Curriculum Vitae
Alexander Matthias Gerner
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alexander Matthias Gerner
Citation names
- Gerner, Alexander Matthias
- Gerner, Alexander
- Gerner, A.
- Gerner, A.M.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- E31F-D78B-6D17
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-0914-5591
Email addresses
- alexander.gerner@ulusofona.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://www.filmeu.eu/ (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - Philosophy
- Social Sciences - Media and Communications
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| German (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Greek | Beginner (A1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
| Portuguese | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
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2013/02/01 - 2019/06/30
Concluded
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Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
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Approved |
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2012/05/29
Concluded
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History and Philosophy of Science (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Philosophical Investigations of Attention" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Excellent (Aprovado com Distinção e Louvor) |
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2003/05/05 - 2003/08/30
Concluded
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Documentary Film Course (Outros)
Videotéca da Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal
Federação Portuguesa de Cinema e Audiovisuais, Portugal |
certification |
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1997
Concluded
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Germanistik/Ev. Theologie LA Gymnasium (Licenciatura)
Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Bildung und Kultus Wissenschaft und Kunst, Germany
"Semiotics of Laughter on Stage. A school of perception of drama in performances of Heinrich v. Kleist" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
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Employer | |
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| 2019/07/01 - 2023/11/30 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal | ||
| 2022/07/01 - 2023/06/30 | Auxiliary Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal (...) |
Others
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Employer | |
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| 2012/03/01 - 2012/07/31 | Coordinator of the study room ATL Galicia, (supported by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) support the content of 80 students (2 and 3 cycle) organization of volunteers and tutors, content monitoring | Santa Casa de Misericórdia Cascais, Portugal |
| ATL da Galiza, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/02/19 - 2026/12/31 | Digital Technologies of Persuasion and Creativity: a philosophical-interdisciplinary analysis
MCTI/CNPq no 14/2023
Invited Scientist Fellow
Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho - Câmpus de Marília, Brazil
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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico
Ongoing
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| 2013/02 - 2019/06/30 | Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
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Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2011/02 - 2014/07 | Fundamentos Cognitivos do Si
110978PRJ
Research Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2007/05 - 2011/03 | A Imagem na Ciência e na Arte
64201PRJ
Research Fellow
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2007/10 - 2011/01 | Teorias da Racionalidade - Neokantismo e fenomenologia
PTDC/FIL/71833/2006
71833PRJ
Research Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal |
Fundação Ciência e Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2006/01 - 2009/12 | INVESTIGAÇÃO FILOSÓFICA DA ATENÇÃO
18205DFA
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2007/03 - 2009/02 | Lógica Universal e Unidade da Ciência - Universal logics and Unity of Science | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências |
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2019/07/01 - 2023/11/30 | Hacking Humans. Dramaturgies and Technologies of Becoming Other
DL57/2016/CP1479/CT0062
Research Fellow
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
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| Edited book |
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| Exhibition catalog |
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Artistic / Performance
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/04/19 | Performative Truth of GenAI images - image forensics and the problematizing of the historical index in the age of GenAI” |
Universidade Lusófona, Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/15 | Fake/Face: AI Avatarization as social generative media of algorithmic faciality | Approcci semiotici e cognitivi al volto tra àlterità e alterazione
