Mário J. Silva is a Full Professor in Computer Science and Engineering (Information Systems) at IST and a Researcher of the Information and Decision Support Systems Laboratory (IDSS Lab) at INESC-ID. He chairs the Ethics Committee of IST and is a co-coordinator of the Health Interdisciplinary Network at U. Lisboa. His main academic interests are in Data Science and Engineering (information retrieval and text mining, biologic and geographic information integration), Health IT and Bioinformatics, Ethical and Social implications of information technology, and Social Computing.

Isabel Cristina Gonçalves graduated at the Faculdade de Psicologia (Psychology Faculty) of Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon) in 1989, in the field of Psychotherapy and Counseling.

In 2001, she completed her training as a Psychotherapist at the Associação Portuguesa de Psicoterapia Comportamental e Cognitiva – APTCC (Portuguese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy), with a thesis entitled “Psychological Counseling Services at the University context – the role of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy”. Isabel is a Specialist Psychologist in Clinical and Health Psychology, and, also, in Educational Psychology. She holds the advanced specialties of Psychotherapy and Psychological Coaching, certified by the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses – OPP).

She was a founding member of the Professional Association “Rede de Serviços de Aconselhamento Psicológico no Ensino Superior” (Network of Psychological Counseling Services in Higher Education), and she implemented and coordinated the Serviço de Apoio Psicológico (Psychological Support Service) at the Instituto Superior Técnico, between 1993 and 2006. She was the Committee Chairwoman of the OPP’s Internships from 2011 to 2014.

She founded (in 2005) and coordinates up to today the Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Académico (Academic Development Office) at Instituto Superior Técnico (before called Gabinete de Apoio ao Tutorado – Tutoring Support Office). She has published several works in her fields of interest, and she has participated in many national and international research projects. Isabel is taking her PhD at the Faculdade de Psicologia of Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon Psychology Faculty).

Alexandre Francisco is a professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and a researcher of the IDSS Laboratory of the INESC-ID. He is interested in algorithm engineering and computational science, and has been involved in several projects on computational biology, bioinformatics, graph mining, data and network analysis. He is currently also member of the Management Board of IST, as Vice-President for Academic Affairs.

Carla Patrocínio graduated in Applied Mathematics and Computing at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in 2000 and completed her Master’s degree in Data Exploration and Analysis at the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa in 2008.

She began her professional career at the IST Studies and Planning Office in 1995 and coordinated the IST Statistics and Prospective Unit between 2007 and 2014, having always been involved in several areas of activity at IST.

Currently coordinates the Tech Transfer Office of IST, which has the mission to support the Executive Board in the link between IST and society, namely through the economic valorization of the knowledge of the School in the areas of intellectual property, corporate business relations, entrepreneurship, and alumni network.

Júlia Oliveira graduated in Social Sciences, Minor in Administrative Political Science.

Head of the Post-Graduation Area of ​​the Instituto Superior Técnico, from January 2018 to the present date. Responsible for the Post-Graduation Academic Unit and Coordinator of the Lifelong Training Office, from February 2017 until December 2017. Coordinator of the Post-graduate and Advanced Training Unit of Instituto Superior Técnico, from June 2011 until January 2017. Management of the Administrative Areas (Academic Register and Front Office), interface with the Scientific Council and execution of administrative activities, from January 2005 until May 2011, at the Post-graduate and Advanced Training Unit of Instituto Superior Técnico. Execution of administrative activities in the Post-Graduate Section of Instituto Superior Técnico, from May 1990 until December 2004.

Other activities

Organization of the “PhD Open Days” event – 7 editions (considered as a good practice in IST in 2018);

Participation in juries for staff selection (as a member and as president);

Participation in seminars and workshops such as: “PRO`LABX – Introduction to the Service Design Methodology”; “General Data Protection Regulation – Impact on Public Administration 6 months after is application”; “Innovation in Public Administration Management”; “Administrative and Technological Modernization of the Universidade de Lisboa”

Participation in international projects (e.g. Project TIME Joint Thesis Defense; PhD training program (ATENAS) – E+ Strategic Partnership) and participation in Mobility under the Erasmus+ international credit mobility program at Université International de Rabat, Morocco.

