MIT Portugal Yearbook 2016 by MIT Portugal Program

MIT Portugal Program

Directors Bruce Tidor, (Director at MIT) Pedro Arezes (National Director)

Executive Director

Sílvia Castro (Portugal)

Director of Research & Research Scientist

Christian Prothmann (MIT)

Assistant Director for Administration Jennifer Kratochwill (MIT)

Education Director

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Leadership

Mariana Carmo (Portugal)

Project Manager

Federico Cismondi (MIT)

Communication Officer

Douglas Hart (MIT) João Bigotte (Portugal) Nuno Arantes-Oliveira (Portugal)

Director of Industry Program

João Fumega (Portugal)

Ana Quaresma (Portugal)

Senior Administrative Assistant

Flavia Cardarelli (MIT)

Program Operating Committee (Portugal) António Gomes Martins António Pais Antunes Elsa Henriques Francisco Pires João Crespo Joaquim Sampaio Cabral Jorge Pinho de Sousa Luís Picado Santos Manuel Matos Manuel Nunes da Ponte Pedro Arezes MIT Representatives to Program Committees (MIT) Bob Armstrong Bruce Tidor Christopher Zegras Kristala Prather

Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education

MIT Portugal: towards a new decade The MIT Portugal partnership was launched in 2006 through a set of three main structured areas of research and education (Bioengineering Systems, Sustainable Energy and Transportation Systems, and Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing), as a result of an initial assessment study developed by MIT scholars in Portugal, open to all Portuguese universities (2006-2007). The program considered two distinct but continuing phases (2007-2011; 2011-2016) and it has been mainly conducted on the basis of master and PhD programs (jointly offered by several Portuguese Universities) in close relationship with the development of joint collaborative research projects involving MIT and Portuguese researchers and industry in Portugal. In addition, it has been associated with a range of innovation and technology initiatives, resulting in a series of entrepreneurial projects and new technology-based business initiatives. Overall, it promoted a new set of diversified networks of opportunity for several hundred young and senior researchers in Portugal and at MIT, together with a unique set of relationships among Portuguese Universities and MIT. It positioned Portugal as a scalable living laboratory, making use of test bed developments and demonstrations to help design and test systems, new products and modeling capabilities for markets worldwide. In addition, it got a considerable international recognition by the way the internationalization and specialization path of Universities is understood as a key element in a new era of international affairs, where governments and industry intervene through knowledge. After a decade of a structured MIT Portugal joint venture, it is time for Portugal, the Portuguese Universities and MIT to deepen a mutual assessment understanding of the impact of the Program, clarifying mutual benefits and the potential common interest to further develop and continuing the partnerships for a new decade. Above all, it requires better understanding that structured international relationships may act as agents of change if associated with activities that are fundamentally different from the traditional role of universities, involving, most of the times various forms of social and economic appropriation of knowledge together with the development of new research frontiers. It also requires understanding the nature of international cooperation beyond the exporting/ importing of â&#x20AC;&#x153;academic servicesâ&#x20AC;? in all the institutions involved. In addition, it clearly needs to bring new challenges in terms of the necessary institutional integrity universities need to preserve and foster to better educate future generations in an increasingly globalized society. The main challenge is in our collective ability to guide this and other strategic global partnerships towards the development of a sound and scientifically relevant research-based agenda at an international level, in close association with the opening-up of new networks of opportunity far beyond the boundaries of MIT and Portugal. It is under this context that I believe we should focus our attention for the coming decade in promoting new research areas of emerging international relevance, given priority to the strategic Atlantic positioning of Portugal and the joint employment of doctorates in Portugal, together with the advancement of post-graduate education and research in a way to promote new frontiers of knowledge in emerging themes worldwide.

Paulo Ferrão President of the Board of Directors, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

A decade of achievements opening a path for new challenges We live challenging times, characterized by an increasing disparity among countries and entire regions, the emergence of new market economies, of new industrial leaders, and above all, of new science and technologydriven powers in an increasingly global world, in which markets and information circulate at a growing velocity. This movement can only be successfully approached by investing significantly in higher education, science and technology, an effort which has been highly fruitful across the world. This context has created the opportunity for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Portugal Program to emerge in 2006, and to become a role model in searching for “new solutions”, those that can no longer be copied from others and ought to be diverse and include special features, as they need to be designed for complexity, uncertainty and local flavors, following an “engineering systems” architecture, which addresses modeling, design and management of large and complex socio-technical systems making use of combined approaches from engineering, management and social sciences. The MIT Portugal Program enabled the involvement of multiple stakeholder perspectives and research to balance quantitative and qualitative arguments while maintaining scientific rigor – this has been the recipe for the success of the program over the last 10 years, with many success stories of entrepreneurship, university-enterprise collaborations and above all coined by the individual pathways of our over one thousand students from all over the world, that experienced many metamorphoses - induced by the unique MIT ecosystem. Many of these pathways do offer their individual tribute to Fernando Pessoa´s poem: “There is a time when we need to take off our old clothes that still hold the shape of our body and forget our paths that always took us to the same places. This is the time of journeys, and if we do not take it, we will stay forever at the margin of ourselves”, our alumni and their metamorphoses are there to make Fernando Pessoa poem alive – and this was the major achievement of the MIT Portugal Program! The MIT Portugal Program has indeed accomplished great achievements during the last 10 years, but the world continues to progress and the new challenges ahead call for the metamorphsis of the program itself. Now, as 10 years ago, we need the universities to come forward with new ideas, to have the students engaged in new challenges, in new high impact projects contributing to our socioeconomic development – the MIT Portugal Program will certainly build on what has already been achieved but should also explore new journeys. Whatever the journeys, they will always be journeys of ambitious and determined people, guided by knowledge and new ideas, so I am sure that now, as in the past, the best is yet to come!