Università di Messina (Noto, Italy)
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| 2023/11/07 | The Quantum Connections platform at the Portuguese Quantum Institute | Global Quantum Connections Workshop on Global Cooperation in Quantum Technologies
Academia das Ciências (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2023/07/18 | AI Heritage Avatar Doubles: Exploring the Use of Large Presence, Digital Heritage and Testimony in Digital Twins | Digital Twins & Doubles. Data of Cooperation(=Annual Conference of the CRC Media of Cooperation)
Universität Siegen, SFB 1187 Medien der Kooperation (Siegen, Germany)
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| 2023/07/12 | Hacking into Avatars as Proxies: Towards a Philosophy of technology of digital substitution |
Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2022/12/02 | Hacking into the Avatar dream, AI- aesthetics and platforms of algorithmic facialities | Diagram and AI Aesthetics
CFCUL, FCUL, Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2020/01/17 | "Hacking Humans: Zu politischen, ethischen und ästhetischen Aspekten von (algorithmischen) Gesichtsprogrammierungen"/ "Hacking Humans: On political, ethical and aesthetic aspects of (algorithmically) programmed faciality" | Hacking the Computable
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Künste Stuttgart; ZhdK; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ästhetik; Staatliche Akademie der
Bildenden Künste Stuttgart Invitation Prof. Dieter Mersch ZHdK, Zürich (Stuttgart, Germany)
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| 2019/10/25 | Towards a Metaphorology of Temporality and the techno-social Uncanny | Temporality and Technology
Universität Wien, Austria, Invitation by Prof. Marc Coeckelbergh (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2019/10/22 | Antlitzverluste – Zum Kritischen Posthumanismus des Gesichts "Losing Face - On the Critical Posthumanism of the Face" https://medientheorie.uni-ak.ac.at/de/gastvortrag-alexander-gerner-universitaet-lissabon/ Have we already paid enough attention to the face and the different technical-mathematized ideas of the face as a "condensed image of man"? In the era of AI, Big Data and programmability of algorithmic-metric rationalizations of the social, this medium of the human has to be critically and posthumanly differentiated anew via artistic practices. | Medientheorie Media Theory
Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien (Invitation by Prof. Ingeborg Reichle) (Vienna, Austria)
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| 2019/09/20 | Hacking into programmed sociality of F2F encounters (Keynote Adress) – Post-truth and programmed sociality in the age of Big Data Chair: Rachel Meneguello (UNICAMP) | EBICC-XII INTERNATIONAL BRAZILIAN MEETING ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE Big Data: Ethical, epistemological and semiotical implications
to the self-organized cognition/action
Brazilian Cognitive Science Society (SBCC, http://www.sbcc.org.br/), UNICAMP: https://ebicc2019.wordpress.com/ (Campinas)
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| 2019/07/05 | From F2F encounters to Gesture-enhanced AI- sociality | Embodied AI - Exbodied Mind: Gesture - Perception - Robotics
German Research School for Simulation Sciences; RWTH Aachen; Chair of Theory of Science and Technology / Computational Science
Studies Lab LFG Linguistics and Cognitive Semiotics / Natural Media Lab (Aachen, Germany)
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| 2019/06/24 | Self-Melioration, Autonomy and Music-enriched Self-Control: On Enhancing Children´s Attention | Journadas de História e Filosofia das Ciências
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade das Ciências, Departamento de História e Filosofia das Ciências (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/12/03 | "Strata- Geophilosophische Notizen zu Sergio Costa" CRC 806 Lecture Series, Universität zu Köln, HS XVIIb Main Building UoC, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, Cologne | CRC 806 Lecture Series Wintersemester 2018/2019 University of Cologne
Collaborative Research Centre 806 Our Way to Europe (Cologne, Germany)
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| 2018/09/17 | "Avatar und Marionette: Proben und Nachfragen zur Alteritätserfahrung des Menschen in der Zeit seiner maschinell-technischen „Perfektionierbarkeit“ - "Avatar and Marionette: Rehearsals and inquiries about the experience of otherness by humans in the time of their machinic-technical " perfectability ". | Master Start-up Week "Human-Machine (Mensch-Maschine)"master-cluster) do DDK {departament of Performing Arts and Cinema Department/Department
Darstellende Künste und Film} Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Züricher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich, Switzerland)