Vasco Queiroga is a first-year Biological Engineering Master’s student. He was born in 2000 and lived in Évora for most of his life. In 2018 he moved to Lisbon to study at Técnico. He joined the Student Support Unit this year and has been working mainly on the Mentoring Programme (for undergraduates and master’s students) and Tenico’s Ambassadors Programme (a part of the Técnico Promotion Programme). His academic interests range from Biochemistry and Genetics to Engineering and Industrial Processes.

Denise Matos has a Post-Graduation in International Relations, a M.A. in African Studies and completed her advanced PhD training course in Human Geography, specialization in European Public Policy. Currently, she coordinates the International Affairs Area at Instituto Superior Técnico ULisboa. She is involved in several European projects with emphasis in communication, internationalization strategies and entrepreneurship. She is the National representative of IAESTE Portugal, the International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience. She has over 15 years of experience in international relations: in and outbound student mobility, international student recruitment, strategic partnerships, innovative academic programmes and student mobility issues.

Marta Bordonhos MSc in Chemical Engineering (IST, U. Lisboa).
PhD student in Chemical Engineering at IST since January 2020, studying the adsorptive separation of CO2 in hybrid porous materials in cyclic processes, under the supervision of Prof Dr Moisés Pinto (CERENA, DEQ, IST, U. Lisboa) and the co-supervision of Dr José R. B. Gomes (CICECO, DQ, U. Aveiro) in the Research Centres CERENA and CICECO.
Member of the Técnico PhD Student Club since December 2020.

José Santos-Victor received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST – Lisbon, Portugal), in the area of Computer Vision and Robotics, with a collaboration with the University of Genova. He became a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of IST in 2010. He is a researcher at the Institute of Systems and Robotics (ISR),  a research organization hosting more than 50 PhDs in a total of 150 researchers, where he founded the Computer and Robot Vision Lab – VisLab. Since January 2015, he is the president of ISR-Lisboa. He is the coordinator of the Associated Laboratory of Robotics and engineering Systems (LARSyS) home to 400+ researchers and nearly 130 PhDs, and  the director of the Mind-Brain College of the University of Lisbon, with faculty members and doctoral students across 7 different schools.
His research interests are in the areas of Computer and Robot Vision, particularly in the relationship between visual perception and  action control, biologically inspired vision and robotics, cognitive vision and visual controlled (land, air and underwater) mobile robots.
He has developed several humanoid robots for interdisciplinary research on human cognition and learning. He was responsible for the IST participation in the RobotCub project, and the design of the iCub Robot Head, covers and facial expressions and several vision and affordance-learning algorithms.
José Santos-Victor was an Associated Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and the Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and ther General Co-Chair of the IEEE ICSL-Epirob Conference in 2017. He was the IST Vice-President for International Affairs from 2006 to the beginning of 2015. He has been the Secretary General of the CLUSTER network from July 2010 to June 2012.

Jesse Thaler is a theoretical particle physicist who fuses techniques from quantum field theory and machine learning to address outstanding questions in fundamental physics. His current research is focused on maximizing the discovery potential of the Large Hadron Collider through new theoretical frameworks and novel data analysis techniques. Prof. Thaler joined the MIT Physics Department in 2010, and is currently a Professor in the Center for Theoretical Physics. He was a Miller Fellow at U.C. Berkeley from 2006 to 2009, and he received his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard. He was awarded a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2012 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2013. In 2020, Prof. Thaler became the inaugural Director of the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions.

