Background
The origin of CEFITEC dates back to the 1960s succeeding installed capabilities and facilities at former Nuclear Energy Studies Commission (CEEN), the Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Physics Calouste Gulbenkian Laboratory, the Molecular Physics Centre (CFM) from the National Institute for Scientific Research (INIC) and later from the National Body for Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT), from Lisbon Universities and from the Technical University of Lisbon.
Since its formal and legal establishment in 1994 at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, CEFITEC has been electing the following Heads of Research (or Directors of Research):
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| Professor Orlando Manuel Neves Duarte Teodoro | Professor Paulo Manuel Assis Loureiro Limão-Vieira | Professor Manuel Joaquim de Paula Maneira | Professor Maria de Lourdes Santos Lourenço Costa | Professor Augusto Manuel Celorico Moutinho |
| 2019 - Present | 2008 - 2019 | 2004 - 2008 | 2002 - 2004 | 1996 - 2002 |