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| 2018/06/18 | Towards a body-rhetoric and music semiotics following C.S Peirce: from hearing voices without bodies to music and gesture-based enhancements Room 8 (3rd floor) Panel 28 17h00-17h45 presented at the University of Helsinki at the third European Pragmatism Conference University of Helsinki, Finland, in 13-15 June 2018, Fabianinkatu 33 The conference is organized by the Nordic Pragmatism Network in collaboration with Associazione Pragma (Italy), Pragmata (France), the Central European Pragmatist Forum and the European Pragmatism Association. | Third European Pragmatism Conference University of Helsinki, Finland
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI (Helskini, Finland)
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| 2018/05/29 | Anmerkungen zu Lost &Found im Theater-Spiel, Regeln-des-Spiels und (Such-) maschinen von Alterität 11-12 Uhr Oblichtsaal 7E02; ZhdK Zürich, Switzerland Ludifikation in Theater. Neue Utopien des Theatralen (org. Institut für Theorie (ZhdK) DKV und DDK/ Master Theater) | Ludifikation in Theater. Neue Utopien des Theatralen "Ludification in Theater. New Utopia of the Teatrical"
Züricher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich, Switzerland)
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| 2017/12/05 | Philosophy of cognitive enhancement as a philosophy of human technology: deliberations on attention enhancements in children for policy and political advice Invited keynote speaker https://eventos.fct.unl.pt/winterschool-ta/announcements/8th-winter-school-technology-assessment | 8th Winter School on Technology Assessment 8ª Escola de Inverno em Avaliação de Tecnologia
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (Lisbon)
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| 2017/11/24 | Gesture-based cognitive enhancements by random walks and human digital body doubles 13.11.2017 Universidade do Porto, Faculdade das Belas Artes, Congresso Art16# 15h30-16h30 panel Art & Technology http://16art.medialab.ufg.br/ Program: http://16art.medialab.ufg.br/#themes-section Paper presentation: Alexander Matthias Gerner 24.11.2017 14h-14h30 | Congresso Art16#
Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade de Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2017/11/24 | Hacking, messing around, enhancing, flattening or resisting the embodied alien? Probing Dramaturgies and Technologies of xenoresonance. KEYWORDS embodied alien phenomenology, hacking, technical Interfaces of Cognitive enhancement, xenoresonance Cologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LAB 2017 #01_ Technologies of Alterity Anfiteatro da FCiências.ID, Building C1, 3rd floor Faculdade das Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande Organized by: Dr. Alexander Gerner, Philosophy of Human Technology, CFCUL Prof. Thiemo Breyer, a.r.t | Cologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LAB 2017 #01_ Technologies of Alterity
CFCUL, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2017/10/04 | Human Technologies and Dramaturgies of altered experiences: Avatar (schizophrenia) therapies and the virtual uncanny 4.10. Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisboa Face-Mask-Avatar-Embodiment Think Tank Meeting 3.-5.10.2017 ith Zurich (zdhk)/ PhilhumTech (CFCUL) 14h45-15h30 Alexander Gerner: | Face-Mask-Avatar-Embodiment Think Tank Meeting
CFCUL, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2017/09/14 | Proben zu einer semiotischen Körperrhetorik mit Avataren ausgehend von C.S Peirce | International Congress of Semiotic : Grenzen// Borders http://www.semiotik.eu/kongressprogramm Panel 6: Objektgebrauch als
Zeichenprozess (Sektionen Körper und Sprachwissenschaft)
Universität Passau, Passau, Germany (Passau, Germany)
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| 2017/06/01 | Interdisciplinary Rehearsals on `Resonance´ - towards a >>social ´acoustics’<<? Panel: AI, Brain, Cognitive Science IASC 2017 International Conference June 1st & 2nd, 2017 FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA https://iasc.me/2017-conference/ 16h30-17h, Anfiteatro da Fundação ID-Ciencias, Faculty of Science University of Lisbon, 1st of June 2017 | IASC 2017 International Conference
CFCUL, Centro de Filosofia das Ciências da Unersidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2017/03/11 | "Techno-fenomenology of "out of Body" experiences. Notes on autoscopy. "Techno-fenomenologia de experiências “fora de si”. Notas sobre a autoscopia" Margens inquietas - entre o normal e o patológico 7º simpósio Serviço de Psiquiatria do Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca Hotel Villa Rica, Lisboa, 11/3/2017 17h-18h30 painel Do eu ao outro 11.3.2017 Invited Conference Alexander Gerner | Margens inquietas - entre o normal e o patológico 7º simpósio Serviço de Psiquiatria do Hospital Prof. Doutor Fernando Fonseca
Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Lisbon, Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2016/10/29 | Probing Cognitive Enhancements in Social „resonance“: the case of aesthetic community of sensing and playing music together | Common Sense and Science & Technology