Susana Vinga was born in Lisbon in 1975. After graduating in Mechanical Engineering from IST in 1999, she completed a PhD in Bioinformatics at ITQB (2005). From 2006-2013, she was a researcher in the KDBIO group (INESC-ID) and invited assistant professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences (NMS). Between 2013-2018 she was a Principal Investigator (Investigador FCT) at IDMEC. She is now an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (DEI) and the Dept. of Bioengineering (DBE) at IST and researcher at INESC-ID. Since 2021, she is a member of the INESC-ID Board of Directors, Vice-President of DEI, and Senator of Univ. Lisboa. Her main scientific achievements are in the area of computational and systems biology. She coordinated three national FCT projects (DynaMo, HIVCONTROL, PERSEIDS), and participated in several European projects as workpackage leader (BacHBerry – FP7, SOUND – H2020) and principal coordinator (OLISSIPO – Fostering Computational Biology Research and Innovation in Lisbon, 2021-2023, H2020 Twinning). She was granted in 2010 the Young Researcher Award of the UTL in the area of Informatics and in 2017 she was awarded the Prémio Científico da Universidade de Lisboa/CGD in the area of Computer Science and Engineering for the impact of her publications.

Jose C. Menezes is Director since 2007 of a Program in Pharmaceutical Engineering at IST University of Lisbon, covering Manufacturing Sciences & Technologies (MS&T) in the Bio/Pharmaceutical Industry.  He is IST’s Associate Professor with Full Professorship Habilitation a PhD in Biochemical Engineering and 1^st and 2^nd degrees in Chemical Engineering and Chemistry & Catalysis.

He has 4 books, more than 100 peer-reviewed papers published, aprox. 250 international conference presentations and about 80 MSc and 15 PhD theses supervised, on MS&T subjects such as Quality by Design, Risk- & Knowledge- Management, Systems Engineering. He is recipient of several national and international awards including a presidential award for innovation and excellence in academic-industrial partnerships.

Jose’s hobbies include offshore sailing, carpentry and organic farming.  He has 3 adult siblings of whom two are IST alumni.

Pedro Bizarro is co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Feedzai. Drawing on a history in academia and research, Pedro has turned his technical expertise into entrepreneurial success as he has helped to develop Feedzai’s industry-leading artificial intelligence platform to fight fraud. Pedro has been an official member of the Forbes Technology Council, a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a Fulbright Fellow, and has worked with CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Pedro holds a Computer Science PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

António is a Mechanical Engineer from IST (class 2012) by background and has a MBA from Columbia Business Scholl in New York. António has been with McKinsey & Company for almost 9 years having worked in multiple industries (from oil&gas to banking), functions (from strategy to digital) and geographies (from Dubai to Angola) and is now specialized in counseling companies in the insurance and banking space around their distribution strategy and digital innovation and business building. In parallel, António has the pleasure to lead recruiting for IST at McKinsey since 2 years ago. António loves to play padel, football and swim.

Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico with a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering concluded in 2004. His research work has been focused in the following areas: i) advanced characterization of materials; ii) optimization of manufacturing processes; iii) product development (mainly using natural materials), with a multifunctional nature, especially applying “design for manufacturing” models integrated with the final application. His main research projects (either at national and internacional level) are mainly developed with industry and originate new materials and products that are currently being launched into the market as part of each innovation strategy. More recently, using large-scale industrial data acquisition strategies, it is involved in the modelling of some manufacturing processes, whose results are being used as innovative logical systems, allowing optimization and introducing new technologies, especially in the some traditional, but highly valuable, industries. He is the author of more than 100 international publications and participated as a fellow or coordinator of more than 15 R&D projects in partnership with companies, half of which were carried out within the scope of the European Commission. As Vice-President of Técnico, he is currently heading the general operations of the school and coordinating the corporate relationships of IST, along with the development of Técnico+ (the new strategy for Pos-grad & Professional Education).

