Short Bio:
Alberto Vale is Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (DEEC) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) since 2021 and Senior Researcher at Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion (IPFN/IST) since 2008. He received the Licenciatura and Ph.D. degrees at IST in 1999 and 2005, respectively. From 1999 to 2005 he was a researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR), working on mobile robotics. From 2006 to 2008 he was Chief RD Engineer and co-founder of Albatroz Engineering S.A. From 2012 to 2017 he was responsible teacher of two classes in the graduation of Othoprosthesis course at Lisbon School of Health Technology (ESTeSL) of Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (IPL).
[CoPI] Rodrigo Ventura
ISR - IST
Rodrigo Ventura
Short Bio:
Rodrigo Ventura (Assistant Professor) received the Licenciatura (1996), M.Sc. (2000), and PhD degree (2008), in ECE
from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal. He is a (tenured) Assistant Professor at IST, and a member
of Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR). He has several publications in international journals and conferences,
on various topics intersecting Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He is founding member of the Biologically-Inspired
Cognitive Architecture society. He participated in several international and national research projects. In particular,
he was Principal Investigator of the national project AuReRo (Human-robot interaction with field robots using augmented
reality and interactive mapping, 2011-2014), and coordinator of the the IST participation in the EU LdV project USORA
(Unified Solution of Remote Access in Practical Vocational Engineering Education, 2013-2015). He is currently Principal
Investigator of the national project HARODE (Human-aware service robots for domestic environments). His current research
interests include human-robot interaction, human-aware navigation, decision-making under uncertainty, and cognitive robotics,
targeting the space and service robot application domains. He is the co-author of two national patents on innovative solutions
for robotic systems.
Bruno Gonçalves
IPFN - IST
Bruno Gonçalves
Short Bio:
My research is focused on edge physics, control and data acquisition, development of diagnostics and integration of engineering systems
for fusion devices such as JET, ITER and DEMO. My research activity involves multidisciplinary fields ranging from diagnostic development
and data analysis to project management methodologies aiming at achieving the best measurements on fusion devices.
PhD: Instituto Superior Técnico,2003 Agregação: Instituto Superior Técnico, 2012
Francisco Fonseca
IST
Francisco Fonseca
Short Bio:
Francisco Fonseca is a second year student of Aerospace Engineering at
Instituto Superior Técnico(IST), Lisbon, Portugal. Highly interested in
drones, simulation and control. Always eager to learn as well as embrace
new projects.
Norberto Catarino
IST
Norberto Catarino
Short Bio:
Norberto Catarino received the BSc in physics from the University of Porto, the MSc in Nuclear and Particle Physics and PhD in Physics Engineering from the University of Lisbon. In recent years, he has established himself in the field of ion beam techniques, focusing on plasma-facing component research. He started his research activity at CTN in 2009, working on magnetic nanolayers of wide bandgap semiconductors for spintronic applications. He specialized in the use of detector, electronic and nuclear acquisition systems. He worked in the European SPIRIT project, and gradually became involved in the research on materials for fusion reactors due to his participation in JET's work program of the Ion Beam Laboratory. He is the Portuguese Chief Scientific Investigator of a Coordinated Research Projects (CRP-F11023) from the IAEA, to provide a platform for efficient collaboration and knowledge transfer between scientists from developing and developed Member States, with a focus on the use of accelerator-based techniques for fusion related technologies.
Nuno Veiga
IST
Nuno Veiga
Short Bio:
Nuno Veiga is a final year masters' student in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico, majoring in Control, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. He is highly interested in autonomous systems, robotics and control and is eager to learn more and work hard in order to make things move on their own. His experiences include working in an autonomous Formula Student car and mapping with a drone in simulation.
LuísMarques
IST
Luís Marques
Short Bio:
Luís Marques is a PhD student in Technological Physics Engineering at the Instituto Superior Técnico. Luís completed his Master in Physics Engineering in 2011 at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, on “Comparative study of HPGe, NaI(Tl), CdZnTe detectors for Security applications and for Nuclear and Radiological threats”. Currently, he is a researcher at Centro de Investigação da Academia da Força Aérea, collaborative researcher at Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares (C2TN), remote pilot of fixed-wing Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), and participates in R&D project FRIENDS. His interest research area is related to nuclear radiation detection systems to be used in UAS.
