KEYNOTE LECTURES

keynote lectures

Learning from the Best

Bial

Brace yourselves and prepare to be inspired by four unique and inspiring personalities of the Medicine and Scientific World. Adding up to our three thematic modules, these lectures will broaden your horizons and unravel some of the most relevant topics of today.

You will also be able to learn from the best by witnessing a lifelong passion and dedication to science in our Nobel Lectures.

Nathan H. Lents, PhD

Professor of Biology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Author of the Book “Human Errors: a Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones do Broken Genes”

Nathan Lents is an American scientist, author and University Professor, known for his work in the fields of cell biology, genetics and forensic science. He also writes blogs, scientific articles, and books on the evolution of human biology and behavior, most notably his acclaimed book “Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes”.

Cara Ocobock, PhD

Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame University

Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame

Cara Ocobock is the Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory at Notre Dame University in Washington. Her research program integrates human biology and anthropology, with a focus on the interaction between anatomy, physiology, evolution, and the environment, exploring the physiological and behavioral mechanisms necessary to cope with and adapt to extreme climate and physical activity.

Furthermore, Cara Ocobock is part of the Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame and has published dozens of scientific articles, receiving several awards over the years for the exemplary work she has developed in this area.

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, PhD

Head of the Climate Change Unit at WHO Headquarters

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is the Head of the Climate Change and Health Unit at WHO Headquarters. He has worked on this cause for over 20 years, playing key roles in the first quantitative estimates of the global health impacts of climate change, World Health Assembly resolutions, WHO Global Conferences, and the expansion of WHO’s Climate Change and Health Support to over 30 low and middle income countries.

Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum is the author of over 100 scientific articles, reports and book chapters, lead author of three Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports, and the first health report for the UN Climate Negotiations.

Moderator

Rúben Oliveira, MSc

Biologist, Ecologist, and Science Communicator

Rúben Sousa de Oliveira is a biologist, ecologist, and science communicator. He has a Master’s Degree in Conservation Biology from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and a post-graduation in Ecology and Environmental Management. He is a member of cE3c‘s Communication Office, the National Board for the League of Nature Protection (LPN), the Portuguese Society of Ecology (SPECO), where he coordinates the Network for Communication and Dissemination of Ecology, and the Portuguese Society of Etology (SPE). He is co-founder of the Science Festivals Pint of Science Portugal and FIC.A, as well as co-author of “Um Pouco Por Toda a Parte: A Ecologia no Século XXI”.