| phone: | (+351) 218 417 100 |
| email: | luis.t.magalhaes@tecnico.ulisboa.pt |
| Positions | Professor of Mathematics ("Professor Catedrático") at IST – Instituto Superior Técnico of University of Lisbon (formerly of Technical University of Lisbon) (1993-), "Jubilado" since 1.JAN.2022; |
| Associate Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences (2019-), Corresponding Member (1995-2019); | |
| Elected Honorary Member of the Portuguese Mathematics Society (SPM) (2022-). | |
| Former Main Positions | President of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC),
the Portuguese governmental agency with the mission of coordinating the national Information Society and ICT policy (Jul 2005-Jan 2012) President of the Science and Technology Foundation (FCT), the Portuguese Research Council and National Research Funding Organization (1997-2002) President of the General Council of University of Algarve (May 2013-Jun 2017) |
| Chair of the National Coordination Team of the 6th Portuguese Research Units International Assessment (2017-19) | |
| Member of the Strategy Council of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST (2016-20) | |
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Member of the Evaluation Panel of the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of IST,
with Francis-Luc Perret (Chair, EPFL, Switzerland) and Carlos Mota Soares (Dep. of Mechanical Engineering, IST) (2016) | |
| European co-Chair of the EU-Africa 8th Partnership - Science, Information Society, Space, and Chair of the European Expert Group of the EU-Africa 8th Partnership (2011, 2012) | |
| President of the Council of the INL - International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, established by Treaty between Portugal and Spain (2008-12), and President of the General Assembly of the INL Installation Commission (2007-11) | |
| Chair of the OECD Working Party on Measurement and Analysis of the Digital Economy (MADE) (formerly Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society (WPIIS)) (Jan 2011-Dec 2016); | |
| Vice-Chair of the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy (CDEP) (formerly Committee on Information, Computer and Communication Policy (ICCP)) (2009, 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020), Member of its Extended Bureau (2009-20), and Member of the Committee (2005-2021) | |
| Member Elected by the CDEP of the Steering Group of the OECD Horizontal Project Going Digital! (2017-2020), which was the biggest OECD Horizontal Project ever involving almost all OECD Committees, and Acting Chair of the majority of the Steering Group Meetings at the request of the Chair of the Steering Group and of CDEP, Wonki Min, who at the time was Vice-Minister of the Ministry of Science and ICT of the Republic of Korea, and at his request represented him as CDEP Chair in three of the annual meetings with the OECD Secretary General, Angel Gurria, for preparation of the annual OECD Ministerial Committee, which in those years had agendas with emphasis in aspects of the Digital Transformation of Society | Chair of the European Union Horizon 2020 Advisory Board on Research Infrastructures Including e-Infrastructures (Feb 2016-Jul 2018), Acting Chair (Feb 2015-Feb 2016) and Vice-Chair (Oct 2013-Feb 2016) |
| Member of the Governing Boards of the international partnership programs MIT – Portugal (2006-11), Carnegie Mellon University – Portugal (2006-11), University of Texas at Austin – Portugal (2007-11), Harvard Medical School – Portugal (2009-11), and of the Steering Committee of the Fraunhofer – Portugal Program (2007-12) | |
| Member of the General Council of the Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN), the Portuguese National Research and Education Network organization (2009-12) | |
| Member of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) (2009-12) | |
| Member of the UN MAG - Multistakeholder Advisory Group for the UN IGF - Internet Governance Forum, appointed by the UN Secretary General (Sep-Dec 2007) | |
| Head of Portugal Delegation to the UN IGF - Internet Governance Forum (2007-11) | |
| Member of the Strategy Panel on ICANN's Role in the Internet Governance Ecosystem, chaired by Vint Cerf (2013-2014) | |
| Head of Portugal Delegation to the GAC - Governmental Advisory Committee of the ICANN, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (2009-2012) | |
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Member of the IST Scientific Council as elected representative of the Mathematics Department faculty (2002-05) In this period, proponent of Integrated Master Degrees in Engineering in the context of the Bologna Reform at IST, supported immediately by the Professor Maranha das Neves, at the time Chair of the Civil Engineering Department of IST, and former Bastonário da Ordem dos Engenheiros (the Portuguese Public Administration entity with functions of Engineers Association and competencies established by national legislation regarding the engineering profession) and for State Secretary of Public Works, when the discussion at IST and the other engineering university schools was just the sterile discussion if they shoud be of 3+2 or 4+1 year cycles (!!!!) and nobody had even imagined Integrated Master Degrees of Engineering. This proposal was adopted almost with unanimity of the Scientific Council members. All other Portuguese engineering university schools followed IST on this. Unfortunately, due to a grossly ill-informed ministerial decision in 2020 the Integrated Master Degrees in Engineering were forbidden, with severe negative consequences against the national interest and, besides other negative aspects, leading to extend by 1 extra year the average time students take to conclude 5-year studies in engineering (necessary for professional degrees) and to enter the profession, highly damaging for the students and the Portuguese economy. | |
