The award in Chemistry will go to Diana Mendes Freire, from the Nova University in Lisbon and Cláudia Alexandra Guindeira Ferreirinha from INESC Porto - Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto.

In physics, the Gulbenkian award recognised the work "The Phylodynamics of swine flu: a simple model for a complex system” by Tomás de Campos Aquino from the Condensed Matter Physics Centre at the University of Lisbon (UL) and the research conducted by João Dias Caetano Silva from the Centre of Physics at the University of Porto, “Searching for an analytical solution for the Standard Theory N=4 Super Yang-Mills".

The proposal on “A Rationale for Information Security” by Andreia Filipa Torcato Mordido from the Institute of Telecommunications and Jocelyn Lochon from the Centre for Linear and Combinatorial Structures at the University of Lisbon were chosen in the mathematics category. In the earth sciences and space category, one of the winners was Ana Filipa Ferreira Bastos from the DOM Luis Institute at the University of Lisbon with her work on “The Influence of Climate Variations on the Dynamics of Vegetation and the Carbon Cycle in the Asia-Europe region”.

Work by Noel Alexandre Fontes Moreira from the Centre for Geophysics in Évora (CGE) at the University of Évora also received an award and the prize for the Internationalisation of Social Sciences Programme went to Sofia Aboim.

The awards will be presented tomorrow in a ceremony with the minister of Education and Science, Nuno Crato.

Diário de Notícias, 5th February 2012