Ana Moutinho

Biography

Ana C Moutinho (b. 1972) is a Portuguese researcher interested in science policy and research management.
Ana is an invited Assistant Professor in the Economics Department of ISEG (Lisbon School of Economics & Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal), where she teaches MSc courses in Science Policy and Science Communication.
From 2005-2015, Ana was a senior research manager at the university central services, answering directly to the Rectoral team. Initially trained as a lab researcher (back in the XXth century), Ana was a PhD student in Lisboa and Edinburgh from 1997-2000. While finishing her PhD in Cell Biology, Ana took her first career turn into science communication through a post-graduation in science journalism (CENJOR, 2000) and freelanced science stories during 2000-2002.
Whilst she quite loved the beat of news, Ana missed the joys of scholarly life and went back to academia as a postdoc in science policy by late 2002. In this period she was a visiting scholar at SPRU – Science Policy and Research Unit/University of Sussex for a few months. In 2005, Ana took her first appointment as a research manager and has been doing that ever since.