Shakespeare e a ciência – To Play Or Not To Play

O Teatro Thalia, em Lisboa, irá receber no dia 2 de Dezembro, o concerto “Shakespeare e a ciência – To Play Or Not To Play”, interpretado por Os Músicos do Tejo.

A concepção de «To play or not to play» está entregue a João Fernandes (cantor e ator), Marta Araújo e Marcos Magalhães, e em baixo pode encontrar o programa da noite, que contará ainda com um Prelúdio científico, por Zita Martins.

Zita Martins

Zita Martins é Professora Associada do Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) e Co-Directora do Programa MIT-Portugal (MPP). Os seus interesses científicos incluem a deteção de assinaturas de vida extraterrestre em missões espaciais, e a potencial contribuição de meteoritos e cometas para a origem da vida na Terra. Licenciou-se em Química no IST em 2002, e obteve o Doutoramento em Astrobiologia na Universidade de Leiden (Países Baixos) em 2007. Foi Cientista Convidada na NASA Goddard em 2005 e 2006, e Professora Convidada na Universidade de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (França) em 2012. Em 2009 foi galardoada pela Royal Society com uma University Research Fellowship no valor de 1 milhão de Libras, tendo permanecido no Imperial College London (Reino Unido) de 2007 a 2017. Zita Martins tem participado ativamente em missões espaciais. É Co-Investigadora de dois projetos (OREOcube and EXOcube) da Agência Espacial Europeia (ESA) que irão ser instaladas na Estação Espacial Internacional (ISS). É membro do consórcio Português da missão espacial ARIEL da ESA, é membro da sub-equipa “Organic macromolecules” da missão espacial Hayabusa2 da Agência Espacial Japonesa (JAXA), e a única cientista Portuguesa na missão de classe-F Comet Interceptor da ESA.

Luís Oliveira e Silva

Luís Oliveira e Silva is Professor of Physics at Instituto Superior Tecnico, where he leads the Grupo de Lasers e Plasmas/IPFN. He obtained his degrees (Lic. 1992, PhD 1997 and Habilitation 2005) from IST, and was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of California Los Angeles from 1997 to 2001. His scientific contributions are focused in the in silico exploration of the interaction of intense beams of particles and lasers with plasmas, combining theoretical physics with massively parallel numerical simulations, in laboratory and astrophysical scenarios. He has been awarded with two ERC Advanced grants and he is a fellow of the APS, the EPS, the European Academy of Sciences, and Corresponding Member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.

Giannandrea Inchingolo

Giannandrea Inchingolo is a plasma physicist and creative scientist at the University of Bologna. Since 2018, he creates installations where Arts and Science dialogue together to allow the public to access his astrophysical researches with emotional immediacy. For these projects, he collaborates with some of the top centres for media arts and scientific research, as the MIT Medialab, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics, and the CINECA VISIT Lab. His last project called “Into the (un)known” received several international awards and Art selections, as the 2020 NRAO 1st prize image contest and the Cross Fertilization Lab of MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan.

Fábio Cruz

Fábio Cruz is a PhD student in Physics at the Group of Lasers and Plasmas (GoLP)/IPFN of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). His work focuses on theoretically and numerically modelling the physics of plasmas in extreme astrophysical environments such as neutron stars. Before his PhD, he obtained his MSc. degree in Physics Engineering in 2015 from IST, under the supervision of Prof. Paulo Alves (now at UCLA, USA) and Prof. Luís O. Silva. He is interested in modern techniques of scientific visualization and in their potential for science communication. He has recently collaborated in Turbulence | Voice of Space, the first project of the GoLP Virtual Reality Lab.

João Fernandes

A Helpmann Award winner and Grammy nominee, the Zaïrian-born Portuguese bass João Fernandes graduated from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.

He was revealed by William Christie in the first edition of Le Jardin des Voix, and in 2002, made his stage début with him in Andrei Serban’s Les Indes Galantes at Opéra Garnier.

Since then, he has garnered worldwide acclaim for his skills as a singer and actor in the Baroque, Classical and Belcanto repertoires.
Throughout his career, he has performed in houses and festivals such as New York City Opera, Lincoln Center, Châtelet, Opéra Comique, Champs-Élysées, Salle Gaveau, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opéra de Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Covent Garden, Wigmore Hall, Komische Oper Berlin, Göttingen and Halle Händel Festspiele, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Teatro alla Scala, São Carlos Lisbon, and La Monnaie, alongside most notable conductors and orchestras.

Lately, his noteworthy performances have been of Claudio (Laurence Dale’s Agrippina) and Don Magnifico (Axel Köhler’s La Cenerentola).