António Soares

António Soares is an integrated researcher of the Charter Group, Thematic Line 1 – Preventive Medicine & Societal Challenges, and the Executive Manager of CINTESIS.

He holds a Doctorate Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho and a postgraduation in Project Management from the EGP-Porto Business School. He worked as Clinical Psychologist and Professor before dedicating exclusively to research.

In 2011, he joined a project in the Clinical Communication field, under the supervision of the Faculty of Medicine of the U.Porto (FMUP), that gave him the possibility to visit all the Faculties of Medicine in the country and get to know in depth what Medical Education is about in Portugal. In parallel, he was instructor at the Center of Medical Simulation of Porto (CESIMED) and associate member of the Center of Biomedical Simulation of FMUP.

He was invited in 2012, to take over the scientific management of CINTESIS, adding up to that job the responsibility of representing FMUP at the AgeUP Consortium, at the PtCRIN (Portuguese Clinical Research Infrastructure Network), at the Health Cluster Portugal and at the A3ES. He is also a specialist of the Portuguese National Innovation Agency (ANI).