Faculty of Law The Faculty of Law (Portuguese:
Faculdade de Direito) was officially created by a Decree of 22 March 1911 as
Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Políticas, but was only installed in 1913, and was given its current designation later in 1918. It was originally located at the Valmor Building (
Edifício Valmor) at the
Campo dos Mártires da Pátria. It was transferred to its current campus at the University City (
Cidade Universitária) in 1957-1958. A new building, housing the Faculty's library, was built in the late 1990s. The only graduation given is
law, and the specialised post-graduate studies available include several branches of the same area. Among the many graduates from the faculty of law are the former
Presidents of Portugal Jorge Sampaio and
Mário Soares, Prime Minister
Marcelo Caetano, the
President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso, Portuguese statesman, deputy, and professor
Adriano Moreira and businessman and former
Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemão. Current President
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was a full professor there for many years, before his election in 2016.
First Republic political leader and several times Prime Minister
Afonso Costa was a teacher at the faculty and its founder and first dean. Television
pundit and geopolitics expert
Nuno Rogeiro and the writer and university professor
Jaime Nogueira Pinto also studied there.
Miguel Trovoada, former
Prime Minister (1975–1979) and
President of
São Tomé and Príncipe was also one of its students, as well as
Francisca Van Dunem, currently the Portuguese Minister for Justice.
João Vale e Azevedo, a lawyer and former chairman of SL Benfica, was also a student and an assistant lecturer at this faculty.
Faculty of Sciences The Faculty of Sciences (Portuguese:
Faculdade de Ciências, usually abbreviated
FCUL) was created on 19 April 1911 by the transformation of the former Lisbon Polytechnic School (
Escola Politécnica de Lisboa). The Polytechnic School itself had been created in 1837, by the transformation and merger of the previous Royal Marine Academy (1779) and Royal College of the Nobles (1761). From 1911 until 1985 (when it moved to its current site at
Campo Grande), the Faculty of Sciences was located at the former Polytechnic School building, which currently hosts the
National Museum of Natural History and Science. Its current grounds, over a built area of 75662 square meters, comprise eight buildings (labeled C1 through C8, where
C stands for
Ciências — Sciences) hosting classrooms, offices, cafeterias, libraries, a stationery shop, leisure areas and gardens. The faculty population, as of the 2009/2010 school year, consisted of (in parentheses, the numbers as of the 2008/2009 school year): • 3055 graduation students (2964); • 418 Joint degree (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) students (327) • 1008 M.Sc. students (1218); • 412 Ph.D. students (552); • 388 teachers, about 95.3% hold a Ph.D. (417, 96.6%); • 22 hired research staff (23) • 186 non-teaching workers (204). The computer science department has been granted several honours, namely a finalist position in the
Descartes Prize and two
IBM Scientific Awards. The faculty's campus also comprises the
Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica (IBEB), the
Instituto de Oceanografia and the
Instituto de Ciência Aplicada e Tecnologia (ICAT). There are 18 graduations available, in the following areas: •
Applied Mathematics •
Fundamental Applications branch •
Statistics and Operations Research branch •
Applied Statistics •
Biology •
Environmental Biology branch (
Marine and Terrestrial profiles) •
Cell biology and Biotechnology branch •
Evolutionary and Developmental biology branch •
Functional and Systems Biology branch •
Molecular biology and Genetics branch •
Biochemistry •
Chemistry •
Computer Engineering — the
Engineer title requires an additional 2-year
Master programme, on one of the following: •
Computer Architecture, Systems and Networks (
Distributed Systems,
Security,
Embedded Systems,
Fault tolerance) •
Information systems (
Database systems,
Human-Computer Interaction,
Mobile computing) •
Interaction and Knowledge (
Artificial Intelligence-driven:
multi-agent system,
machine learning,
Natural language processing and interaction,
neural networks) •
Software Engineering (
Software design,
Algorithms,
Programming) •
Information and Communications Technology •
Energy and
Environment (partnership with
Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação) •
Geographical Engineering •
Geology •
Applied geology and Environment branch •
Geology and Natural resources branch •
Health Sciences (partnership with
Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon,
Faculty of Dentary Medicine of the University of Lisbon,
Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon and
Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon) •
Maths •
Physics •
Physics branch •
Astronomy and Astrophysics branch •
Computational Physics branch •
Meteorology,
Oceanography and
Geophysics •
Microbiology (partnership with Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy) • Physics Engineering (
Engineering Physics) • Biomedical Engineering & Biophysics (
Biomedical engineering) • Technological Chemistry
António de Sommer Champalimaud, a notable Portuguese business tycoon, studied at this Faculty of Sciences but did not graduate.
