Research Directors
Research Directors are responsible for the developing of areas of research and knowledge, building notoriety and disseminate the work performed at LINI, nationally and internationally, in order to reach the different academic and research audiences. Directors of research also perform scientific research, coordinate other researchers, and focus on strategy, development, and new initiatives, providing support for the LINI development and fundraising programmes.
Gustavo Cardoso is an associate researcher at CIES-ISCTE-IUL and Professor of Technology and Society at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute. He also works with the Department of Communications and Performance Studies of the University of Milan and with the Portuguese Catholic University. His international cooperation in European research networks brought him to work with IN3 (Internet Interdisciplinary Institute) in Barcelona, WIP (World Internet Project) at USC Annenberg, COST A20 "The Impact of the Internet in Mass Media" and COST 298 "Broadband Society". Between 1996 and 2006 he was adviser on Information Society and telecommunications policies to the Presidency of the Portuguese Republic and In 2008 was chosen by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader. He is co-editor, with Manuel Castells, of the book Network Society: from Knowledge to Policy and Associate Editor at the peer-reviewed journals IJOC at USC Annenberg and IC&S at Routledge.
He is a member of the evaluation panels of the European Research Council (ERC) and of the ESF (European Science Foundation).
Email: gustavo.cardoso@lini-research.org
Vítor Sequeira Roldão is Dean of Department of Management of the ISCTE Business School at the ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute and researcher at the Management Research Centre (MRC). His main areas of research are innovation in technologies, production and operations management. He is author and co-author of 11 books in management topics and published more than 20 scientific articles. He is a member of the COST research network Science and Technology Research In a Knowledge-based Economy (STRIKE) whose objective is to improve our understanding of the process of scientific and technological development and of the transfer of scientific and technological developments to markets and into economic development.
Email: vitor.roldao@lini-research.org
Rita Espanha is a researcher at CIES-ISCTE-IUL developing
research in areas such as Young People and ICT, e-health and
e-democracy. She is a Professor at ISLA Lisboa and at the Master on
Communication, Culture and Information Technologies at ISCTE- Lisbon
University Institute. She is member of the Executive Commission of
OberCom - Media Observatory and participates in international research
networks (WIP - World Internet Project at USC Annenberg, COST A20 - The
Impact of the Internet in Mass Media and COST 298 - Broadband Society).
Her main areas of research focus on developing knowledge in the ICT use
and social appropriation in the fields of Health and Media. She is
Editor of the international peer-review journal Observatorio (OBS*).
Email: rita.espanha@lini-research.org
Paulo Trezentos is author and co-author of 4 books in Open Source and ICT topics and published near one hundred of dissemination and scientific articles. Senior researcher at ADETTI, in the fields of Operating Systems and Open Source Platforms. Lecturer at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute where he lectures "Operating Systems" and pos-graduated courses. He is reviewer of projects for Agência de Inovação since 2004.
In 2000 has been granted the Prémio Milénio 2000 Expresso, a 50.000 euros nation-wide prize, for the Linux Caixa Mágica. He is the technical responsible for Caixa Mágica (the Portuguese Linux distribution, http://www.caixamagica.pt), heads the Caixa Mágica Team in EDOS, a 3.3 M Euros strep project for IST 6FP, and leads Linius - the Portuguese Ministry of Justice effort to deploy Linux in desktops.
Email: paulo.trezentos@lini-research.org
Researchers and PhD Students
The LINI welcomes research members with research expertise spanning a wide range of interrelated social, technical, economic, political, legal, industrial and ethical issues of the Internet and Networks. The affiliation with LINI can be obtained through the submission of a request to lini@lini-research.org that should include the research centre where you wish to develop research (CIES, MRC, ADDETI or OberCom) and a short description of the research to be developed.
Funding opportunities can be found at COST networks (for COST networks member institutions), European Science Foundation (ESF); ERC Starting Independent Grants, CYTED Networks, Marie Curie Fellowships, Bilateral research agreements between Portugal, Brazil, Italy, Poland, United Kingdom and other countries (Algeria, Bulgaria, China, Korea, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Greece, India, Ireland, Luxemburg, Mexico, Romania and Russia), FCT grants and scholarships and other European and international research funding programmes.
