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José Pedro Sousa Dias
José Pedro Sousa Dias is director of the National Museum of Natural History and Science at the University of Lisbon. He is associate professor in the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon, where he teaches the history of pharmacy and therapeutics. He is a member of the research group Science: Studies in History and Philosophy of Scientific Culture (CEHFCi) at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC). His current research interests are the contemporary history of the biomedical sciences in Portugal, the scientific and social aspects of the history of the medicine (seventeenth and eighteenth centuries) and the history of medicine and pharmacy in Portuguese expansion and colonization (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries). He was pro-rector of the University of Lisbon (2006–09, 2010–11) and subdirector of the Faculty of Pharmacy (2009–10). From 2006 to 2011, he was chairman of the executive committee of the Commemorations of the Centenary of the University of Lisbon and was chairman of the board of directors of University of Lisbon Museums (2012–14), of which he has been director since 2014. Recent publications include, ‘“Meninas prendadas” e “fêmeas ambiciosas”: Portugal, Cajal e o papel da mulher na investigação biológica na primeira metade do século XX’, in M. C. Pimentel and P. F. Alberto (eds), Vir Bonus Peritissimus Aeque: Estudos de Homenagem a Arnaldo do Espírito Santo, Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Clássicos (2013, pp. 989–1008); ‘Medicina, ciência e laboratório’, in S. C. Matos and J. R. do Ó (eds), A Universidade de Lisboa nos Séculos XIX e XX, vol. II, Lisbon: Tinta-da-China (2013, pp. 651–717) and ‘A vida para além do estado: Financiamento privado da investigação biomédica em Portugal (1926– 1936)’, in A. J. S. Fitas et al. (eds), A Junta de Educação Nacional e a Investigação Científica em Portugal no Período entre Guerras, Lisbon: Caleidoscópio (2013, pp. 113–35).