José Gabriel Andrade

José Gabriel Andrade is an Associate Professor at the University of Minho and currently serves as the Director of the Cultural Unit Casa do Conhecimento, a position he has held since 2021. In 2015, he earned the title of “European Doctor in Communication Sciences” from the Portuguese Catholic University (research supported by FCT), defending a thesis on communication, organisation, and politics in Luso-Brazilian relations.

In 2009, he obtained a Master’s in Communication Sciences: Communication, Organisation, and New Technologies from UCP with support from the EU Alban Programme. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the Catholic University of Santos, São Paulo. He is a member of the European COST Network and the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (SOPCOM), where he coordinated the “Organisational and Institutional Communication Working Group,” and also of the international networks IAMCR, ECREA, and LUSOCOM. Since 2002, he has worked in Organisational and Strategic Communication as an advisor and consultant for public and private organisations in Brazil and Portugal. His research interests are in communication sciences, notably Organisational Communication, Intercultural Communication, and New Information and Communication Technologies. He has published extensively in these areas as author and co-author in books and academic journals. Notable works include Língua portuguesa global: Comunicar no panorama mediático luso-brasileiro (2021) and Brazil and the Emergence of a Digital Lusosphere (2018).