Full Professor of Ethics (University of the Azores), President of the National Ethics Council for Life Sciences, Vice-President of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies of the European Commission (EGE). M. Patrão Neves is member of the UNESCO World Commission for Ethics in Scientific and Technological Knowledge (COMEST), the Steering Committee for Human Rights in Biomedicine and Health (CDBIO) of the Council of Europe, and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences. She was a consultant on the Ethics of Life to the President of the Portuguese Republic and a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics.
She is an ethics expert and project evaluator for the European Commission, as well as an Ethics Consultant and Chair of Ethics Advisory Councils (EAC) for multiple European research projects, and a member of several Ethics Committees, also coordinating international projects, namely within the framework of the Africa-EU partnership. She is the author and/or coordinator of 38 books, and hundreds of articles and has given more than 400 lectures. She is a regular columnist in regional and national magazines. She was a Member of the European Parliament (2009-2014).
