Luís Moniz Pereira, NOVA LINCS Researcher, emeritus Professor at DI FCT NOVA, and member of the Board of Trustees and the Scientific Advisory Board of the IMDEA Software Institute, received the National Science Merit Award 2019 from Portugal, on July 8.

Along his career Pereira has been, among other things, the founding president of the Portuguese Association of Artificial Inteligence becoming one of the pioneeers and most outsdanding researchers in Portugal.

The Lisbon Congress Palace hosted the Science 2019 - Science and Technology Summit in Portugalwhere the awards ceremony was held.