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Nuno Crato is Associated Professor on Mathematics and Statistics at the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, in Lisbon. He is pro-rector for the Scientific Culture at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. He was graduated in Economics by the ISEG. He received his PhD in Applied Mathematics in the United States and worked there for various years as researcher and university teacher. His work as researcher is about stochastic processes and time series with diverse applications, especially on climate changes and financial floating systems. He is scientific coordinator of the FCT Centre Cemapre and member of various international scientific societies, namely the American Statistical Association and the International Institute of Forecasters. He was President of the International Symposium on Forecasting in 2000. His papers have been regularly published in several international magazines, like the Statistical Papers, the Journal of Econometrics, Economic Letters, International Journal of Forecasting and Journal of Forecasting. He is President of the Portuguese Society of Mathematics (SPM) and member of the board of the International Forum of the Portuguese Researchers (FIIP). In parallel to his academic work he is also devoted to the scientific divulgation. He collaborates in a regular basis with press, mainly at the Expresso newspaper where he has a space for scientific divulgation. He has also collaborated with several television programs, especially the 4xCiência and the 2010. He has a daily radio program Three Minutes of Science at Europa Radio, in Portugal. He is co-author of Eclipses (Portuguese, Gradiva, 1999), author of Zodiac: Constellations and Myths (Portuguese, Gradiva, 2001), co-author of Venus' Transits (Portuguese, Gradiva, 2004), of the Golden Spiral (Portuguese, Gradiva, 2006), of Sun Dials (CTT, 2007) among other works of scientific divulgation. For his work on scientific divulgation he received, in 2003, the First Prize of the Public Awareness of Mathematics Competition, by the European Society of Mathematics. Recently, he has been also oriented to education. He published Eduquês em Discurso Directo: Uma Crítica da Pedagogia Romântica e Construtivista (Gradiva, 2006), he co-ordinated coordenou the Desastre no Ensino da Matemática: Como Recuperar o Tempo Perdido (SPM/Gradiva, 2006) and he organised the collection To Be a Teacher, with texts by Rômulo de Carvalho (Portuguese, Gradica, 2006).

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