AntĂłnio M. Cunha President of Council of Rectors of Portuguese Universities

A decade of achievements There are many and very good reasons to celebrate the MIT-Portugal Program (MPP), recognizing its achievements, distinguishing players and sharing success and good practices. In science and education, the celebrations are also moments to project the future. The MPP figures are impressive in number of PhD and master students, publications and bilateral interactions between MIT and Portuguese Universities, as well as entrepreneurship projects and engagement with Portuguese and worldwide companies. Research-coupled education in engineering has been a well-defined target of the program and completely overcame in innovative courses such as bioengineering, sustainable energy systems, design and manufacturing and transportation systems. The hundreds of Portuguese students that benefited from an immersion in MIT environment and of the network established with colleagues from other countries and professors from different institutions, experienced a remarkable education and training program and their impact in different companies around the world is already evident. In fact, MPP is recognized as an MIT benchmark in international collaboration and the image of Portugal, as country committed with the scientific development and with world class engineering education, was significantly reinforced. These are important and peculiar achievements of the program that have been revealed by several reports, publications and conference presentations. As Rector of one of the universities involved in MPP and President of the Portuguese Rectors Conference I do think that, on the top of all those achievements, the institutional development induced by the program should also be highlighted. The contact of senior professors and deans of Portuguese universities led to the improvement of institutional practices, namely in scientific managing and in the industrial liaison. Furthermore, about 100 Portuguese junior professors profited from internships at MIT, which is extremely relevant for the development of their academic careers. In fact, these ten years should be celebrated and the key personalities in this success should be acknowledged. We should show our gratitude to Prof. Manuel Heitor and the deceased Minister Mariano Gago for their wisdom and decision in establishing such a venture, to Paulo FerĂŁo, Dan Ross and Dava Newman, former directors of the program, for their leadership of perseverance. We are also indebted to all the professors, researchers and students that with their talent and work built an amazing and unique scientific and academic partnership. This is also the moment to thank and support those that with their vision and work are already building the future of the program: Minister Manuel Heitor, President of FCT Paulo FerrĂŁo and the MIT Program Directors Bruce Tidor and Pedro Arezes. We do believe they will develop a new and even better dimensions in upcoming MIT-Portugal Program.

Pedro Arezes & Bruce Tidor Directors of the MIT Portugal Program

10 years of MPP setting our eyes on the future A yearbook is essentially a memory of the past. However, this 2016 edition of the yearbook has a special flavor, as it also commemorates the first decade of the MIT Portugal Program (MPP). This international strategic partnership started in 1996, and it has created not only the PhD and Masters programs referred to in this book but also many other relevant, collaborative, flagship initiatives––too many to be enumerated here. Yet even as this yearbook serves as a registry of the past decade of activity of the MPP education, research, and innovation programs, it also represents a milestone in the development of the MPP. Accordingly, the book is a showcase for the main achievements of these programs, clearly expressed by the impressive list of brilliant alumni and their projects. But one should see this as symbolic of one of the most important achievements––the creation of a community, a community of people sharing common goals and values. This book highlights this amazing community. In this MPP 10th yearbook foreword, we welcome the opportunity to express our gratitude to all past Directors of the Program and to appreciate their remarkably positive and intelligent leadership––this includes Professor Paulo Ferrão, who was the national director of MIT Portugal during this decade, and the directors at MIT, Professor Daniel Roos and Professor Dava Newman. We would also like to thank those who were involved in the creation and design of this ambitious initiative––members of the Portuguese Government, Minister Mariano Gago and Minister Manuel Heitor, as well as the FCT and the Portuguese Rectors, through the involvement of CRUP and its President Antonio Cunha. Finally, our thanks are also due to all the coordination staff, faculty, supervisors, researchers, industry, and institutional partners, and to all the students involved in the program, working for its foremost success, as well as everyone else involved in the project, both from Portugal and the United States. During the past decade, MPP has had many achievements supported by the work of all the involved stakeholders. Together we continue to grow, demonstrating the benefits of this continuous partnership for the Portuguese universities and MIT, for its industrial partners, for FCT, the Portuguese government, and ultimately for Portugal. This partnership enabled numerous publications, prizes, and patents. In conjunction with positive effects on innovation in established industries and companies, as well as in emerging areas and with start-ups, both with the potential to produce long-term growth and stability to the Portuguese economy and to tie it to the global economic ecosystem. With this investment we have had tremendous impact, and will continue to do so in the future, including the establishment of graduate programs that are self-sustaining, the acceleration of integrated and applied research, the training of people and building of relationships, which will continue to be beneficial for decades to come. Our future needs to build on these strengths, achievements, and relationships, while investing in new areas and with new partners to extend our effects to up-and-coming technologies and the catalysis of new industrial initiatives. With the fading of the second stage of the program, we will try to consolidate the MPP as a strategic and successful international program., continuously working to establish networks amongst institutions and people. Of course, we will have to deal with some uncertainty but as referenced by Matt Damon, a Cambridge born actor, during his MIT commencement speech in 2016 – in research as in life, the point is try to eliminate our blind spots, of things that keep us from grasping the bigger and important picture. However, while working together we will be able to eliminate those blind spots and focus on the bigger picture and move forward this partnership to a new and promising stage.

