Talk

How The Oae Came Into Being

Talk
During Opening Event including official opening of the OAE
2nd Shaw-IAU Workshop

About Teresa Lago

Full Professor of Astronomy, University of Porto (UP), Portugal (retired). Responsible for setting-up/coordinating the 1st Astronomy Degree in Portugal (1983), the European Inter-university Masters Degree (1994), the “European Astrophysics Doctoral Network” involving 33 European Universities (1986) and the Astronomy Doctoral Program (2004). Author of the “National Plan for the Development of Astronomy” (1987), founder of the Centre for de Astrophysics (1988) that she directed for 18 years, and of the Porto Planetarium (1998). Prepared the Association of Portugal to ESO (1989) and was National Delegate to the ESO Council until 2013. Chaired the national Scientific Council for “Earth & Space Sciences”.