Filipa Borrego is the Innovation Management Coordinator at INESC ID, facilitating the participation of the three INESCs in Lisbon (INOV, INESC ID and INESC MN) in European projects. She is also an invited professor of the Postgraduate program in Science and Technology Management and Policy at NOVA FCSH. She was a National Expert for the Committee of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the European Framework Programme Horizon 2020 and a National Contact Point for several themes. Filipa has been an evaluator for several European programmes (Horizon 2020, Fulbright, COST Actions and European Economic Area) and, in 2019, she was a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group to assess the progress of Research Infrastructures towards implementation and long-term sustainability. Filipa was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the IC2 Institute of the University of Texas, Austin, USA, where she worked on methodologies to develop, license and/or commercialize early-stage technologies coming out of European projects.

Filipa graduated in 1999 and received her MSc degree in 2002, both in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. In 2002, she was a trainee at the European Space Agency (ESA) in the Netherlands until 2004, when she started her PhD in Computer Engineering at Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. In 2008 after her PhD defence, she took a position as a researcher at the Ultra Low Power DSP group at Holst Centre / IMEC, the Netherlands, where she stayed until 2010. In 2010, she returned to Portugal where she started her career as Research Manager at NOVA FCT.

Dr. Marta Fajardo holds a PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique & Instituto Superior Técnico (2001) and is Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). After her PhD in Plasma Atomic Physics in 2001, she was a post-doc at CNRS in France where she studied X-ray lasers and their applications, returning to Portugal in 2003. Her research is focused on the development and use of Ultra-bright X-ray sources. She uses these sources to study Matter in Extreme Conditions such as High Energy Density Plasmas, developing new diagnostics in X-ray Imaging such as X-ray holography, Coherent Diffraction Imaging and 3D imaging. These studies have benefited from several funding grants, including a NEST-adventure and a FET-open grant. She has been an active member of the Beam, Plasmas and Inertial Fusion (BPIF) Community for many years, being the Chair of the BPIF Section of the European Physical Society – Division of Plasma Physics in 2017-2020. She is presently Vice-Chair of the International S&T Advisory Committee of ELI-ERIC, the European Infrastructure for ultra-intense lasers. 

Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico (retired) – University of Lisbon, since 1985 (Structural Engineering and Built Heritage).

Is a member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering; of the Ordem dos Engenheiros (Institute of Engineers); President of the Jury of the Gulbenkian Heritage Prize – Tereza e Vasco Vilalva; and member of the Foundation and of the Advisory Council of “Festival Terras Sem Sombra”.

Is also Chairman of the General Assemblies of the Portuguese Association for Steel and Composite Construction (CMM); and of the association “Estudos Gerals do Alvito”.

Some previous positions

President of the Portuguese Institute for Cultural Heritage (IPPC – Ministry of Culture – 1987-1990); representant of the Ministry of Enviroment on the Comissariat and the Monitoring Committee of the Urbanization Plan ́of EXPO’98 (1993-95); CEO of Parques de Sintra – Monte da Lua SA (2006-2014); member of the Architectural and Archaeological Section of the National Council for Culture (2012-2016); Chairman of the Board of the Cultural Centre of the Belém Foundation (November 2104 – March 2016).

Was also President of the Portuguese Road Authority (Junta Autónoma de Estradas) and of the Institute of Portuguese Roads (Ministry of Public Works 1998-2000); non-executive member of the Board of Brisa, SA (2004-2009).

External member of the General Council of the University of Évora (2017-2021).

Decorations na Awards

Received the Order of Infante Dom Henrique – Grand Officer (2014); the Gold Medal of the Municipality of Sintra (2012); and the Silver Medal of Tourist Merit (2009).

Dedicated Service to Heritage

Special Mention of Europa Nostra 2021: Dedicated Service to Heritage.

João Pedro Conde received his Licenciatura (BSE) in Chemical Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1984. In 1986 and 1989 he received, respectively, a MA and a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. Between 1989 and 1990 he was an IBM post-doctoral fellow at Yorktown Heights. He is currently a full professor and president of the Department of Bioengineering. In 2009 he was elected corresponding-member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon.

He is co-responsible for the Thin Film MEMS and BioMEMS research group and a director of INESC Microsystems and Nanotechnologies. He has advised more than 20 PhD thesis and 70 master’s theses. He has participated in 27 Portuguese research projects (7 as PI/coordinator) and 8 European research projects and networks. He has participated in 11 bilateral and multilateral collaborative research projects.

