Nuno Crato

Nuno Crato

Nuno Paulo de Sousa Arrobas Crato (born March 9, 1952 in São Jorge de Arroios , Lisbon ) is a Portuguese mathematician and statistician. From June 21, 2011 to October 30, 2015, he held the office of Minister of Education and Science in the Passos Coelho cabinet .

Life

Nuno Crato, son of Paulo António Arrobas Crato and Maria de Lourdes Machado de Sousa, who are both professors of mathematics, was born on March 9, 1952 in the Lisbon municipality of São Jorge de Arroios. He grew up in Lisbon, the Azores and the USA.

Crato studied at the Institute of Economics and Administration (ISEG) of the Technical University of Lisbon , where he completed his licenciatura (Bachelor) in economics . He completed his studies there with a master’s degree in the field of mathematical methods of business management. In 1992, Crato received his doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Delaware (USA). He then worked as a lecturer at various institutions, including a Lisbon secondary school, the Universidade dos Açores , the Stevens Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Institute of Technology .

In 2000, Crato was President of the International Symposium on Forecasting . He also returned to Portugal in the same year and came back to his first university institution. At the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão worked as a professor of mathematics and statistics. At the same time, Crato also chaired the Portuguese Society for Mathematics and was Vice-Rector at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa . and member of the Board of Directors of the Forum Internacional de Investigadores Portugueses (FIIP).

In 2000, Crato was President of the International Symposium on Forecasting . Between 2004 and 2010 he was chairman of the Portuguese Society for Mathematics.

On June 6, 2008, Aníbal Cavaco Silva , President of Portugal, raised him to the status of a Comtur ( Comendador ) of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique .

In June 2010 Nuno Crato became Managing Director of Taguspark . He gave up when he was appointed Minister of Education.

politics

On 17 June 2011, the previously suggested in the general election victorious Pedro Passos Coelho Nuno Crato in front of his cabinet as a non-party of four ministers. President Cavaco Silva then appointed him Minister of Education and Science on June 21, 2011.

In the field of school education, Crato is pushing through a revision of the curricula, which includes strengthening the main subjects (mathematics, Portuguese, history, geography, English). Furthermore, this included stricter standards for the final exams and their introduction for the subjects of mathematics and Portuguese after the fourth and ninth grades. He also focused on strengthening the autonomy of the individual schools.

Furthermore, in cooperation with the German Minister of Education Annette Schavan, he campaigned for the introduction of dual vocational training in Portugal. In the higher education sector, Crato campaigned for a greater concentration on main subjects and for the differentiation and profiling of Portuguese universities and colleges. In cooperation with the Community of Portuguese- Speaking Countries (CPLP), he made it easier to send Portuguese teachers, especially to East Timor .

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Nuno Crato is primarily concerned with the research of stochastic processes and time series analysis in computational, climatic and financial fields. The European Mathematical Society awarded him in 2003 the first prize in the competition Public Awareness of Mathematics for his numerous works. The European Union presented Crato with the European Science Award in 2008 in the Science Communicator of the Year category .

Nuno Crato is the author and co-author of numerous publications, including:

• Eclipses (Gradiva, 1999)
• Zodíaco: Constelações e Mitos (Gradiva, 2001)
• Trânsitos de Vénus (Gradiva, 2004)
• A Espiral Dourada, Coelhos de Fibonacci, Pentagramas, Cifras e Outros Mistérios Matemáticos d 'O Código Da Vinci (Gradiva, 2006)
• Relógios de Sol (CTT, 2007)
• Passeio Aleatório (Gradiva, 2007)
• A Matemática das Coisas (SPM / Gradiva, 2008) e de outras obras de divulgação.

Furthermore, Crato frequently expresses himself on questions relating to the quality and form of school and university teaching , including O Eduquês em Discurso Directo: Uma Crítica da Pedagogia Romântica e Construtivista (Gradiva, 2006), and he also gave the book Desastre no Ensino da Matemática: Como Recuperar o Tempo Perdido (SPM / Gradiva, 2006), the anthology Ser Professor (Gradiva, 2006) and the book Ensino da Matemática: Questões e Soluções (Gulbenkian, 2011). In addition, Crato has been publishing columns in the weekly Expresso on an irregular basis since 1996 .

Private

Crato has been married since 1985 and has a son and daughter.

Web links

• Official website (English, Portuguese)
• Profile on GeneAll.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} António Luís Cardoso Perestrelo: "Genealogias do Alto Alentejo", Cultideias, 2011, page 107
2. ↑ Award ceremony for the best UTL students ( Memento of the original from June 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , UTL press release, December 15, 2008, accessed January 2, 2012 
3. ↑ Read in the database of the Portuguese Presidency at http://www.ordens.presidencia.pt/ , no direct link possible (accessed on January 2, 2013; Portuguese)
4. ↑ ^{a b} Teresa Oliveira: Nuno Crato, a Educação depois do Taguspark , [Nuno Crato, after the Taguspark now education], O Sol, June 17, 2011, last accessed on January 2, 2013