FCUL_ISCTE org. by the network "RICOS"(London School of Economics; Coordination Martin Bauer) (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2016/08/06 | Beyond “Crimes against minds“: Mapping cognitive “enhancement” technologies (ethical, policy, (criminal) law, and human rights aspects)(=Moral Enhancement and Penal Law System I) 8th of June 2016 17h30-18h30 Lisbon University Law School | Faculty of Law University of Lisbon | Anfiteatro 8, Piso 0 Conference; Anfiteatro 8, Piso 0 | “Direito e Medicina”: Novos e Velhos Problemas
Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Direito (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2016/03/08 | How can we enhance perspectives on pediatric (neuro)enhancement of attention? Program: https://cognitiveenhancement.weebly.com/ Announcement: https://portal.ikw.uni-osnabrueck.de/~neuroenhancement/ | Klausurwoche/Research Week on Pediatric Neuro-Enhancement Ethical, social, and legal questions in comparison between North
America and Germany
Organisation: Dr. Saskia Nagel (University of Twente, Netherlands) (Osnabrück, Germany)
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| 2016/02/25 | Mapa breve em direcção a uma filosofia do melhoramento cognitivo Invited Presentation in the "Debate on Ethics of Lifesciences: Cognitive enhancement" da Ciência Viva, Series of Debates organised at Ciência Viva of Ethics in Life Sciences co-- organized by Ciência Viva and the National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences (CNECV), 25 de Fevereiro, 19h30 no Pavilhão do Conhecimento – Ciência Viva. Lisboa [artigo no jornal "Observador"] |
Ciência Viva http://www.cienciaviva.pt/diac/25fev.asp (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016/02/11 | Strata.Geophilosophical Notes on Sérgio Costa | Journées d'études: Le morphologique au carrefour de l'empirique, du formel et du logique. Sous la responsabilité de
CFCUL (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2016/01/07 | Philosophy of gesture-based cognitive enhancements- Notes on gesture, diagram, embodiment. 15-16h30 | Faculty of Arquitecture University of Lisbon, Auditorium 4.023 Dialogues on Spatial Theory and Practice with Alexander Gerner (CFCUL) lecture on Philosophy of gesture-based cognitive enhancements- Notes on gesture, diagram, embodiment. | Dialogues on Spatial Theory and Practice with Alexander Gerner, Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon, Auditorium
4.023
Liljana Cavic, Faculty of Architecture University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2016/10/01 - 2022/04/08 | Desenhando a Música: análise da composição e da escuta segundo o conceito peirceano de diagrama (Designing Music: analysis
of composition and listening according to the peircean concept of the diagram)
FCT PhD grant: PD/BD/128480/2017
Supervisor of Vinícius Jonas de Aguiar
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Filosofia da Ciência, Tecnologia, Arte e Sociedade (associação) (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2016/05/01 - 2018/02/23 | Neuroscientific, Psychological and Clinical-Philosophical Approaches to Voice-Hearing: A Critical Systematic Review
Co-supervisor of Franziska Anne Stanke
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Ciência Cognitiva (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/05/08 - 2024/05/09 | Aesthetics and Memory in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Artificial Intelligence Avatars, Algorithmic Cinema
and Issues in Digital Media Philosophy: This workshop explores the intersections between the aesthetics of artificial intelligence
(AI), digital memory and algorithmic filmmaking. https://www.faculdadedesaobento.com.br/_files/ugd/88f16d_00264f45b3ca439b9ef6beab5353009a.pdf
(2024/05/08 - 2024/05/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Escola de Comunicação Arquitectura Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, Portugal Faculdade de São Bento, Brazil |
| 2023/11/06 - 2023/11/06 | Thinking with Prof. Gabriele Gramelsberger’s philosophy of the digital https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/thinking-with-prof-gabriele-gramelsbergers-philosophy-of-the-digital/
Reflections of Prof. Gabriele Gramelsberger (RWTH Aachen) on her book „Philosophie des Digitalen“ (2023) will kickstart our
debate in this research seminar on “Philosophies of the Digital” considering various attributes of the digital, as exposed
by Gramelsberger including her accounts of deconventionalization, desemantisation, epistemological discrete operationality, (2023/11/06 - 2023/11/06)
Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2023/06/01 - 2023/09/23 | 1º Simpósio Internacional de Filosofia Contemporânea:
Inteligência Artificial e Mídias Sociais
22 /09/ 2023 | sexta-feira | das 13h às 17h
23 /09/2023 | sábado | das 9h às13h
LOCAL: Universidade de São Bento, Faculdade de São Bento, Largo de São Bento, s/n, São Paulo, Brasil
(2023/09/22 - 2023/09/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Faculdade de São Bento de São Paulo, Brazil |
| 2023/07/12 - 2023/07/12 | Panel organized @ LICPOS 2023 Towards a Philosophy of Technology of Proxies https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/reunioes/simposio-towards-a-philosophy-of-technology-of-proxies-no-ambito-da-licpos-2023/
How do we deal with the uncertainties and errors arising from using proxies in Philosophy of the digital in complexity science
in recommender systems?