| Member of the Governing Council of the ESF - European Science Foundation (2000-02) | |
| Manager of the Operational Program on Science Technology and Innovation (POCTI) of Portugal Community Support Framework III (QCA III) (2000-02) | |
| Head of Portugal Delegation for Negotiation with the European Commission of the Operational Programs "Science Technology and Innovation" and "Information Society" of the CSP III which obtained a global funding of 1.8 billion Euros (1999-2000) | |
| Manager of the Operational Program Praxis XXI Program, for Support of the Knowledge and Innovation Basis of the Portugal II Community Support Framework QCA II (1999-02) | |
| Member of the Portugal EXPO 2000 Hannover General Commissariat (1998-2000) | |
| National Coordinator of the 1st Portuguese Research Units International Assessment (1996-97) | |
| Chair of the Department of Mathematics of IST (1993-97) | |
| Full Professor ("Professor Catedrático") at IST Mathematics Department (1993-) | |
| Member of the Coordination Committee of Exact and Natural Sciences of the National Board of Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT) (1992-94) | |
| Associate Professor with "Agregação" at IST Mathematics Department (1992-93) | |
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Founder and Coordinator of the Center of Mathematical Analysis, Dynamical Systems and Applications to Engineering in 1990
and proposer in 1995 of renaming it Center for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems (CAMSDSG) (1990-97) This is the only R&D Unit of Mathematics always classified Excellent in the Portuguese Research Units International Assessments promoted by the FCT in 1996, 1999, 2002, 2007, 2013, 2017 (a few other R&D Units of Mathematics have been classified Excellent in at least one of the evaluations but none other in all of them) | |
| Co-Founder with João Sentieiro of the ISR -Institute for Systems and Robotics and Deputy Director of its Lisbon branch (1991-97) | |
| Coordinator of the Council of Secretaries of the Centers of the Interdisciplinary Complex I of the National Institute of Scientific Research (INIC) at IST (1991-93) | |
| Secretary of Center for Signal Analysis and Processing (CAPS) of the INIC (1991-93) | |
| Founder and Head of Research Line of CAPS (1988-93) | |
| Coordinator of the IST post-graduate program in Mathematics - Master in Applied Mathematics (1990-93) | |
| Coordinator of the Mathematics Session of the Scientific and Technological Research National Days of JNICT (1987) | |
| Member of the IST Scientific Council (1990-1997), in 1990-93 as elected representative of the Mathematics Department faculty and in 1993-97 as Chair of the Mathematics Department | |
| Associate Professor at IST Mathematics Department (1987-92) | |
| Secretary of the IST Scientific Council (1985-88) | |
| Senior Fellow of IMA - Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications at U. of Minnesota (1985). | |
| 1st Coordinator of the IST 5 years undergraduate program in Mathematics - Applied Mathematics and Computing (1986-90), and Coordinator of its design (1984-85) | |
| Founder and Head of Research Line of Center for Mathematics and Fundamental Applications (CMAF) of INIC (1984-88) | |
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Coordinator of the Mathematical Analysis and Algebra Section of the Department of Mathematics of IST (1983-93), in charge of managing the hiring of teaching staff, their assignments to teaching service and opportunities of career development. In spite of the name after the basic service courses for engineering degrees of IST, this was the Section where the major areas of Mathematics could be developed, besides Mathematical Analysis, Geometry, Algebra, Topology, etc. (this Section was 3/4 of the Mathematics Department and the largest Section in all areas of IST. It duplicated from 45 members, with only 1 Full Professor (Jaime Campos Ferreira) and 1 PhD (Luis Magalhães), to 90 members, with 3 Full Professors and 26 PhDs. This was a period of radical change driving the Section from only teaching service to teaching and research: in 1993 only 15 of the 45 initial members remained in the Section; along 1983-93 the Section had contracts with 168 persons; the doubling of teaching staff involved hiring 123 persons and the exit of 78 persons in that decade; 48 persons entered and left in that period. Except one (forced to resign by teaching service irregularities), the exits of teaching staff were on their own initiative in response to higher quality of service requirements and accountability). During the period were opened opportunities and provided incentives for Section members to study for PhD abroad in top universities. This led the Section to count in 2012 with 77 members, all with PhDs (35 obtained in USA, 6 in UK, 22 in Portugal and 8 in other European countries) | |
| Research Fellow of the IMA at U. of Minnesota (1982-83) | |
| Assistant Professor ("Professor Auxiliar" at IST Mathematics Department (1983-87) | |
| With the then Chair of the IST Mathematics Department, António Ferreira dos Santos, who travelled to Brown U. for the purpose, designer of the IST post-graduate program in Mathematics - Master in Applied Mathematics (following 5 years of university studies) (1981-82) | |
| Teaching Fellow (1981-82), Research Assistant (1980-81), Teaching Assistant (1979-80) and Research Assistant (Spring semester 1978-79), at the Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University | |