Senior Researchers:
Sandro Mendonça is a lecturer at the Department of Economy, ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute. He is a researcher at Dinâmia, CISEP and UECE. He studied economics in ISEG, Technical University of Lisbon, and in Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Sandro holds a masters degree in Science & Technology Policy from SPRU, University of Sussex. He has taught at Nova University of Lisbon, ISEG and ISPA. In his consultancy activities he has interacted with public and private entities, Portuguese and foreign, in areas such as social policy, innovation policy and strategic management. He has published his work in a number of leading international scholarly journals in the fields of innovation and foresight.
Email: smfm@iscte.pt
Current Phd Students affiliated to LINI:
Pedro Pereira Neto is a researcher at CIES-ISCTE-IUL and at OberCom developing research in areas such as Collective Action, Social Movements, and New Media (the field in which he is developing his PhD). He participates in international research networks (WIP - World Internet Project at USC Annenberg, COST A20 - The Impact of the Internet in Mass Media, and COST A14 - Governance and Democracy in the Information Age). He is also an Advisory Editor of the international peer-review journal Observatorio (OBS*).
Email: pedro.neto@obercom.pt
Tiago Lapa is a researcher at CIES-ISCTE-IUL. He has carried out research work using European level survey data such as the European Social Survey, the Eurobarometer and the European Quality of Life Survey. Currently he is a PhD student at Cambridge University, UK.
Email: tiago.lapa@iscte.pt
Alcimar Queiroz is a researcher for Research Group on Public Policies for Access to Information (GPOPAI) at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. Alcimar based his Master thesis in his participation as USP's representative in the World Summit of Information Society and is currently finishing his PhD dissertation on Sociology of Education at USP.
Email: asqz@usp.br
Pedro Jacobetty is a researcher at CIES-ISCTE-IUL, where he has collaborated in studies on higher education, radio news' content analysis and youth's uses of the internet. Recently he has been working on P2P networks and European cinema and also on e-science. He is currently a Master student at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute.
Email: pedro.jacobetty@iscte.pt
Visitors
Visitors at the LINI are Visiting Fellows (academics who visit us for sabbatical-related research) or Visiting Associates (policy-makers, industry leaders or civil society advocates who may not necessarily be engaged in exclusively academic work). Visitors are associated with the LINI Research Programme for a period of 3 to 12 months. Working facilities (office, wi-fi and telecom connections, library access and administrative support) are provided in one of the affiliated research centres of the LINI network (CIES, MRC, ADETTI or OberCom).
Current Visiting Fellows for 2008-2009 at LINI:
Rosa-Linda Fregoso, whose research interests are in theories of representation, human rights, transnational feminism, cultural studies and media was Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She has also held faculty appointments at UC Davis, where she was director of Women and Gender Studies, and at UC Santa Barbara in the departments of Communications and Chicano Studies. At USC, Fregoso holds appointments in the School of Cinematic Arts and the department of American Studies and Ethnicity.
Email: rfregoso@usc.edu
Herman S. Gray is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness (1995) and Producing Jazz: Theresa Records, Case Study of Jazz Independent (1988). Herman Gray is concerned with logic of the digital age and the way it maps onto logic of differentiations. What are the ways that African American cultural workers have engaged with physicality and digitality.
Email: herman@ucsc.edu
Research Associates
Research Associates are former LINI researchers with whom we expect to maintain a formal research contact, or researchers with whom we collaborate on research. Positions will be available for one year (renewable). Nominations are approved by the Academic Committee (constituted by the LINI Research Directors members).
Current Research Associates affiliated to LINI:
Jorge Alberto Machado is a lecturer of Public Policy at the School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo (USP) Brazil. He is one of the coordinators of the Research Group on Public Policy of Access to Information (GPOPAI) at USP.
Email: machado@usp.br
Francisco Lupiáñez- Villanueva is a lecturer at Open University of Catalonia (UOC) in Barcelona, School of Information and Communication Science, teaching and coordinating issues related to the Network Society: Information Policies, Information Society, Media and Information Society. His current field of research is focused around Health and ICT's.
Email: flupianez@uoc.edu
Carlos Cunha, is Professor in the Political Science Department at Dowling College (Oakdale, NY) and Research Associate in CIES at Lisbon University Institute. He wrote The Portuguese Communist Party's Strategy for Power, 1921-1986 (Garland, 1992) and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on various aspects of Portuguese politics, specializing on the use of Information Communication Technologies in the political parties.
Email: cunhac@dowling.edu