Jorge Louçã (ISCTE-IUL) – From Science as explanation to Science for action: how data proxies can endanger diversity
Alexander M. Gerner (CFCUL/GI3) – Hacking into Avatars as Proxies
(2023/07/12 - 2023/07/12)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2023/04/06 - 2023/04/06 | AI aesthetics II : Performing with AI Aesthetics: Promptology, Style, Acting, Norms, Noise & Modality Fusion Research Workshop
Series AI AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY org. by Alexander Gerner & via zoom Call: https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/AI-Aesthetics-II-6-4-2023-Call.pdf
Program: https://cfcul.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/wp-content (2023/04/06 - 2023/04/06)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2022/12/02 - 2022/12/03 | Lisbon Workshop Series-
AI Aesthetics and
Philosophy of Technologyorg.
Alexander Gerner
(FCUL; CFCUL)
Meeting I:
"Diagram and
AI-Aesthetics"
Part One: 2.12.2022
Part Two: 3.12.2022 (virtual/online, Zoom) (2022/12/02 - 2022/12/03)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2019/12/13 - 2019/12/13 | Hacking into sonic algorithmic aesthetics. On noise, silence, sound, voices and music in the age of AI
Think Tank II with Prof. Dieter Mersch(ZHdK, Switzerland); Dr. Hanns Holger Rutz (University of Music and Performing Arts
(KUG)Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM), Dr. Miguel Marques Cardoso, Alexander Gerner (CFCUL),
Org. by Philosophy of Human technology//
Hacking Humans. Dramaturgies and Technologies of Becoming Other (2019/12/13 - 2019/12/13)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2019/11/26 - 2019/11/26 | BIG DATA Think Tank: BIG DATA/AI_ Politics & Society- Workshop/Thinktank Series organized by Alexander Gerner (PhilHumTech;
CFCUL) (2019/11/26 - 2019/11/26)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2019/03/26 - 2019/03/28 | "From Automata to Robotics" This interdisciplinary meeting aims to build historical knowledge and philosophical reflection
on automata, robots, androids, including avatars, cyborgs, and the reflection of the human technological condition based on
the contribution of various experts from Arts and the Humanities to Science and Technology. Furthermore, it aims to establish
bridges between the past, the present and the future.
https://automata2robotics.ciuhct.org/ (2019/03/26 - 2019/03/28)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2019/03/26 - 2019/03/26 | Music Diagram, Motive, social resonance, and music-enriched cognitive enhancement (=Workshop series Philosophy, Science and
Human Technology of Music, Sound, Noise, Resonance, I) (2019/03/26 - 2019/03/26)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2018/12/06 - 2018/12/06 | Philosophy of Technology and societal aspects of Quantum Internet
06.12.2018 11h às 13h, no CFCUL, sala 4.3.28, with the President elect of the Society of Philosophy and Technology,
Prof. Dr. Pieter Vermaas, Delft University of Technology (NL) and new colaborator of the CFCUL. (Philosophy of Technology
on societal aspects of Quantum Internet).
