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Nuno Crato is Associated Professor on Mathematics and Statistics
            at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, in Lisbon.
            He is pro-rector for the Scientific Culture at the Universidade
            Técnica de Lisboa. He was graduated in Economics by the
            ISEG. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in the United
            States and worked there for various years as researcher and university
            teacher. His work as researcher is about stochastic processes
            and time series with diverse applications, especially on climate
            changes and financial floating systems. He is scientific coordinator
            of the FCT Centre Cemapre and member of various international
            scientific societies, namely the American Statistical Association
            and the International Institute of Forecasters. He was President
            of the International Symposium on Forecasting in 2000. His papers
            have been regularly published in several international magazines,
            like the Statistical Papers, the Journal of Econometrics, Economic
            Letters, International Journal of Forecasting and Journal of
            Forecasting. He is President of the Portuguese Society of Mathematics
            (SPM) and member of the board of the International Forum of the
            Portuguese Researchers (FIIP). In parallel to his academic work
            he is also devoted to the scientific divulgation. He collaborates
            in a regular basis with press, mainly at the Expresso newspaper
            where he has a space for scientific divulgation. He has also
            collaborated with several television programs, especially the
            4xCiência and the 2010. He has a daily radio program Three
            Minutes of Science at Europa Radio, in Portugal. He is co-author
            of Eclipses (Portuguese, Gradiva, 1999), author of Zodiac: Constellations
            and Myths (Portuguese, Gradiva, 2001), co-author of Venus' Transits
            (Portuguese, Gradiva, 2004), of the Golden Spiral (Portuguese,
            Gradiva, 2006), of Sun Dials (CTT, 2007) among other works of
            scientific divulgation. For his work on scientific divulgation
            he received, in 2003, the First Prize of the Public Awareness
            of Mathematics Competition, by the European Society of Mathematics.
            Recently, he has been also oriented to education. He published
            Eduquês em Discurso Directo: Uma Crítica da Pedagogia
            Romântica e Construtivista (Gradiva, 2006), he co-ordinated
            coordenou the Desastre no Ensino da Matemática: Como Recuperar
            o Tempo Perdido (SPM/Gradiva, 2006) and he organised the collection
            To Be a Teacher, with texts by Rômulo de Carvalho (Portuguese,
            Gradica, 2006).

            
Site: www.iseg.utl.pt/~ncrato
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