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Heitor Alvelos
Prof Heitor Alvelos, Ph.D. in Design (Royal College of Art, 2003), MFA (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992), is the current chair of the Scientific Board (HSS) at the Foundation for Science and Technology, member of Academia Europaea since 2015 and professor of design and new media at the University of Porto, where he directs the Ph.D. programme in design and ID+, Institute for Research in Design, Media and Culture/Unexpected Media Lab. He is an outreach director of the UTAustin-Portugal Programme in Digital Media (2010–14), where he curates the FuturePlaces Medialab for Citizenship since 2008.