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António José Seguro considers the appointment of Gonçalo Castelo-Branco to be the “recognition of the scientific merit and academic excellence of the Portuguese researcher”.
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco, professor of Glial Cell Biology at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, considers the appointment a “recognition of the research” he has been developing.
A team of 12 Portuguese researchers is set to install a solar telescope in the Chilean desert that will operate remotely, allowing for high-resolution observations from Portugal. The POET (Paranal solar EXPRESSO Telescope), built partly in Lisbon, will be located at the Paranal Observatory in the Atacama Desert. Scientists aim to use the instrument to study the Sun and Earth-like exoplanets with unprecedented precision, with data collection expected to begin on April 8th.
Scientists expect the telescope to begin collecting its first data on April 8th.
Because he studies the neurobiology of social behaviour using zebrafish, Rui Oliveira has already been called the “psychologist of the horse mackerel”. “The social environment greatly affects our biological functioning.”
