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"Professor Carlos Salema's career is a notable example
of dedication to science, teaching and public service. With a clear vision
on the strategic role of technology in society, he contributed decisively
to the modernization of the Portuguese scientific system and to the training of
engineers and researchers. His legacy remains alive in the institutions he
helped to build, in the policies he influenced and in the knowledge he
produced. He is undoubtedly one of the most striking figures in science and technology
in Portugal.” It was thus that, on
15 December last year, on Iscte's 53rd anniversary, Luís Ducla
Soares, currently vice-rector of Iscte, with responsibility for Infrastructures and
Technological Modernization, he referred to Carlos Salema, in the award of the title of doctor honoris causa to the full professor.
As a researcher,
Carlos Salema - who died this Saturday, 25, aged 84 - stood out in the areas
of telecommunications, antennas and wave propagation, always demonstrating a
deep concern for the social impact of science. He developed a career spanning more than four decades at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and, in 2011, it was with his help that a delegation of the Telecommunications Institute (IT) was created at Iscte.
Born in
Ponta Delgada in 1942, Carlos Eduardo Rego da Costa Salema graduated in
Electrotechnical Engineering at IST in 1965. He then attended
Queen Mary College at the University of London, where, in 1972, he completed a doctoral thesis on radiation and transmissions, entitled Theory and Design
of Dielectric Cone Antennas.
Full professor at IST between 1979 and 2003, he was also president of IT, the College of Electrotechnical Engineering of the Order of Engineers, the Executive Council of the Foundation for National Scientific Computing, member of the General Council of the University of Beira Interior and, among many other positions, member of the Portuguese section of the Education Society Chapter of the Institute of Electrical and
Electronic Engineers. Between 1989 and 1992, he succeeded Mariano Gago as president of the National Board of Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT) and, more recently, between 2019 and 2021, he also assumed the presidency of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. In 2017, after the large forest fires in Pedrogão
Grande, he led the team that evaluated emergency response systems.
The excellence of his career was recognized at the highest level, through distinctions such as the Medal of Scientific Merit and the Grand Cross of the Order of Public Instruction. As a
teacher, however, the greatest recognition came from his students, who gave him the title of “best teacher on the course”.
In note of regret published on the Presidency website, the head of state, António José Seguro,
highlighted “a life dedicated to knowledge, public service and progress of society”, marking the “education and technological development of the country”. "His legacy will remain alive in the institutions to which he belonged, in the students he trained and in everyone he inspired throughout his life. As president of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, Carlos Salema promoted dialogue between knowledge, reinforcing the role of science as an essential pillar of a fairer and more enlightened society", added the President of the Republic.
Carlos Salema's funeral services begin this Sunday, 26th, at 5 pm, at the Church of Santo António do Estoril. On Monday, the 27th, a funeral mass will be celebrated at 9 am, then proceeding to the Galiza cemetery, in Estoril.
