Prof. Francisco S. N. Lobo

Francisco Lobo is the current coordinator of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (IA). He is a researcher at the IA and Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Physics of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). He was formerly the Leader of the IA-Cosmology Group (Unveiling the Dynamics of the Universe) and has been a member of the IA since its inception. He completed his PhD from the University of Lisbon in 2005. He is a member of the Euclid and LISA missions. He has published over 200 articles in high-impact international scientific journals and has participated in over 50 refereed conference proceedings; he has written over 25 book chapter(s) and 2 books [his h-index is the following: h=74 (INSPIRES); h=72 (NASA/ADS); h=78 (Google Scholar)]. He has supervised a significant number of MSc/PhD/post-docs and has been very successful in acquiring external funding. In the consecutive years of 2021 and 2022, he won the Ciências Research Award, a prize indicating that the FCUL distinguishes him as its most productive researcher in the previous year. In the consecutive years of the period 2018-2023, he was placed in the top 2% of a publicly available database, published by the PLoS Biology journal, of the world's 100,000 top scientists. He was the recipient of the 2021 Prémio Científico Universidade de Lisboa/Caixa Geral de Depósitos in the area of Physics.