José Corisco
C2TN - IST
José Corisco
Short Bio:
José Corisco is a biologist graduated by the Faculty of Sciences in the University of Lisbon holding an auxiliary researcher position granted by the former Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear. He has several years of experience in the fields of environmental radioactivity and experimental radioecology with participations in post-Chernobyl European funded projects related to the transfer of artificial radionuclides in the aquatic food chains. He has been recently involved in an academic and private enterprise partnership for the development of a robotic system for sediment monitoring in intertidal mudflats (http://www.introsys.eu/pt/#robotica), as a primary tool for the determination of radionuclides in estuarine environments. Other interests lay in the mobilization and bioaccumulation of uranium decay radionuclides with enhanced concentrations in stacks of industrial waste from phosphate industry and uranium mining.
Yuriy Romanets
C2TN - IST
Yuriy Romanets
Short Bio:
Since 2012 PhD degree in Physics obtained from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal.
Main research fields and activity involves: radiation protection, radiation shielding, radiation field,
radiation detection and measurements, nuclear reactor core design, ADS, transmutation, nuclear
waste management, particle accelerator and isotope production facility design, nuclear fusion,
Monte Carlo simulation etc.
Professional experience and knowledge acquired include participation and involvement in
international projects like: EUROTRANS, XT-ADS, EURISOL, HIE-ISOLDE, REWARD, GUINEVERE,
MYRTE, MYRRHA.
Large experience on simulations using Monte Carlo methods (MCNP, FLUKA) to the assessment
and analysis of the radiation field, radiation dose distribution, radiation behavior, material
properties, radiation energy distribution etc., in medical, industrial, research and environmental
fields/conditions.
Jorge Borbinha
C2TN - IST
Jorge Borbinha
Short Bio:
In 2017, I am a MSc. in Biomedical Engineering. From Mar - 2018 to Mar -
2019, I was a research fellow at Centre for Nuclear Sciences and
Technologies, IST, where I acquired skills in dosimetry, radiation
protection and Monte Carlo simulation and participated in several
projects, both at national and international level. I am now a PhD.
student in Technological Physics Engineering in IST. My main areas of
work include radiation dosimetry, radiation protection, medical physics
and Monte Carlo simulation.
Susana Sargento
IT - UAveiro
Susana Sargento
Short Bio: Susana Sargento
is an Associate Professor with “Habillitation” in the University of Aveiro and a senior researcher in the Institute of Telecommunications,
where she is leading the Network Architectures and Protocols (NAP) group.
She received her PhD in 2003 in Electrical Engineering in the University of Aveiro (with a 7 months stay in Rice University in 2000 and 2001).
She joined the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto between 2002 and 2004, and she was a Guest Faculty of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA, in August 2008, where she performed Faculty Exchange in 2010/2011.
In March 2012, Susana has co-founded a vehicular networking company, Veniam (www.veniam.com), a spin-off of the Universities of Aveiro and Porto,
which builds a seamless low-cost vehicle-based internet infrastructure. Susana is the winner of the
2016 EU Prize for Women Innovators.
Susana is also de co-coordinator of the national initiative of digital competences in the research axis
(INCoDe.2030), belongs to the evaluation committee of the
Fundo200M government co-investment and funding), and she is the Scientific Director of
CMU-Portugal Programme.
Her main research interests are in the areas of self-organized networks, in ad-hoc and vehicular network mechanisms and protocols, such as routing, mobility, security
and delay-tolerant mechanisms, resource management, and content distribution networks. She regularly acts as an Expert for European Research Programmes.
Nuno Ferreira
IT - UAveiro
Nuno Ferreira
Short Bio:
Nuno Ferreira is a M.Sc. student in Computer and Telematics Engineering in University of Aveiro.
His main interests are in the area of computer networks, security and software engineering.
