José Nunes Ramalho Croca was born in Cabeção, Évora in 1944. Graduated in Physics in 1973 by the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, he received a PhD in Physics in 1985, from this same faculty, defending a thesis entitled “Tunnel Effect on the Causal Formulation of Quantum Mechanics”. In 1986 he became Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon, and in 1998 he aggregate in the area of ​​Physics at the University of Lisbon. He was recently awarded the 2008 Santilli-Galileu Prize – Gold Medal, for The Crusading Work Towards the Demise of the Prevailing Scientifc Obscurantism (see interview) and with the International Rationalist Federation Award, FIR 2008, for his work in promoting Reason. He is a founding member of CFCUL, was Head of the Philosophy of Nature Sciences Research Line and scientific coordinator of the FCT Project on Philosophical Problems of Quantum Physics , already concluded.