Claudia Quaresma has a PhD in Biomedical Engineering (graduated in June 2011, NOVA School of Science and Technology) and is an Assistant Professor at NOVA School of Science and Technology of NOVA University Lisbon. Her research projects have been focused in Biomedical Engineering, namely in Rehabilitation. She creates new technology to diagnose neurological and musculoskeletal disorders. Using these tools, she collaborates with clinicians. She has an international medical device patent. She is a scientific reviewer for some journals. 

Helena Canhão is a full Professor of Medicine, Nova Medical School and Invited Full Professor of Epidemiology, National School of Public Health, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

Coordinator of Comprehensive Health Research Center (CHRC) and Head of EpiDoC Unit (Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases Unit), NMS, UNL. Leader and Chief Medical Officer, Patient Innovation. President of Portuguese Society of Rheumatology.

Helena holds a MD, PhD and Habillitation in Medicine from Faculdade de Medicina, Lisbon University. She has a Master in Medical Sciences (Clinical Research) by Harvard Medical School, University of Harvard, Boston, USA. She is also senior consultant of rheumatology (CHULC-Hospital Curry Cabral).

Chair of the Advisory Board of Value for Health CoLab,  Chair of the Advisory Board of AICIB, and Commissioner of CIENCIA 2020. She is member of the Council of NOVA University of Lisbon, and member of the council of NOVA Medical School.

After completing his Master’s Degree at Instituto Superior Técnico in Mechanical Engineering, Bruno Soares has worked in Edifer Construções as a Technical engineer in the building utilities area (HVAC, Electricity, Domotics, etc.), until his acceptance for the PhD program MIT-Portugal, in the Engineering design and advanced manufacturing area. In the year afterwards started teaching at Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal as an invited professor.

In April 2014 starts working at Secomil, Equipamentos Agro Industriais, Lda as Deputy CTO responsible for project and planning, and in October of 2014 successfully completes the defense of his PhD thesis entitled “An integrated approach to composite engineering design considering economic, environmental and mechanical inputs”.

Specialties: Subcontractor Coordination, Product development, composite analysis, cost models 

Filipe  graduated as a Material Science Engineer and got a Master Degree in Material Sciences at Nova School of Science and Technology. After attending the Fab Academy course, he became Fab Master of the FCT FabLab. The technical skills go along with a high motivation, enthusiasm and spirit of innovation.  

Since he remember he always makes his own projects DIY, designing them, but when he discovered 3D printer he couldn’t turn back to it and since then he could take his projects to another level and want to keep doing so.
So far he has made his own 3D printer.

Ana Rodrigues is a researcher of the EpiDoc Unit at CEDOC, the Chronic Diseases Research Centre at Nova Medical School.

She is an assistant Professor on the disciplines of Rheumatology and Epidemiology at Nova Medical School. She also is the head of Rheumatology Unit from Hospital do Santo Espirito de Angra do Heroísmo.

She graduated in Medicine (Rheumatology) from the Lisbon School of Medicine, University of Lisbon. She also completed the Clinical Scholars Research Training I and II from Harvard Medical School- Portugal Program, a two-year training program on clinical research.

She finished her PhD in Medicine, Rheumatology at Faculdade de Medicina, University of Lisbon. Her research is focuses on the EpiDoC cohort a population-based study on chronic diseases in particular Rheumatic diseases (osteoporosis) and aging. She also studies the use of ICTs for elderly health promotion.