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Member of the Executive Committee of the IST "Mathematics Department" (an informal designation at the time,
since the Departments were formally created only in 1980) of IST (1976-78), and proponent with decisive influence of the a public oral presentation of a topic chosen by the candidates from a given list for the admission Undergraduate Teaching Assistants in 1976, leading to hire João Palhoto Matos and three students who later became professors at the Electrical Engineering Department of IST. | |
| Teaching Assistant ("Assistente Eventual" (1976-77), "Assistente" (1977-783)) at IST Mathematics Department | |
| Member of the Executive Committee of the IGC created following the organizational changes of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation triggered by the 1974 "April 25 Revolution" in Portugal, elected by the IGC Research Associates (1974-78) | |
| Undergraduate Teaching Assistant ("Monitor") at IST Mathematics Department (1972-76) | |
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Research Associate at the Laboratory of Physiology of the Gulbenkian Institute of Science (IGC) (1972-78) having initiated as collaborator of this Laboratory in 1969 | |
| Books | Magalhães, Luis T., Quasiconformal Mappings in the Plane and Complex Dynamics, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2025 |
| Magalhães, Luis T., Complex Analysis and Dynamics in One Variable with Applications, Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2025 | |
| Hale, Jack K., Magalhães, Luis T., Oliva, Waldyr M., Dynamics in Infinite Dimensions , Springer-Verlag, New York, 2002 | |
| (97 non-self citations recorded in the AMS MathSciNet MR at 01.JUN.2026) | |
| Equadiff95 - International Conference on Differential Equations, eds. Magalhães, L., Rocha, C., Sanchez, L., World Scientific, Singapore, 1988 | |
| Magalhães, Luis T., Integrais em Variedades e Aplicaçðes, 2a edição, Texto Editora, 1999 | |
| Magalhães, Luis T., Integrais Múltiplos, 3a edição, Texto Editora, 1998 | |
| Magalhães, Luis T., Älgebra Linear como Introdução a Matemática Aplicada, 8a edição, Texto Editora, 1998 | |
| Hale, Jack K., Magalhães, Luis T., Oliva, Waldyr M., An Introduction to Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems - Geometric Theory, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1984 | |
| (34 non-self citations recorded in the AMS MathSciNet MR at 01.JUN.2026) | |
| Education | Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (advisor: Jack Hale), 1982, Brown University |
| M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, 1980, Brown University | |
| "Licenciado" in Electrical Engineering - Electronics and Telecommunications (5 year university degree), 1975, IST - Instituto Superior Técnico | |
| Research Interests | Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations, Bifurcation Theory, Functional Differential Equations |
| Students | Gustavo Granja, Undergraduate Thesis, 1993 (PhD at MIT, 1999 with Jerome Hopkins; presently Assistant Professor at IST) |
| Leonor Godinho, Undergraduate Thesis, 1993 (PhD at SUNNY-Stony Brook, 1999 with Dusa McDuff; presently Associate Professor after being Assistant Professor at IST) | |
| Luis Barreira, Undergraduate Thesis (co-advised with Carlos Rocha), 1991 (PhD at Penn. State, 1996 with Yakov Pesin; presently Full Professor after being Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at IST; the 2nd Most cited (non-self citations) Portuguese mathematician working in Portugal in the Web of Science (Clarivate) Core Collection (by 1379 articles), at 01.JUN.2026) | |
| Teresa Faria, Doctoral Thesis, 1992 (presently Full Professor after being Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at Faculty of Science of U. of Lisbon; the Most cited (non-self citations) Portuguese mathematician working in Portugal in the Web of Science (Clarivate) Core Collection (by 1520 articles), at 01.JUN.2026)) | |
| Fernando Pestana da Costa, Master Thesis, 1989 (PhD at Heriot-Watt U., 1993 with Jack Carr; presently Full Professor after being Associate Professor at Portugal Open U., and Assistant Professor at IST) | |
| Esmeralda Sousa Dias, Master Thesis, 1989 (PhD at Warwick U., 1995 with Mark Roberts and Ian Stewart; retired Assistant Professor at IST) | |
| João Teixeira Pinto, Master Thesis, 1989 (PhD at Georgia Tech., 1995 with Jack Hale; presently Assistant Professor at IST) | |
| Ana Cannas da Silva, Undergraduate Thesis, 1989 (PhD at MIT, 1996 with Victor Guillemin; presently Adjunct Professor and Senior Scientist at ETH Zurich, after Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Princeton U. (2006-12), Associate Professor (2001-12) and Assistant Professor (1997-2001) at IST, and Assistant Professor at U. California-Berkeley (1996-98) | |
| Miguel Abreu, Undergraduate Thesis (co-advised with António Pascoal), 1989 (PhD Stanford U., 1996 with Yakov Eliashberg; presently Full Professor after being Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at IST) | |
| Rui Loja Fernandes, Undergraduate Thesis, 1988 (PhD at U. of Minnesota, 1994 with Peter Olver; presently Lois M. Lackner Professor of Mathematics at U. Illinois Urbana-Champaign after being Full Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at IST) | |
| Acilina Azenha, Master Thesis, 1987 (PhD at U. Évora, 2010 with Clara Grácio; retired Adjunct Professor at ISEL-Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa) | |
| Teresa Faria, Master Thesis, 1986 (PhD at IST, 1992 with Luis Magalhães; presently Full Professor after being Associate Professor and Assistant Professor at Faculty of Science of U. of Lisbon) | |
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