https://www.tudelft.nl/en/tpm/about-the-faculty/departments/values-technology-and-innovation/people/associate-professors/dr-pe-pieter-vermaas/
(2018/12/06 - 2018/12/06)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2018/11/29 - 2018/12/01 | "Gestures and Artefacts: Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology" Conference: The conference intends to take
a diachronic perspective on the relationship between gestures and technical objects. https://artes.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/sites/artesGS/Veranstaltungen/E9-Conference-Gestures_and_Artefacts.pdf
(2018/11/29 - 2018/12/01)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Germany Universität zu Köln, Germany Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09 | Avatar-Encounters: Face-to-Avatar-Face, body-to-Avatar-Body (and VR),Organisation of workshop/Think Tank with Prof. Thomas
Craig, Kings College London on
organized by Dr. Alexander Gerner (CFCUL) Dr. João Ribeiro (CFCUL)
9.11.2018, Faculty of Science, Room: 4.2.07, Prof. Dr. Thomas Craig, director of the AVATAR Project
(2018/11/09 - 2018/11/09)
Other (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2017/12/13 - 2017/12/14 | Human Enhancement and Evolution. Scientific, Technological, Policy & ELS Considerations Conference
http://human-enhancement-and-evolution.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/
Day 1: Evolution and the Sciences and Technologies of Human Enhancement
Day 2:Policy & ELSA of Genome Editing and Human Enhancement (2017/12/13 - 2017/12/14)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2017/11/24 - 2017/11/24 | #01_ Technologies of Alterity
Cologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LABCologne/Lisbon Philosophy of Technology LAB 2017 (24.11.2017) 9h30-18h
Anfiteatro da FCiências.ID, Building C1, 3rd floor
Faculdade das Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande
Organized by:
Dr. Alexander Gerner, Philosophy of Human Technology, CFCUL
Prof. Thiemo Breyer, a.r.t.e.s, University of Cologne
Dr. Johannes Schick, a.r.t.e.s, University of Cologne
23.11.2017 Lisboa
(2017/07/01 - 2017/11/26)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal a.r.t.e.s. Universität zu Köln, Germany |
| 2017/10/03 - 2017/10/05 | "Face-Mask-Avatar-Embodiment"
Think Tank Meeting "Would the encounter with your Avatar be about the similarities with you, or the differences, would it
seem like an encounter with a ghost, or only an encounter with a mere thing, an uncanny technical object?"
3.-5.10.2017
organized by CFCUL; ith Zurich (zdhk); PhilhumTech (CFCUL); EPI Clinic Legg, Switzerland
Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal
(2017/10/03 - 2017/10/05)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland |
| 2017/01/30 - 2017/01/31 | Philosophy of technology LAB #01 2017 Dieter Mersch
Lab 1 Thinking with Dieter Mersch´s >>Ordo ab chao- Order from Noise<< 30/01/2017 FCUL/Ed.1/Anfiteatro da Fundação da Faculdade
das Ciências 14h30-17h30h
LAB 2 Participatory Networks- and the Decline of the Social
(2017/01/30 - 2017/01/31)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2016/12/14 - 2016/12/16 | http://lisbonicpos.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt 14-16 December, 2016 | Lisbon, Portugal
The Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) organized the Third Lisbon International Conference
on Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues. The Conference took place in Lisbon between the 14th and the 16th of December
2016.