João Pedro Conde has been a panel member of the European Research Council (2016-present); a member of the European Science Foundation Temporary Expert Committee on Materials Science and Engineering (MatSEEC) (2009-2014); a member of the Panel for Engineering and Computer Sciences of EURYI (Young European Investigators Awards) in 2006 and 2007; was nominated by the Portuguese Science Foundation (Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia) to the Physical Sciences and Engineering Standing Committee (PESC) of the European Science Foundation (ESF), August 98-04 (between 2001 and 2004, he was member of the PESC Core Group and PESC representative in the EURESCO Committee); was member of the board which grants Ph.D., M.S.E., Post-doctoral and Invited Scientist grants in the area of Materials Science and Engineering for the Portuguese Science Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia), January 1998-May 2011 and Coordinator of the panel between June 2010 and May 2011.

José Fernandes Vasconcelos received the Licenciatura and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, Portugal, in 2003 and 2010, respectively. Since joining DEIMOS in 2009, he has gathered a 15+ years of experience in the fields of Autonomous Navigation, Robust Control, Fault Detection, Sensor Fusion and GNSS algorithms for public and private customers such as ESA, GSA, Airbus, and Thales. He has also 6+ years of experience as Project Manager in waterfall and agile projects, in multi-site offices, in the areas of Active Debris Removal, Air Traffic Control and Management, for international customers such as ESA, NATS, and Aerothai. He is currently Project and Technical Manager at Deimos Engenharia, with main responsibility of leading the delivery of Fault Detection Isolation and Recovery (FDIR) and of Rendezvous Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC) for Active Debris Removal (ADR) in Clearspace-1 mission.

André contributes to the design of Amazon’s European fulfilment network, focusing on Middle Mile logistics. Additionally, he partners with the MIT Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory to develop research on Last Mile logistics. His research interest is the evaluation of technologies/policies impacting logistics using large-scale agent-based simulations. He has a PhD in Transportation Systems and a MSc in Complex Transport Infrastructure Systems from Instituto Superior Técnico, and BSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management from the University of Bolton.

CEO & Co founder of Planetiers. Finished his Master Degree on Biological Engineering in 2014. After working as an intern on an energy R&D laboratory and a Biofuel Unity in two multinational companies, realized that he wanted to create his own projects and become one of the major agents for sustainable transformation. In 2017, being already a CEO and co-founder of an educational game project for schools, he created Planetiers – an online marketplace exclusively for sustainable products and solutions. Since then, he made his life goal to keep promoting global sustainable transformation developing new platforms and speaking in schools, conferences and all kind of international events. Since 2019, his company Planetiers has been one of the co-producers of the event Planetiers World Gathering and co-leaders of a transformational program for companies and municipalities called Planetiers New Generation.

Sérgio has 30 years of experience, across four continents, in high-tech companies, in the development of technological products and services, and the support of critical telecommunications and ICT operations for almost all the markets sectors.

In 2000, he joined Portugal Telecom (PT, a Fortune 500 company) as VP and board member of PT Prime (corporate market leader) and after VP and board member of PT Information Systems. At PT-SI, he had several responsibilities namely the ICT service management for the PT Group companies. PT supported all the ICT and Telecommunications of the event, including cyber security and the support to UEFA’s tournament website, and the new “Follow My Team” tickets. He was subsequently the corporate market product and service development head and the IT Service Management director of Tier-1 corporate clients, managing their critical telecommunications and ICT operations.

Since 2016, Sérgio has been Tech-Director at Deloitte. He started as head of Telecom Networks Operations within the TEE-Deloitte Telecom Engineering Centre. After that, he led Smart Cities product and business development and is currently the Global Smart Cities asset architecture coordinator and member of the strategic advisory board of the Smart Cities Global Centre of Excellence, turning Benfica Stadium into a Smart Place.

