Portugal-Berkeley Activities

Berkeley-Portugal Faculty Mobility Recipients

Jeff Groh

Jeff Groh is a 2025-2028 Miller postoctoral fellow at the Miller institute. Dr. Groh recieved a Berkeley-Portugal Faculty mobility grant for Summer 2026 to present his talk " Ancient structural variants control sex-specific flowering time morphs in the walnut family" at...Read more about Jeff Groh

Paola Bacchetta

Paola Bacchetta is Professor and the Chair of the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at University of California, Berkeley. She is a critical theorist whose research focuses on gender, sexuality, colonialism, race, religion, capitalism, Empire, and other relations...Read more about Paola Bacchetta

Rosemary Gillespie

Rosemary Gillespie is the William M. and Esther G. Schlinger Chair in Systematic Entomology and a professor of Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Her research focuses on insects and spiders that comprise much of life's diversity and are...Read more about Rosemary Gillespie

Georgios Eftaxiopoulos

Georgios Eftaxiopoulos is an architect. He is assistant professor of architecture and urbanism at the University of California, Berkeley, and principal at the architecture and urban design practice EO. Previously, he practiced in Belgium and Switzerland...Read more about Georgios Eftaxiopoulos

Berkeley-Portugal Faculty Exchange Recipients

Upcoming Exchanges

The Center for Portuguese studies is proud to announce that the following professors have received funding for the Faculty exchange program:

Esmée van der Hoeven and Antoinet Brink Fall 2026

Esmée van der Hoeven is Continuing Lecturer in the Dutch Studies Program at the Department of German. She has an MA degree in Language and Culture Studies from Utrecht University (2004), and received her certification in teaching Dutch as a Foreign Language from VU University Amsterdam...Read more about Esmée van der Hoeven and Antoinet Brink Fall 2026

Bryan Wagner and Walter Rossa Fall 2026

Bryan Wagner is Professor in the English Department, Director of the Folklore Program, and Professor in the American Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research focuses on African American expression in the context of slavery and its...Read more about Bryan Wagner and Walter Rossa Fall 2026

Massimo Mazzotti and Maria Elvira Callapez Fall 2026

Massimo Mazzotti is the Thomas M. Siebel Presidential Chair in the History of Science, a professor in the Department of History(...Read more about Massimo Mazzotti and Maria Elvira Callapez Fall 2026

Previous Exchanges

Jhonni Carr and Professor Thais França Spring 2026

Dr. Jhonni Carr holds a PhD in Hispanic Linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. She teaches in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Berkeley. Specializing in Spanish Sociolinguistics, she investigates language access...Read more about Jhonni Carr and Professor Thais França Spring 2026

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas and Pedro Vicente Fall 2025

Sofia Berto Villas-Boas is the Class of 1934 Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor in Agricultural Economics and Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at U C Berkeley. Born in Portugal in 1971 she received her Ph.D. in Economics from U. C.

Jeremy Magruder and Catia Batista Fall 2025

Jeremy Magruder is a development economist whose research investigates agriculture, labor markets, social networks, and public policy in low-income countries. Magruder’s work integrates field experiments, econometrics, and applied microeconomics to

David Oppenheimer and Nausica Palazzo Fall 2025

David B. Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor of Law.

He serves as the Faculty Co-Director of the Pro Bono Program, and the