This Faculty was created on the 19th April 1911, and fromthat year until 1986 it was located in Rua da Escola Politécnica, a location far closer to the center of the city. Nowadays the old building is being used to host the Museum of Sciences, and the faculty has now high quality structures in Campo Grande. It's an area well served by public transportation, including a metro station.
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"The Faculty of Sciences (Portuguese: Faculdade de Ciências, usually abbreviated FCUL) was created on April 19, 1911. From that date until 1985 (when it moved to its current grounds, at Campo Grande) it was established on the former Politechnic School (Escola Politécnica) building. Those former installations are now used as museum, now and then.
Its current grounds comprise a built area of 75662 square meters, corresponding to 8 buildings (labeled C1 through C8, where C stands for Ciências — Sciences) which host the classrooms, offices, cafeterias, libraries, book shop and leisure areas. The faculty population, as of the 2009/2010 school year, consisted of (in parentheses, the numbers as of the 2008/2009 school year):
3055 graduation students (2964);
418 Joint degree (B.Sc.+M.Sc.) students (327)
1008 M.Sc. students (1218);
412 Ph.D. students (552);
388 teachers, about 95.3% hold a Ph.D. (417, 96.6%);
22 hired research staff (23)
186 non-teaching workers (204).
The computer science department has been granted several honours, namely a finalist position in the Descartes Prize and two IBM Scientific Awards.
The faculty's campus also comprises the Instituto de Biofísica e Engenharia Biomédica (IBEB), the Instituto de Oceanografia and the Instituto de Ciência Aplicada e Tecnologia (ICAT).
There are 17 graduations available, in the following areas:
Applied Mathematics
Fundamental Applications branch
Statistics and Operations Research branch
Applied Statistics
Biology
Environmental Biology branch (Marine and Terrestrial profiles)
Cell biology and Biotechnology branch
Evolutionary and Developmental biology branch
Functional and Systems Biology branch
Molecular biology and Genetics branch
Biochemistry
Chemistry
Computer Engineering — the Engineer title requires an additional 2-year Master programme, on one of the following:
Computer Architecture, Systems and Networks (Distributed Systems, Security, Embedded Systems, Fault tolerance)
Information systems (Database systems, Human-Computer Interaction, Mobile computing)
Interaction and Knowledge (Artificial Intelligence-driven: multi-agent system, machine learning, Natural language processing and interaction, neural networks)
Software Engineering (Software design, Algorithms, Programming)
Information and Communications Technology
Energy and Environment (partnership with Instituto Nacional de Engenharia, Tecnologia e Inovação)
Geographical Engineering
Geology
Applied geology and Environment branch
Geology and Natural resources branch
Health Sciences (partnership with Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Dentary Medicine of the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Lisbon and Faculty of Letters of the University of Lisbon)
Maths
Physics
Physics branch
Astronomy and Astrophysics branch
Computational Physics branch
Meteorology, Oceanography and Geophysics
Microbiology (partnership with Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Pharmacy)
Physics Engineering (Engineering Physics)
Technological Chemistry
António de Sommer Champalimaud, a notable Portuguese business tycoon, studied at this Faculty of Sciences but did not graduate. João Magueijo, a Portuguese cosmologist and professor, studied at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon (FCUL). Jorge Palma, singer-songwriter, studied for a while at the Faculty of Sciences before embracing a successful career in music. Nuno Crato, a Portuguese university professor, researcher, mathematician, economist, and writer who has been appointed president of both the Portuguese Mathematical Society and Taguspark, studied for a while at the Faculdade de Ciências before changing his mind and graduate at the ISEG - Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão/Technical University of Lisbon, embracing a notable academic career. Pedro Passos Coelho, Prime Minister of Portugal, studied mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences, but did not graduate there."
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