Olga Pombo

Olga Pombo got her degree in Philosophy at University of Lisbon. She concluded in 1986  a Master in Modern Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon, presenting a dissertation untitled “Leibniz and the Problem of a Universal Language”. In 1998 she concluded a PhD at the University of Lisbon with a dissertation untitled “Unity of Science and disciplinary configuration of knowledge”. In 2009, she got the Aggregation in History and Philosophy of Science with the presentation of the lesson “Tasks of the Epistemology and Philosophy of Science for the XXI century”. She is currently Professor of the Unit of History and Philosophy of the Science of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL) of which she was the President between 2007 and 2012. She has coordinated several research projects, namely, “Encyclopedia and Hypertext” (FCT- Sapiens, 1999-2002), “Scientific Culture. Conceptual migrations and Social Contaminations " (FCT - Sapiens, 2002-2005), “Image in Science and the Art” (FCT - PTDC, 2006-2011), “Universal Logics and Unity of Science” (CRUP- Luso-Spanish Integrated project) and “Knowledge Dynamics in the Field of Social Sciences: Abduction, Intuition and Invention” (CRUP- Luso-Spanish Integrated project) and she is a member and associate researcher of several other national and international projects. She is founder member of the Société de Philosophie des Sciences and of the Latin American Chair Leopoldo Zea of Philosophy and Epistemology of the Federal University of the Latin American Integration, Brazil. She is currently the editor in chief of Kairos - Journal of Philosophy and Science. Since 2003, she is the Coordinator of the Center for Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (CFCUL) and, since 2013, Program Director of the Doctoral FCT international program “Philosophy of Science, Technology, Art and Society”. She is the author of 12 authored books, 25 edited volumes and numerous articles in national and international journals.