chapters.
In 2009, she organized the First International Congress of Clinical Linguistics in Spain, and in 2010, she organized the First (In)formative Conference on Forensic Linguistics, which continues today.
She is a professional collaborator of the Williams Syndrome Association and the Smith-Magenis Syndrome Association and has organized courses in collaboration with the Institute of Forensic Sciences and Security, Ministry of the Interior.
Filipa Maria Valido-Viegas de Paula-Soares
She holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, Portuguese and French Studies from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and a PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is a Professor at the Autonomous University of Madrid and Academic Secretary of the Department of General Linguistics, Modern Languages, Logic and Philosophy of Science, Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, and East Asian Studies. She was Deputy Director of the Department in 2021. She is a member of the UAM Communication, Poetics and Rhetoric (CPyR) research group and a principal researcher at IULCE (University Institute "The Court in Europe"). She is the Director of the Camões Portuguese Language Center in Madrid and the Coordinator of Portuguese as a Foreign Language Teaching at the Camões Institute for Spain and Andorra since 2010. She serves on the Portuguese Linguistics Committee of the CRUE (Cultural University of Madrid). She is a member of the jury of the Lusófono da Trofa Literary Competition (Portugal). Her research focuses on the study of Portuguese-language literature as a symbol of national identity. She is also a specialist in 19th-century literature (the Generation of 1970) and the Portuguese avant-garde movements. She has supervised several doctoral theses and final degree projects throughout her academic career.
Yuko Morimoto
Yuko Morimoto holds a PhD in Hispanic Philology from the Complutense University of Madrid and a Master's degree in Linguistics from Sophia University in Tokyo.
She is a Full Professor of Spanish Language at the Carlos III University of Madrid and has been a visiting professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the Catholic University of Leuven, and the University of Cologne. In addition to her teaching work in various undergraduate and graduate programs in the field of Spanish language and linguistics, she has extensive experience teaching Spanish and Japanese as foreign languages.
Her research activities have focused mainly on the following areas of interest: Spanish grammar; lexical theory and its relationship to syntax; teaching Spanish as a foreign language; and contrastive linguistics and its application to the teaching and learning of foreign languages. She participates in various R&D projects and has organized international conferences and seminars.
Her recent publications include: Los artículos del español en contraste (Arco/Libros, 2021); "Aspect and Evidentiality in the Japanese Construction <v + {-te ~ -de}+ iru>", Revista Española de Lingüística 50/2 (2020); "Transitivity and Intransitivity in Spanish and Japanese", in Takagaki, T. (ed.), Explorations of Spanish-Japanese Contrastive Linguistics (UAM Ediciones, 2018).
