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Director

Jeroen Dewulf

Prof. Jeroen Dewulf
Folklore / German & Dutch
jdewulf@berkeley.edu

Executive Director

Sydney Weaver

Sydney Weaver

csp@berkeley.edu

CPS Honorary Fellow

Dr. Deolinda Adão 

Faculty Board

Filipa ​Rijo-Ferreira, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology

Luísa Caldas, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design

G. Matt Kondolf, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning  

Nathaniel Wolfson, Department of Spanish and Portuguese

J. Miguel Vilas-Boas, Haas Business School

Rosemary Gillespie, Environmental Science

Advisory Board

Michael Baum, Executive Board member, Luso-American Development Foundation; Professor, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Manuel Bettencourt, Former President, Luso-American Education Foundation  

Elvira Callapez, Principal Investigator, University of Lisbon

Luís Carolino, Professor, Iscte, Lisbon

Salwa Castelo-Branco, Em. Professor, New University of Lisbon 

Elsa Henriques, Professor, University of Lisbon 

Leão Lopes, Author

Inocência Mata, Professor, University of Lisbon

Inês Pedrosa, author/journalist

Alexandre Quintanilha, Member of Parliament; Professor, University of Porto

Dana Redford, Expert, Entrepeneurship and innovation

Carlos Reis, Professor, University of Coimbra

Carlos Vieira, Director, Luso-American Financial

Don Warrin, Regional Oral History Office, UC Berkeley Bancroft Library

Pinto-Fialon Awardees

The Pinto-Fialon scholarships are open to all degree-seeking students, who are officially admitted to the University of California, Berkeley and who are either Portuguese or Portuguese-American. Below is the list of the graduate and undergraduate students who were awarded a Pinto-Fialon scholarship for the academic year 2025-26:
  • Miguel Duarte, a doctoral student in the Department of Economics
  • Gal Forer, a JSD student in Law
  • Brendan Henrique, a doctoral student in the Department of Education
  • Daniel Oliviera, a doctoral student in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
  • Karina Anders, an undergraduate student with a major in Data Science
  • Amélia Ávila, an undergraduate student with a major in Global Studies
  • Hailey Brooks, an undergraduate student with a major in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management / Molecular Environmental Biology
  • Sofia Cunha, an undergraduate student with a major in Cognitive Science
  • Madison Dutra is an undergraduate student in the College of Letters and Science
  • Eliana Harel is an undergaduate student with a major in Economics
  • Kendall Lima, an undergraduate student with a major in English
  • Alexander Nunes Vieira, an undergraduate student with an intended major in Political Economy
  • Andre Rayner, an undergraduate student with a major in Data Science
  • Destinee Reynolds, an undergraduate student with an intended major in Economics and Sociology
  • Lucas Salles, an undergraduate student with a major in Chemical Biology
  • Marta Vieria, an undergraduate student with a major in Architecture