Cátia co-founded X&Y Partners, a boutique management consulting company, specialized in commercial and technical advisory for a broad range of industries, including telecoms, pharma, life sciences retail and energy. She has a degree in Biological Engineering, a MSc. in Biotechnology, both from Instituto Superior Técnico and a MBA from Insead. Cátia started her career at the Arthur D. Little’s offices in Lisbon and has more than 15 years of professional experience.

Eduardo Alves is Full Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa. He is Deputy Director of Laboratory of Accelerators and Radiation Technologies and member of the Board of Directors of Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear where coordinates the Group of Materials Processing and Characterization using ion beam technologies.

His scientific activity is focused on the study of charge particle interactions with solids with particular emphasis on radiation defects and doping processes in wide band gap materials and nanostructures. He co-authored over 750 publications in reference journals with an h factor of 51 (ResearcherID P-5031-2019).

Received the Award “Estímulo à Excelência” by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2004) and the Silver Medal of Scientific Merit from the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (2005).

João Ramôa Correia is Full Professor at the Civil Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon. He holds a 5-year degree in Civil (Structural) Engineering, a MSc in Construction and a PhD in Civil Engineering. He teaches courses related with Construction Technology and Building Pathology and Rehabilitation. He coordinates a research group (CORE Lab) at IST, which conducts research, development and teaching activities on advanced fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite systems for civil engineering applications. The main research areas of the CORE Lab are the mechanical behaviour of FRP composites systems, connection technology, long term performance, durability, fire behaviour and sustainability. João Ramôa Correia is member of the Editorial Board of Journal of Composites for Construction (Associate Editor), Composite Structures, Fire Safety Journal and Advances in Structural Engineering (Associate Editor). In 2012, he was the recipient of the IABSE Prize and in 2016 he received the IIFC Distinguished Young Researcher Award.

Isabel Cristina Gonçalves graduated at the Faculdade de Psicologia (Psychology Faculty) of Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon) in 1989, in the field of Psychotherapy and Counseling.

In 2001, she completed her training as a Psychotherapist at the Associação Portuguesa de Psicoterapia Comportamental e Cognitiva – APTCC (Portuguese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapy), with a thesis entitled “Psychological Counseling Services at the University context – the role of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy”. Isabel is a Specialist Psychologist in Clinical and Health Psychology, and, also, in Educational Psychology. She holds the advanced specialties of Psychotherapy and Psychological Coaching, certified by the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association (Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses – OPP).

She was a founding member of the Professional Association “Rede de Serviços de Aconselhamento Psicológico no Ensino Superior” (Network of Psychological Counseling Services in Higher Education), and she implemented and coordinated the Serviço de Apoio Psicológico (Psychological Support Service) at the Instituto Superior Técnico, between 1993 and 2006. She was the Committee Chairwoman of the OPP’s Internships from 2011 to 2014.

She founded (in 2005) and coordinates up to today the Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Académico (Academic Development Office) at Instituto Superior Técnico (before called Gabinete de Apoio ao Tutorado – Tutoring Support Office). She has published several works in her fields of interest, and she has participated in many national and international research projects. Isabel is taking her PhD at the Faculdade de Psicologia of Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon Psychology Faculty).

Luis M. Correia was born in Portugal, in 1958.  He received the Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from IST (University of Lisbon) in 1991, where he is currently a Professor in Telecommunications, with his work focused on Wireless/Mobile Communications in the areas of propagation, channel characterisation, radio networks, traffic, and applications, with the research activities developed in the INESC-ID institute.  He has acted as a consultant for the Portuguese telecommunications operators and regulator, besides other public and private entities, and has been in the Board of Directors of a telecommunications company.  Besides being responsible for research projects at the national level, he has participated in 31 projects within European frameworks, having coordinated 6 and taken leadership responsibilities at various levels in many others.  He has supervised more than 200 M.Sc./Ph.D. students, having edited 6 books, contribute to European strategic documents, and authored more than 500 papers in international and national journals and conferences, for which served also as a reviewer, editor and board member.  Internationally, he was part of 36 Ph.D. juries, and 63 research projects and institutions evaluation committees for funding agencies in 12 countries and the European Commission.  He has been the Chairman of Conference, of the Technical Programme Committee and of the Steering Committee of various major conferences, besides other several duties.  He was a National Delegate to the COST Domain Committee on ICT.  He was active in the European Net!Works platform, by being an elected member of its Expert Advisory Group and of its Steering Board, and the Chairman of its Working Group on Applications, and was also elected to the European 5G PPP Association.  He has launched and served as Chairman of the IEEE Communications Society Portugal Chapter.

