Research interests

• Popularization of Science and Technology;
• Popular science;
• Science in the European peripheries;
• Popularization of Science for children.

Projects

• "Comunicar ciência e tecnologia em Portugal, 1900-1926: o papel da imprensa diária", post-doc project, Faculty of Science University of Lisbon, (FCT/MCTES, SFRH/BPD/71036/2010), 2011-2014.

Publications (selection)

1. Zilhão, I Critical review Laurence Talairach-Vielmas ed., Science in the Nursery: The Popularisation of Science in Britain and France, 1761-1901. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), Host: journal of history of science and technology, 6, 2012.
2. Zilhão, I. Science and technology for children in the Portuguese daily press (1924-1933). 8th STEP Meeting, Corfu, Greece, 21-24 June 2012.
3. Simões, A, Zilhão, I, Diogo, M. P. and Carneiro. A. Halley turns Republican. How the Portuguese press presented the 1910 return of Halley’s comet, History of Science, 51, 2013.
4. Carneiro, A, Maria Paula Diogo, M. P., Simões, A., Zilhão, I., Mergoupi-Savaidou, E. , Papanelopoulou F. and Tzokas , S. :Comparing the public perceptions of science and technology in the Greek and the Portuguese daily press, 1908-1910, 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS), Barcelona, Spain, 18-20 November 2010
5. Simões, A., Zilhão I, Carneiro, A and Diogo, M. P.: Halley turns Republican. How the Portuguese daily press perceived the return of Halley’s comet in 1910. Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Clevland, Ohio, 3-6 November 2011
6. Diogo, M. P., Carneiro, A, Simões, A and Zilhão I.: Science and Technology for the People. Building modernity through the popularization of scientific and technical knowledge (Portugal, 1900-1925). Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Clevland, Ohio, 3-6 November 2011.