José P. Mimoso is an associate professor in the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon. He works in Cosmology and Relativistic Astrophysics. He received his PhD from the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom, in 1994 and was a visitor at the Institute of Structure of Matter at CSIC, in Madrid, from 1994 to 1997. He was a researcher and member of the board of the Center for Theoretical and Computational Physics during the period 2002–2007 and then a researcher and member of the board of directors at the UL Astronomy and Astrophysics Center from 2009 to 2013. He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 scientific publications. He has collaborations with researchers from some of the best European universities. He is a referee for the main international scientific journals in his field and a consultant for international scientific funding institutions. In 2017, he was distinguished as “Outstanding Referee” by the American Physical Society. He is a member of several national and international scientific societies (SPF, SPA, IAU, RAS, SEGRE), having been a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Gravitation Society (SEGRE) until 2019. He was vice-president of the Physics Department at FCUL from 2012 to 2015 and has held this role again since 1 September 2018.