(2016/01/01 - 2017/03/20)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2019/09/16 - 2019/09/18 | Ethical, Political and Societal challenges of Big Data Teacher at School of Complex Systems and Big Data: Ethical Implications
for Self-Organized Cognition
CLE – UNICAMP
September 16 – 18, 2019
Other
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School of Complex Systems and Big Data: Ethical Implications for Self-Organized Cognition
Universidade Estadual de Campinas Centro de Lógica Epistemologia e História da Ciência, Brazil
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| 2018/12/13 - 2018/12/16 | In the Uncanny Valley Part 2: Encounters in Arts, Media, Continental Philosophy. An International Workshop in Two Parts Moderation
of the Final Debate 15.12.2018 Conference 15:00-16:30 Toni-Areal, Aktionsraum, Ebene 5, Pfingstweidstrasse 96, Zürich
Conference
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In the Uncanny Valley Part 2: Encounters in Arts, Media, Continental Philosophy. An International Workshop in Two Parts
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland
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| 2018/06/12 - 2018/06/12 | Wellbeing science, post-normal science and resonance with others Meeting Complex Systems Digital Campus Meeting on Mutual
Wellbeing Science, ISCTE-IUL, Auditório 0NE01 - Paquete de Oliveira, Floor 0, Edifício Sedas Nunes https://www.iscte-iul.pt/event/1691/complex-systems-digital-campus-meeting-on-mutual-wellbeing-science
Mutual Wellbeing Science concerns the design of ecosystems for mutual benefit of communities, both at the individual and collective
levels. Harry Antony, Helder Coelho, Jeff Johnson, Jorge Correia Jesuíno, Jorge Louçã among others
Meeting
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complex-systems-digital-campus-meeting-on-mutual-wellbeing-science
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector, France |
| 2018/05/30 - 2018/05/30 | Ludification in Theatre. New Utopias of the Theatrical
Open Discussion moderated by Alexander Gerner
30.05.2018
16-16h45
ZhdK Zürich, Switzerland
Kino Toni Areal 3.GO2
Conference
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Ludification in Theatre. New Utopias of the Theatrical
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Switzerland
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| 2017/12/12 - 2017/12/13 | Introduction of the Conference “Human Enhancement and Evolution” Anfiteatro da FCiências.ID, Building C1, 3rd floor Faculdade
das Ciências Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande Organized by: Dr. Alexander Gerner, Philosophy of Human Technology, Mara
Almeida(CFCUL), João Pinheiro(CFCUL)
Conference
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Human Enhancement and Evolution
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
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| 2017/09/17 - 2017/09/22 | Network participation
UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING, DATA STORAGE, AND HUMAN AUTONOMOUS ACTION: ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS INVESTIGATED FROM THE COMPLEX SYSTEMS
PERSPECTIVE// CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2017 Cancún Mexico - September 17 – 22 SATELLITE: Mariana Claudia Broens , Laura
Hernandez, João Kogler, Renata Silva, Edna Alves de Souza, Alexander Gerner, José Artur Quilici Gonzalez, Ítala Loffredo D’Ottaviano,
Marcos Antonio Alves, Vinicius Romanini. http://ccs17.unam.mx/satellites
Meeting
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CONFERENCE ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS 2017 Cancún Mexico - September 17 – 22 SATELLITE
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022/04/08 | Desenhando a música: análise da composição e da escuta a partir do conceito peirceano de diagrama
Supervisor
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Vinicius Jonas de Aguiar (PhD)
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2019/12/05 | "Como figurar a incomunicabilidade da família contemporânea com uma criança pré-adolescente? /"How can the incommunicability
of the contemporary family with a pre-adolescent child be represented?" https://repositorio.ipl.pt/handle/10400.21/9443 This
thesis aims to be a reflection on cinema, analyzing the figuration that it produces about the incommunicability in the modern
and contemporary society proposed as well to present a cinematographic project in the scope of this reflection.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Afonso Cabrita de Castro Gonçalves (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
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| 2019/05/16 | "Hacking e práticas de liberdade: conspirando com hackers outros mundos." 2019. 177F. Tese (Doutorado em Psicologia Social
e Institucional) – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 2019. "Hacking and practices of freedom: conspiring
with hackers in other worlds. 2019. 177F. Thesis (Doctorate in Social and Institutional Psychology)
(Thesis) Arguer
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WALTER, Bruno Eduardo Procopiuk (PhD)