Title:”How to Prepare an Excellent Presentation (or at Least an Acceptable One)?”

The workshop addresses the guidelines on how to prepare an excellent presentation of one’s work, which can range from a paper in a conference to a thesis before a committee.  The workshop intends to be very interactive, so participants are requested to send in advance examples of presentations they have previously given, one of them being chosen to start the workshop.  Afterwards, one presents the key aspects to take into consideration when preparing a presentation, considering structure of information and identification of the audience’s expectations and constraints.  Then, a detailed view on how to prepare the actual presentation information is addressed, accounting for all existing recommendations.  The logistics involved in giving a presentation are also shown.  The initial presentation is given again, modified according to the recommendations, in order to highlight the diffenreces.  Conclusions are presented at the end.

Head of Communications at Instituto Superior Técnico. Lecturer in Science Communication and Social Media for Scientists at FCSH NOVA and Universidade Nova de Lisboa Doctoral School. Coordinator of science radio show 90 Segundos de Ciência. Founder and current President of Portuguese Science Communicators Network SciComPT.

Former Head of Communications at ITQB NOVA (2016-2019), former Director at Centro Ciência Viva de Sintra (2014-2016), former researcher in Promotion and Administration of Science and Technology (2012-2015).

Title: “Science Communication for Researchers”

“Science isn’t finished unless it is communicated”, as stated by Sir Mark Walport translates in a very simple way that doing research isn’t an end to itself. Until the knowledge created in the research units is translated into something meaningful for lay audiences it hasn’t yet fulfilled its purpose. We will discuss ways that can be used by researchers to better convey their messages to the non experts, be it fundamental or applied science, and do some simple exercises to get PhD students started down this path.

Title: “Social Media for Researchers”

In the last decade, online tools and social media have exploded in popularity and usage. Science has to reach such diverse audiences and make itself heard among misinformation, fake news and pseudoscience, it has to get people where they are with interesting and reliable content. Not to do it would be a waste of opportunity. Also, using social media provides the possibility to have society interact directly with the scientific community, breaking down communication barriers and promoting close interaction that fosters trust which is the first step to have a fruitful connection. We will explore the social media landscape and its potential for scientists to communicate their science and comment on current themes, and do some practical exercises, from a paper to a tweet.

João is an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, Portugal. He has a PhD in Computer Science and has been doing research in Distributed Systems ate INESC-ID, with a main focus on the mobile computing.

Title:”LaTeX 101 – A soft introduction to scientific typesetting”

Title: “A practical introduction to Deep Learning”

Having been in the spotlight for a few years, deep learning techniques have attracted a lot of attention, not only from academics and engineers, but also from everyday people.

Whether capable of outperforming humans in complex tasks or even generating fake content, almost indistinguishable from the real one, these techniques have developed a certain mystique around them, sometimes even misleading people to believe they represent artificial brains learning like ours do.

In this workshop, we will cover what deep learning techniques are, how they differ from traditional machine learning approaches and how they can be applied to real problems.

Social Media Manager and Science Communicator at Técnico Lisboa. Founding member of Associação SciCom.Pt, a Portuguese network of science communicators, for several times in the organization committee and scientific committee of the SciCom.PT Annual Congress. Previous Experience: Institutional and Science Communication at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Associação Viver a Ciência, Comunicar Ciência and Sociedade das Ciências Médicas. Degree in Social Communication and a Master in Science Communication.