Maria da Graça Carvalho#
| Membership Number: | 4607 |
| Membership type: | HONORARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2017 |
| Main Country of Residence: | PORTUGAL |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gracacarvalho.eu/en |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2016/01 - today Member of Unit 01 Scientific Advice Mechanism, DG Research and Innovation, European Commission
- 2014/11 - 2015/12 Senior Adviser Cabinet Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, European Commission
- 2009 - 2014 Member of the European Parliament
- 2006 - 2009 Principal Adviser to the President of the European Commission
- 2006/05 - 2006/12 Acting Director General of BEPA (now EPSC)
- 2004 - 2005 Minister of Science, Innovation and Higher Education of the Portuguese XVI Constitutional Government
- 2003 - 2005 Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Portuguese XV Constitutional Government
- 2002 - 2003 Director General of GRICES Office for International Relations in Science and Higher Education
- Since 1992-today Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon
- 1987 - 1992 Associate Professor with Habilitation at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Lisbon
Fields of Scholarship
- Evidence based policy making
- Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer and combustion
- Energy and climate change policy
- Effects of air quality on health
- Science and innovation policy
- Formation of pollutants in combustion, NOx and particles
- Mitigation, Kyoto mechanisms, capacity building and technology transfer in the context of climate change
- Clean air technologies, air quality
- Sustainability assessment, energy planning, new and renewable energy technologies
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Recipient of the first Prize Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, a career prize to honour outstanding women scientists and engineers
- 2016 Recipient of the IUMRS International Union of Materials Research Societies Global Leadership and Service Award
- 2016 Member of the Council that assists the President of Republic in the attribution of the Orders of Civil Merit.
- 2012 Medal of Merit of the City of Beja
- 2011 Awarded the Prize for the best Member of the European Parliament in the area of Research and Innovation
- 2008 CIRCE Prize, CIRCE Foundation, Saragossa
- 2005 Honoured with the Portuguese Great Cross-Chancellery of the International Order of Merit of the Discoverer of Brazil
- 2002 Awarded the title of “Great Official of the Order of Public Instruction” by the President of Portugal
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science(WAAS)
- Fellow of the Portuguese Institute of Engineers
- Fellow of the Portuguese Academy of Science
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers of Spain
- Founder of the Portuguese Academy of Engineers (she is Member number 2)
