page_title: Nuno Crato
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Nuno Crato / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: English: The Federal Minister for Science and Research of Austria, Karlheinz Töchterle, and the Minister for Science and Education of Portugal, Nuno Crato, visited ESO’s Paranal Observatory on 15 March 2013, as part of their official visits to Chile. The ministers and their delegations were hosted by ESO's Director General, Tim de Zeeuw. This picture was taken on the platform of ESO’s Very Large Telescope and three of the Unit Telescope domes are visible in the background, along with the smaller dome of the VLT Survey Telescope. From left to right: the Federal Minister for Science and Research of Austria, Karlheinz Töchterle, ESO's Director General, Tim de Zeeuw, and the Minister for Science and Education of Portugal, Nuno Crato.
context_page_description: Nuno Paulo de Sousa Arrobas Crato, OIH is a Portuguese university professor, researcher, applied mathematician, economist, and writer. For many years, Crato was a researcher and professor in the United States. Back in Portugal, he taught mathematics and statistics at the ISEG/Technical University of Lisbon, while pursuing his research in stochastic models and time series. He also published many articles and participated in events of science popularization and for the history of science. In June 2011, he was appointed Minister of Education, Higher Education and Science, in the cabinet of the Portuguese Government led by Pedro Passos Coelho, serving through the end of Coelho's government in 2015. He was twice awarded a national medal from the President of the Republic, firstly as commander and lastly with the grand cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator, which is the highest grade given to a national figure.
  He has lived and worked in Lisbon, Azores, the United States and Italy.
context_section_description: Crato taught at the University of the Azores, Stevens Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Since 2000 Crato has been professor of mathematics and statistics at ISEG/UTL. He was also appointed pro-Rector of the Technical University of Lisbon.
  He has several general works published in the fields of science popularization and history of science, and myriad academic works and papers in mathematics-related subfields. He has been elected three times president of the Portuguese Mathematical Society (2004-2010) and appointed president of the Taguspark science park in Oeiras Municipality, Lisbon Region. He has been a regular presence in several television programs including 4 vezes ciência for RTP and Mário Crespo's Plano Inclinado for SIC Notícias.
  Crato has won some scientific prizes, namely the European Mathematical Society Public Awareness of Mathematics prize in 2003, and a European Science Award in 2008.
  Currently a full professor of mathematics and statistics at the Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Crato has published on the fields of time series analysis and probabilistic models, with applications in econometrics, computer algorithms, human behavior, and other topics.
caption: Austrian and Portuguese Ministers for Science visit ESO observatory[2]
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