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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| 2019/02/05 | "Elephant e o Avatar: O espectador Encarnando o Adolescente/ Elephant and the Avatar: The Spectator Incarnating the Teenager"
Avatar as cinematic hero in distinction between video game and cinematic object and in relation to the contemplative aspect
of cinema and a type of video game, it elaborates on the importance of the hero in classical cinematic culture and the change
of this cultural role of the hero today, and especially on the flow of the experience in which characters are played as avatar
https://repositorio.ipl.pt/handle/10400.21/9443
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Gonçalo Miguel Peres Castelo Mansinho Soares (Master)
Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Portugal
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| 2018/10/12 | Corpo, Identidade e Técnica: etnografando o jeito e o gesto em um gina´sio de Lisboa " Body, Identity and Technique: ethnography
of manner and gesture in a Lisbon gymnasium" https://run.unl.pt/handle/10362/51777
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Caio Rotta Bradbury Novaes, (PhD)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/01/01 - 2024/05/17 | II Encontro Internacional de Filosofia Ecológica: Informação, Criatividade e Meio Ambiente – EIFE II | UNESP, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências, Câmpus de Marília - Marília - São Paulo - Brasil |
| 2019/01/01 - 2019/09/21 | EBICC-XII INTERNATIONAL BRAZILIAN MEETING ON COGNITIVE SCIENCE Big Data: Ethical, epistemological and semiotical implications to the self-organized cognition/action | Brazilian Cognitive Science Society (SBCC, http://www.sbcc.org.br/), UNICAMP: https://ebicc2019.wordpress.com/ |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2020/01/09 - 2020/02/08 | Curator of the exposition of Sérgio Costa Sulcos: Manual de sobrevivência l Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (Exposição individual l Solo show) Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisboa 09.01 - 08.02.2020 online: 10.13140/RG.2.2.11204.17280/1 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340778670_Hacking_into_Strata_Texto_da_Exposicao_Sulcos_-Manual_de_Sobrevivencia_de_Sergio_Costa#fullTextFileContent | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal |
| 2012/07/25 - 2012/10/26 | Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona for the exhibition "Cartografías contemporáneas. Dibujar el pensamiento" invite of Helena Tatay (curator) 1/2 of May 2012 (consultant talk projected as part of the exhibition from 25.7-26.10.2012 | CaixaForum Barcelona, Spain |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022/03/10 - 2022/03/24 | História e Filosofia da Tecnologia (85138) S2 (2022) Curso Livre em Competências Transversais Curso Livre em MINOR - Alunos Externos Licenciatura Bolonha em Física Licenciatura Bolonha em Matemática Licenciatura Bolonha em Matemática Aplicada Licenciatura Bolonha em Biologia | Historia e Filosofia d Tecnologia (Licenciatura) | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017/07/10 - 2017/07/15 | Postdoctoral Fellowship, member of the Selection Commitee for the Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, under the Centre for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL)", "UID/FIL/00678/2013", with the financial support of FCT/MEC through national funds and when applicable co-financed by FEDER, under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement, under the following conditions: 1. scientific area: Philosophy of Science and Technology, Technology of the Human | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa |
| 2016/01/02 - 2016/02/02 | Selection Panel Participation of a research scholarship: Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica; Research Grant under the project "The Genetics Clinic of the Future (GCOF)" funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 Mobilisation and mutual learning action plan. Call for applications for a Research Fellowship under the project "The Genetics Clinic of the Future (GCOF)" funded by the European Commission under Horizon 2020 advertisement reference 002/BI/2016 | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal | Horizon 2020 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/05/01 - 2024/01/11 | semeiosis transdisciplinary journal of semiotics (2178-5368) | USP, Department of Communication and Arts (CCA) of the School of Communications and Arts (Escola de Comunicações e Artes – ECA) |
Distinctions
Award
| 1998 | City of Munich Dance and Theater Award for "zap through my life"
Landeshauptstadt München Kulturreferat, Germany
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| 1997 | Prémio "Dias de Autores" do Teatro Nacional de Hanover (Alemanha) para a peça de teatro "Trance" |
Other distinction
| 2023 | 1st position in international Call for Tenure track Professorship/Researcher at FilmEU
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
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| 2011 | Grant for the 2011 Mellon Summerschool “Cognitive- (Neuro-) Sciences and the Humanities”, Stanford University, USA, CASBS (Center of Advanced Studies in Behavioural Sciences) |