Patrícia Gonçalves

Patrícia Carla Serrano Gonçalves (born 1971) is a Portuguese physicist, politician and member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the LIVRE party, she was elected to represent Lisbon at the 2025 legislative election.

Early life Gonçalves was born in 1971 in Barreiro. She has a degree in technological physics engineering and a doctorate in physics from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST).

Career Gonçalves is a professor in IST's Department of Physics and a researcher at the Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particles Physics (LIP). She also coordinates a group that develops applications for space exploration in association with the European Space Agency and other European scientific institutes and companies. She was a candidate for LIVRE at the 2019, 2022 and 2024 legislative elections in Lisbon but was not elected. She was elected to the Assembly of the Republic at the 2025 legislative election.

Personal life Gonçalves has lived in Lisbon since 2003 and has two children.