João Magueijo, a Portuguese cosmologist and professor, studied at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL).
Jorge Palma, singer-songwriter, studied for a while at the Faculty of Sciences before embracing a successful career in music.
Nuno Crato, a Portuguese university professor, researcher, mathematician, economist, and writer who has been appointed president of both the
Portuguese Mathematical Society and
Taguspark, studied for a while at the
Faculdade de Ciências before changing his mind and graduate at the ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão/
Technical University of Lisbon, embracing a notable academic career.
Pedro Passos Coelho,
Prime Minister of Portugal, studied mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences, but did not graduate there.
Branca Edmée Marques studied chemistry before moving to Paris to study radiology with
Marie Curie. She would return to Lisbon to eventually become the first female professor of chemistry.
Lidia Salgueiro taught physics and conducted research for over 30 years, becoming the first woman to be elected as a Corresponding Member of the
Lisbon Academy of Sciences, an organization founded in 1779.
Faculty of Medicine The Faculty of Medicine is a leading medical school, having its origins in the 19th century when the
Real Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa was founded in the city. Santa Maria's Hospital (Hospital de Santa Maria), one of the biggest Portuguese hospitals, is the teaching hospital of the faculty, and share the same installations.
António Damásio and Alexandre Carlos Caldas studied at this faculty, and
Egas Moniz (a
Nobel Prize winner) was a professor there. Other noted personalities who studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon include: •
António Lobo Antunes, (born 1 September 1942), Portuguese novelist. •
Joaquim Alberto Chissano, (born 22 October 1939), second President of Mozambique.
(dropped out) •
João Lobo Antunes, (born 4 June 1944), a prominent Portuguese Neurosurgeon. •
Jonas Savimbi, (1934–2002), a guerrilla, military leader and politician from Angola.
(dropped out) •
José Tomás de Sousa Martins, 19th century physician, noted for the esoteric cult-status achieved after his death. •
Agostinho Neto, (1922–1979), served as the first President of Angola. •
António Rendas (born 1949), medical academic and researcher •
Maria Elisa, (born in 1950), journalist and television presenter.
(dropped out) •
Carlos Caldas, (born 1960), Chair of Cancer Medicine at the University of Cambridge.
Faculty of Letters The Faculty of Letters (Portuguese:
Faculdade de Letras), FLUL, was created in 1911 by the transformation of the previous Superior Studies in Letters, from which all students and professors were transferred. The Superior Studies in Letters itself had been created in 1859 by King
Pedro V, from which all students and professors were transferred. The Faculty of Letters remained installed on the facilities of the Superior Studies, an annex to the Academy of Science, until 1957, when it changed to the current building, in the University City (
Cidade Universitária). In 1975, a new pavilion was built to accommodate the large influx of students who arrived after the democratization of higher education in Portugal, a consequence of the
Carnation Revolution. The pavilion, theoretically provisional, still stands today. In 2001, two new buildings were finished: one to accommodate new classrooms and the Computer Room, and the Library Building, which is now the second biggest library in Portugal. Although the faculty's graduation with most studies is modern languages and literatures (
Línguas e Literaturas Modernas) (which has a number of variants, including studies in
Portuguese,
Spanish,
English,
French,
German and
Italian), it also offers
philosophy,
history (and
archeology),
African studies,
Asian studies,
European studies,
cultural studies and
classical studies (the degree itself is named classic languages and literatures). It is also the former home of the degree in
psychology. In the mid-1980s a new Faculty of Psychology was created to accommodate it. Notable professors at the faculty include the second President of the Portuguese Republic,
Teófilo Braga, and writers
Vitorino Nemésio and
Urbano Tavares Rodrigues. The poet
Fernando Pessoa was a former student, though only attended for less than a year.
Fialho Gouveia, a noted Portuguese television presenter, attended the
Romance Philology course at the
Faculdade de Letras but dropped out in order to follow a successful career in radio and television. The writer
Luiz Pacheco was a student at FLUL before dropping out. The actress
Alexandra Lencastre and
Moonspell frontman
Fernando Ribeiro also attended the philosophy course but did not graduate. Famous musician and composer
Fernando Lopes-Graça also dropped out of FLUL. Football player and manager
Artur Jorge graduated by FLUL after has been a student at the
University of Coimbra's FLUC. ==Research==