Luis Pinto
IPFN - IST
Luis Pinto
Short Bio:
Luis Pinto received his masters from FEUP, Portugal in 2011, and started his PhD in the same year in the CMU|Portugal dual program.
His PhD thesis focussed on UAV communication and has obtained his degree in 2018.
Since then, he has worked on different Wireless Sensor Network projects as a PosDoc where his main interests reside.
Ana Margarida
IT - UAveiro
Ana Margarida
Short Bio:
Margarida Silva is a final-year M.Sc. student in Computer and Telematics Engineering in University of Aveiro. Her interests are in the areas of computer networks, aerial drone networks, and software and services engineering.
Diogo Carvalho
IPFN - IST
Diogo Carvalho
Short Bio:
Diogo Carvalho received his B.Sc. (2016) and M.Sc. (2018) in Engineering Physics in 2018 from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal.
For the latter he developed during his thesis, machine learning algorithms to perform tomographic reconstructions of plasmas confined inside
fusion reactors.
His research interests revolve mainly around the areas of computer vision and machine learning.
Elsa Silva
IPFN - IST
Elsa Silva
Short Bio:
Elsa Silva worked in IPFN from 2008 until 2019. She focused in quality assurance processes and activities in the nuclear fusion program, namely as
Quality Responsible in F4E grants. Graduated in Chemical Engineering in Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon in 1993. After a
two years period researching photochemical and complexometric chemical systems in Centro de Química Estrutural, Instituto Superior Técnico
worked in industry (non-metallic minerals sectors) with research, quality control and quality management responsibilities, namely Quality
Auditor. Responsibilities on the food glass-packaging sector led to complete a post-graduation course on food safety in 2005. In 2006 started
collaboration with scientific projects in Instituto Superior Técnico performing management and communication activities in support of a FP6 NEST
project Coordination.
André Reis
IT - UAveiro
André Reis
Short Bio:
André Braga Reis holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA, USA),
with a specialisation in Vehicular Networks. He has experience with the design and evaluation of delay-tolerant networks
for challenging scenarios of high node mobility. André was currently a Junior Researcher with University of Aveiro (Portugal) until 2019,
He mentored students in the areas of Wireless Networks for Aerial Drones, and Applied Machine Intelligence for Operator Networks.
Bruno Areias
IT - UAveiro
Bruno Areias
Short Bio:
Bruno Areias was with Instituto de Telecomunicações until 2020.
Pedro Teles
C2TN - IST
Pedro Teles
Short Bio:
Pedro Teles, PhD, is currently a Researcher at the at Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias Nucleares (C2TN) of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Since the completion of his PhD, he has pursued an active interest in the field of radiation protection
applied to the medical field, and Monte Carlo simulations in radiation physics.
He participates/participated in several European projects (of which some as the coordinator) and also in national (FCT) projects.
Yoeri Brouwer
IPFN - IST
Yoeri Brouwer
Short Bio:
Yoeri Brouwer got his MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and received the BSc in Engineering
Physics from IST in 2017. From February-May 2017 he did an internship at
IPFN developing code for QR code detection, and from June-September 2017
he did an internship at SiliconGate, researching Voltage Controlled
Oscillators (VCO).
Starting in October 2017, Yoeri worked in
collaboration with IPFN to develop MARIA, a Mobile Application for
Radiation Intensity Assessment. MARIA is an Android application which,
when when paired with a radiological sensor, allows the user to create a
heat map of the radioactivity of their surroundings. In October 2018
MARIA was one of the 12 finalists in the This Is APPStation challenge.
Yoeri also participated in the URSI 2017 call for papers organized by
ANACOM, and was one of the finalists of the IST Accenture Technology
Challenge 2018.
André Mourato
IT - UAveiro
André Mourato
Short Bio:
André Mourato is an enthusiastic, self-motivated and hardworking computer science student, research fellow and full stack web developer. He has participated in multiple programming competitions and is passionate about learning just as much as teaching younger students. His main interest areas are IoT and Security, although he is open to new challenges.
