Bio notes

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Director Emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.

His most recent project - ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences - was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe (http://alice.ces.uc.pt/en/).

He has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish.

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Charbel N. El-Hani is a Full Professor at the Institute of Biology, Federal University of Bahia (Brazil), where he coordinates the Laboratory of Teaching, Philosophy and History of Biology (LEFHBio). He holds a BA in Biological Sciences from UFBA (1992), a Master's Degree in Education from UFBA (1996) and a PhD in Education from USP (2000). He coordinates the National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (IN-TREE).

His main research interests are Research in Scientific Education, Philosophy of Biology, Theoretical Biology (especially related to Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, Conservation and Animal Behaviour) and History of Biology.

The research he is conducting at CES is related to one of its main research projects, which focuses on the search for advances in facing epistemological, ontological, ethical and political challenges that confront with proposals for the integration of academic knowledge and other knowledge systems, which have been increasingly common in fields such as conservation and education.