António Câmara
António Câmara is a professor at the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa and has been a visiting professor at both Cornell University (1988–89) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998–99).[1] He was a Senior Consultant to the Expo '98 project and Senior Advisor to the National Geographical Information System (Sistema Nacional de Informação Geográfica). He was a member of the engineering team which studied and evaluated the Alqueva Dam's environmental impact. He has been YDreams CEO and founder[1] since the company was created in June 2000. In 2006, Câmara was awarded with the Pessoa.[1]
Câmara was awarded a licentiate degree in civil engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and a doctorate degree from the Virginia Tech. He was a tennis player during his youth and was part of the under-18 and under-21 national tennis teams.
References
- ^ a b c Machado, Alexandra (16 December 2006). "António Câmara recebe Prémio Pessoa". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 December 2010.[permanent dead link]
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Recipients of the Pessoa Prize
- José Mattoso (1987)
- António Ramos Rosa (1988)
- Maria João Pires (1989)
- Menez (1990)
- Cláudio Torres (1991)
- António Damásio / Hanna Damásio (1992)
- Fernando Gil (1993)
- Herberto Hélder (declined award) (1994)
- Vasco Graça Moura (1995)
- João Lobo Antunes (1996)
- José Cardoso Pires (1997)
- Eduardo Souto de Moura (1998)
- Manuel Alegre / José Manuel Rodrigues (1999)
- Emmanuel Nunes (2000)
- João Bénard da Costa (2001)
- Manuel Sobrinho Simões (2002)
- José Gomes Canotilho (2003)
- Mário Cláudio (2004)
- Luís Miguel Cintra (2005)
- António Câmara (2006)
- Irene Pimentel (2007)
- Carrilho da Graça (2008)
- Manuel Clemente (2009)
- Maria do Carmo Fonseca (2010)
- Eduardo Lourenço (2011)
- Richard Zenith (2012)
- Maria Manuel Mota (2013)
- Henrique Leitão (2014)
- Rui Chafes (2015)
- Frederico Lourenço (2016)
- Manuel Aires Mateus (2017)
- Miguel Bastos Araújo (2018)
- Tiago Rodrigues (2019)
- Elvira Fortunato (2020)
- Tiago Pitta e Cunha (2021)
- João Luís Barreto Guimarães (2022)
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