Luís Miguel Carolino is an Associate Professor (with "Agregação") at the Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE-IUL), Portugal, where he is also a researcher affiliated with CIES. He was Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2019) and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2007). Before joining the History Department at the ISCTE-IUL, in September 2013, he held postdoc and research positions at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science (IMSS), Florence, Italy (2001-02), Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2002-07) and University of Lisbon, Portugal (2008-13). His main research interests concern History of Science, History of Learned Institutions and Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Cosmology and Astronomy, areas in which he has published extensively. Carolino is member of the International Commission of the History of Universities.

Luís Nuno Rodrigues é Professor Catedrático do Departamento de História do ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, onde dirige o Mestrado e o Doutoramento em Estudos Internacionais. Doutorado em História Americana pela Universidade do Wisconsin e em História Moderna e Contemporânea (especialidade História das Relações Internacionais na Época Contemporânea) pelo ISCTE-IUL, foi Visiting Professor na Brown University, Estados Unidos da América. Foi anteriormente Diretor da revista Portuguese Journal of Social Science, Diretor do Doutoramento em História, Estudos de Segurança e Defesa (em colaboração com a Academia Militar) e Diretor do Centro de Estudos Internacionais do ISCTE . As suas áreas de especialização são a História das Relações Internacionais, História da Guerra Fria, História de Portugal do século XX e História dos Estados Unidos da América. Orientou dezenas de teses de doutoramento e de teses de Mestrado. Organizou mais de uma centena de colóquios, conferências e seminários e apresentou comunicações orais em número idêntico de eventos científicos, em Portugal e no estrangeiro. É autor de 9 livros, coordenador de outros 8 e publicou 55 capítulos de livros ou entradas em obras coletivas e mais de 30 artigos em revistas especializadas. A sua obra Kennedy-Salazar: A Crise de Uma Aliança. As Relações Luso-Americanas entre 1961 e 1963, publicada em 2002, foi galardoada com os Prémios Fundação Mário Soares e Aristides Sousa Mendes. Entre as suas publicações mais recentes contam-se o livro Spínola, publicado pela Esfera dos Livros em 2010, a obra coletiva intitulada Perceptions of NATO and the New Strategic Concept, que editou com Volodymyr Dubovyk, o artigo “Establishing a ‘Cultural Base’? The Creation of the Fulbright Program in Portugal”, publicado em 2017 na International History Review e a obra coletiva L'Aviation et son impact sur le temps et l'espace, publicada em 2019 pelas Editions Le Manuscript.

Professor at Lisbon University Institute, Nuno Luis Madureira works currently in the areas of  energy and environmental history. Visiting scholar at University of Harvard and visiting scholar at University of Berkeley, USA; member of the permanent pool of referees of the European Science Foundation (2006-2013) and of the College of Reviewers of the European Science Foundation (2016-2023).  Member  of the Research Foundation- Flanders (FWO) Review College. Consultant of the  NWO -Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.  Member of ISCTE's General Board.  Editor of the Journal Frontiers in sustainability..Coordinator of several collective research projects. Author of thirteen Books, the last of which, "Key concepts in energy: technology, economy and History", Springer, was published in 2014. Author of academic articles published in the following journals: Entreprise & Society;  Frontiers in Energy Research;  Energy Policy; Environment and History;  Technology & Culture;  Business History; Business History Review;  Journal of the Philosophy of History;  Journal of Global History;  Revista Brasileira de Politica Internacional;  Contemporary European History; European Review of History- Revue Europeenne d'Histoire;  Journal of Contemporary History;  Política y Sociedad and LLul. Short articles can also be found in several International Encyclopedias and web sites. N.L. Madureira speaks fluently French and English.

Paulo Teodoro de Matos is an historian and holds a PhD in Historical Demography. Since 2019 he is Assistant Professor at Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Department of History. His main research activities are related to Historical Demography, Social History and History of the Portuguese Expansion. Recently he has been also interested in studying prices and wages in the Portuguese Indic Ocean, 1500-1650. He is the PI of the international research project “Counting Colonial Populations. Demography and the uses of statistic in the Portuguese empire, 1776-1875” and member of the research project "Local and European Wages in the Portuguese Ocean, 1500-1650: new sources and analytical tools". Together with Isabel Tiago de Oliveira, he is the Portuguese representative of COST ACTION - The Great Leap. Multidisciplinary approaches to health inequalities, 1800-2022 (GREATLEAP) Ref. CA22116 His latest publication is Teodoro de Matos, Paulo (2023), "Portuguese Colonial Cities on the Atlantic Coasts: A Demographic Study, 1776–1809", e-journal of Portuguese History, vol. 21, nº 1 doi.org/10.26300/cvy3-3k85