Gonçalo Marques
IT - UAveiro
Gonçalo Marques
Short Bio:
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Pedro Pereira
IST
Pedro Pereira
Short Bio:
Pedro Pereira is an MSc student of Aerospace Engineering at
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, and received the BSc
in 2018. He is developing a thesis where the main research
topics is aircraft control and trajectory optimization problems, namely height control and autonomous landing.
Hélder Pereira
IST
Hélder Pereira
Short Bio:
Hélder Pereira is a final year master student in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico.
He is highly interested in robotics and automation.
Collaborators
Raul Luis
IPFN - IST
Raul Luis
Short Bio:
Dr. Raul Luís completed his M.S. in Engineering Physics in 2008 and his PhD in Physics in 2014, both at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. From 2008 to 2015 he worked at the Campus Tecnológico e Nuclear of Instituto Superior Técnico and at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), developing competences in radiation physics, radiological protection, dosimetry, nuclear engineering and neutronics of accelerator-driven systems and fusion reactors, using Monte Carlo simulation tools such as MCNP and FLUKA to model the interaction of radiation with matter. He joined IPFN as Invited Auxiliary Researcher on September 2015, and since then he is responsible for the nuclear analyses performed by the Group of Engineering and Systems Integration, in the framework of ITER- and DEMO-related international projects.
Daniel Silvestre
ISR - IST
Daniel Silvestre
Short Bio:
Dr. Daniel Silvestre received his B.Sc. in Computer Networks in 2008 from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon,
Portugal, and an M.Sc. in Advanced Computing in 2009 from the Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom. In 2017,
Dr. Silvestre got his Ph.D. (with the highest honors) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the former university,
and during this period he spent three months visiting his co-supervisor (Joao Hespanha) at University of California at
Santa Barbara. Currently, Dr. Silvestre is with Institute for Systems and Robotics, at the Instituto Superior Tecnico in
Lisbon (PT), and he holds a research assistant appointment with the University of Macau. His research interests span the
fields of fault detection and isolation, distributed systems, network control systems, computer networks and randomized algorithms.
Pedro Sebastião
ISCTE
Pedro Sebastião
Short Bio:
Pedro Sebastião, Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at IST, currently lecturer at ISCTE-IUL's
Information Science and Technology Department, is Board director of AUDAX-ISCTE - Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Centre at ISCTE, responsible for the LABSLISBOA incubator and researcher at Instituto de
Telecomunicações.
His main researching interests are in monitoring, control and communications of drones, unmanned vehicles,
planning tools, stochastic process (modelling and efficient simulations), internet of things, efficient
communication systems, jamming and spoofing techniques and business models.
He has oriented several master's dissertations and doctoral theses. He is the author or co-author of more
than two hundred scientific articles and he has been responsible for several national and international
R&D&I projects. He has been an expert and evaluator of more than one hundred national and international
Civil and Defense R&D projects. He has several scientific, engineering and pedagogical awards. Also, he
has organized or co-organized more than fifty national and international scientific conferences. He planned
and developed several postgraduate courses in technologies and management, entrepreneurship and innovation
and transfer of technology and innovation. He has supported several projects involving technology transfer
and creation of start-ups and spinoffs of value to the society and market.
He developed his professional activity in the Portuguese Defense Industries, initially in the Office of Studies
and later as board director of the Quality Department of the Production of New Products and Technologies. He was
also responsible of wireless communication systems technologies in the Nokia-Siemens business Unity.
António Raimundo
ISCTE
António Raimundo
Short Bio: Antonio
obtained his master degree in 2016 from ISCTE-IUL in Computer Engineering.
Currently, he is a reseacher at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT-IUL)
and a teacher assistant of Maths in the Management undergraduate
programs.
His graduation and research interests are related to Unmanned Aerial
Systems (UAS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
He is currently a PhD student at ISCTE, where is developing and implementing a generalized
fault detection system supported by UAS and AI algorithms for industrial and non-
industrial applications in the fields of energy, infrastructures and precision agriculture.
Pedro Vaz
C2TN - IST
Pedro Vaz
Short Bio:
PhD. in High Energy Physics, from IST-Lisbon, 1991.
Currently Coordinator of the Radiological Protection and Safety Group of the
Nuclear Sciences and Technologies Center (C2TN)