Filipe Duarte Santos

Permanent Member

Class
Sciences

Section
2nd Section | Physics

Election

08.10.1981 (Corresponding Member)
17.06.1999 (Permanent Member)

Areas of Interest

Nuclear Physics; Astrophysics; Geophysics; Climate Change and Sustainability

Hyperlinks
https://www.cienciavitae.pt/portal/en/B918-FBD8-4108

Profile

Filipe Duarte Santos is full professor at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (UL), having taught in the areas of Physics, Astrophysics, Environmental Sciences and Climate Change. He graduated in geophysical sciences from UL in 1963 and obtained his PhD in nuclear physics from the University of London in 1968. Visiting professor or researcher at universities in the USA (Wisconsin, North Carolina, Duke, Stanford and Harvard) and Europe (Surrey UK, Ludwig Maximilien Munich and Vrije Amsterdam). Honorary researcher at UL’s Institute of Social Sciences since 2023. President of the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development, by Resolution of the Council of Ministers Nº 42/2017 of 9-3, the mandate having been renewed twice. Director of the PhD Programme in Climate Change and Sustainable Development Policies (UL, UNL, East Anglia UK) from 2009 to 2024. Delegate of Portugal to the United Nations Commission for the Peaceful Use of Outer Space from 1999 to 2019, having been elected 2nd vice-president of the Commission in 2008-2009 and 1st vice-president in 2012-2013. Director of the Sustainable Development Area of the CYTED Programme (Ibero-American Science and Technology for Development Programme) in 2007-2011. Review Editor of the IPCC’s 5th Assessment Report published in 2015. Member of the Environment Panel of EASAC (European Academies Science Advisory Board). Member of the Independent Technical Observatory for Analysing, Monitoring and Evaluating wildfires, created by Law 56/2018 of 20 August. Published more than 150 scientific papers in SCI-indexed journals and several books, the latest being ‘Time, Progress, Growth and Technology. How Humans and the Earth are Responding’, Springer, 2021. He was awarded the rank of Grand Officer of the Order of Santiago de Espada by the President of the Republic on 29-9-2005. He was awarded the University of Lisbon Prize in 2009, the Green Project Awards 2017 Special Career Award for Sustainability, the Ciência Viva Media 2024 Prize, with Francisco Sena Santos, awarded to the Antena 1 – RTP podcast ‘A Escala do Clima’, and others. Current areas of research are climate change and sustainability science.