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Maria Paula Diogo (Lisbon, 05-05-1958) is Full Professor of History of Technology at the Faculty of Science and Technology of NOVA (New University of Lisbon). She holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the New University of Lisbon, where she specialized in the History of Technology. She is the Head of the Department of Social Sciences and of the research unit Centre for the History of Sciences and Technology. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on History of Technology and she publishes on regular bases both nationally and internationally. 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.