José Manuel Malhão Pereira

José Manuel Malhão Pereira, ComSE, born on 12 November 1940 in Loures (Lisbon), is a retired officer (Captain of Sea and War) of the Portuguese Navy, and a worldwide known scholar of nautical sciences.

[1] On 10 June 2013 he was awarded the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.

[2] He is a member of the Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT [pt]), at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon; and also an advisor to the ERC RUTTER Project.

[3] Malhão Pereira was for a long time a professor at the Navy School, and from 1989 to 1993, Commander of the Sagres, school ship of the Portuguese Navy.

Malhão Pereira is a life member of the Kannur University Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (IRISH).