Inês Lynce, a professor at Instituto Superior Técnico and also the president and a researcher at Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), joins the National Council for Science, Technology and Innovation (CNCTI) – the government’s advisory body on science, technology and innovation, which works alongside the members of the government responsible for the economy and science and technology. The appointment was presented today, 5 November, by Luís Montenegro, Prime Minister of the XXIV Government of the Portuguese Republic, at the Técnico Innovation Center in Lisbon. The order issued by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Prime Minister’s Office has also been published in the Diário da República.
The CNCTI is responsible for collaborating in the development and sustainability of the national scientific and technological system, the internationalisation of Portuguese science, and the promotion of Portuguese as a working language in science. It also ensures scientific advice and fosters the transversal and inter-ministerial articulation of science and technology policies.
The CNCTI must also collaborate in parliamentary debates on science, technology, and innovation whenever the Assembly of the Republic requests it.
The appointment of ‘individuals of recognised merit representing (among other organisations) higher education institutions’ is the responsibility of the Prime Minister, who makes the appointment on a proposal from the members of the government responsible for the economy, science and technology, and higher education.
Inês Lynce is also the current co-director of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Portugal partnership. She conducts research in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly in constraint solving and optimisation. Her main contributions include developing search algorithms and applying those algorithms to solve practical problems.
She received the 2008 Deloitte-ULisboa award and the 2009 PremeIA award from the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Since 2020, she has served on the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ) and has previously served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). She was co-organiser of the SAT-SMT-AR 2018 summer school and co-chair of the 21st International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT’19). She will co-chair the 2025 European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) programme. She is a recurring member of various conference programme committees.
