The Research Center for Informatics and Information Technologies ( Centro de Investigação em Informática e Tecnologias da Informação - CITI ) is a research institute partially funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) and by the New University of Lisbon, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Department of Informatics (DI/FCT/UNL), where it is located since its foundation in 1997. CITI develops basic and applied research in Computer Science and Informatics. CITI research team is currently composed by around 35 Full Time Equivalent researchers.

The long term mission of CITI is focused in three main thematic areas:

• Computing Systems
• Software Principles and Methods
• Multimodal Systems

Research work is currently organized in various goal-directed project-teams. CITI is also actively involved in several international collaboration networks and projects, in particular the Carnegie-Mellon Portugal Program, and the UT-Austin Portugal Program, through several research and educational initiatives.

The Center for Informatics and Information Technologies (Centro de Investigação em Informática e Tecnologias da Informação - CITI) is a research institute partially funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) and by Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where it is located since its foundation in 1997.

The mission of CITI is to promote basic and applied research in Computer Science and Informatics. CITI research team is currently composed by around 35 Full Time Equivalent researchers, thus registering a noticiable growth in human resources from the seed staff of 8 researchers back in 1997. While the vast majority of its members are FCT/UNL faculty, CITI has also acted as an attraction pole for researchers from nearby universities.

The research directions at CITI cover a wide spectrum of themes, ranging from the foundations and models, programming languages and software architectures, to parallel and distributed computing systems, multimedia, graphics, interaction, and human language technologies and tools. Such a broad coverage of scientific themes, in close connection with the graduate and undergraduate teaching mission of our host Department of Informatics is a distinctive aspect of CITI.

We believe that our integrated approach to research, and commitment to postgraduate education through research, is providing us the ability to keep cutting the edge while tackling many emerging challenges in computing science and engineering, in close cooperation with academic and industrial partners at the national and international scale.