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Maria Paula  Diogo mpdiogo@netcabo.pt Universidade nova de Lisboa Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia Campus do Monte de Caparica 2829-516 Caparica PORTUGAL phone: +351 (0)21 2948 552 fax: +351 (0)21 2948 551

Biographical Sketch

Maria Paula Diogo is Associate Professor of History of Technology at the Faculty of Science and Technology of the New University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the New University of Lisbon, where she specialised in the History of Technology. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on History of Technology and she publishes regularly both in national and international journals. She is currently working on Portuguese engineers and engineering, mainly during the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. She coordinates a national project on Science, Technology and the Empire and she participates on several other projects concerning the Portuguese History of Science and Technology. She is a founding member of STEP (Science and Technology in the European Periphery), an international research group which aims at studying science and technology in the European Peripheries.