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I am a retired Associate Professor at the University of Lisbon. I graduated in Pure Mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon in 1973 and obtained my PhD in the area of differential equations with partial derivatives at the University of Sussex, England, in 1985. I also graduated in Romance Philology from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon in 1980.  I have published 23 articles in specialized journals and 18 papers at international conferences.  I have written 10 book chapters. I have edited, alone or in collaboration, 19 books, 16 of which are Proceedings of International Meetings. Since 1995, I have organized the series of international meetings “History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia”, the first in collaboration with Professors José Francisco Rodrigues, CMAF, Lisbon, and Jean Dhombres, EHESS, Paris, the following in collaboration with Catherine Jami, CNRS Paris: Arrábida, Portugal, 1995, Macau, 1998, Tokyo, 2005, Beijing, 2008, Hsinshu, Taiwan, 2014, and Seoul, 2021. I edited, alone or with Catherine Jami, the Proceedings of the first five Meetings, the last four by World Scientific, and I am editing, with Lim Jongtae, from the University of Seoul, the Seoul Proceedings.

I have been the national coordinator of the National Seminar on the History of Mathematics (SNHM) since it was founded in 1988. Until 2024, the SNHM had organized 37 national meetings. Together with the Brazilian Society for the History of Mathematics, since 1993 it has organized nine Luso-Brazilian Meetings, with the publication of Proceedings (except for the third Meeting). Since 2013, he has organized four Iberian Meetings on the History of Mathematics with the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society.

I was deputy director of the Science Museum in Lisbon between 2004 and 2011. From 2004 to 2012 I was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Commission for the History of Mathematics (ICHM). I have been a full member of the International Academy of the History of Science since 2019 and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon since 2023.