15 Introduction 23 Bioengineering Systems 31 Bioengineering Systems Doctoral Program 59 Bioengineering Systems PhD Alumni 77 Bioengineering Systems EM Alumni 81 Sustainable Energy Systems 91 Sustainable Energy Systems Doctoral Program 135 Sustainable Energy Systems PhD Alumni 151 Sustainable Energy Systems Executive Masters 153 Sustainable Energy Systems EM Alumni 169 Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing 177 Leaders for Technical Industries Doctoral Program 199 Leaders for Technical Industries PhD Alumni 211 Technology Management Enterprise EM Alumni 215 Transportation Systems 223 Transportation Systems Doctoral Program 247 Transportation Systems Doctoral Program PhD Alumni 257 Complex Transport Infrastructure System EM Alumni

MIT Portugal: 10 years engineering the future In 2016, the MIT Portugal Program is celebrating 10 years and celebrating its biggest achievement: the students. The MIT Portugal Program was created with the goal to strengthen the country’s knowledge base and international competitiveness through the investment in people, knowledge, and ideas in innovative technology sectors. Funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), over the years the Program has also received private funding for research and scholarships, and conquered competitive funding for its Doctoral Programs. Formed as a strategic international partnership between Portuguese universities and research centers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and multiple partners from industry and government, the program has groomed almost 1000 students, seen the birth of almost 20 startups and attracted candidates from 30 countries. It has strengthened research collaborations between participating universities, supported the development of products and policy and become a strategic partner to companies. In 2013, MPP was renewed for an additional period of five years, following a positive external review and overwhelming support from university leaders and faculty in Portugal. The Program focuses on developing integrated research activities in university-industry partnerships, creating value and contributing to sustainable economic growth through the development of new knowledge based products and services. The success of this strategy requires a critical mass of highly educated young professionals and researchers, motivated toward engagement in entrepreneurship. Program participants bring together university and industry requirements and research at national and international levels. MPP graduates can act as change agents, combining deep, innovative scientific and technical background with real world skills in order to bring new technologies and systems to global markets. MPP was designed around four scientific focus areas with an engineering systems core: bioengineering systems, engineering design and advanced manufacturing, sustainable energy systems, and transportation systems. The Program has established eight graduate educational programs (four Masters and four PhD), awarded jointly by the participating Portuguese universities and involving Portuguese and MIT faculty members. The four MPP doctoral programs are supported from the competitive funding scheme (PD-F Program) promoted by FCT that secures ten PhD studentships per program per year. Their curricula emphasize innovation and entrepreneurship activities, offered to all students of all areas. These early experiences and connections benefit PhD candidates as they continue into the phase of building intellectual structures and research objectives. The program has produced more than a thousand scientific papers and many contributions to international conferences. In addition, MPP has influenced many people and institutions outside the program, producing significant cultural change within Portugal.

Overall and until 2016, the MPP has enrolled 986 students (741 PhD and 245 Masters) at participating Portuguese universities. Of these, 214 PhDs and 215 Masters have graduated under the MPP Educational component, setting the stage for a sizeable and strong Alumni network around the globe.

FIG. 1

MPP PhD and Masters Graduates around the Globe.

To date, MPP has received 3110 PhD candidatesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; applications, and has an average acceptance rate of 21.2%. Moreover, MPP attracts many students from outside Portugal. and has received PhD applications from 30 different nationalities, with the number of international applicants averaging 50.9%.

Applications to MPP PhD Programs (2007-2015) 600

N. of PhD applications

500 400 300 200 100 0 2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Year BIO

LTI

SES

DPTS

TOTAL

Average 1st phase/2nd phase

Applications to MPP PhD Programs (2007-2015).

FIG. 2

Portuguese and International applications to MPP PhD Programs (2007-2015) 500 450

N. of students

400 350

257

300 250 200

139

219

170

50 0

225

163

150 100

239

2007

2008

108 2009

149 2010

189

159 157

131

140

2011

2012

199

216

210

2013

2014

2015

Class year PT

FIG. 3

INT

Portuguese and International applications to PhD Programs (2007-2015).

Students enrolled in MPP’s PhD programs per academic year 100 90 N. of students

80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 Pre 2007- 2007-2008 2008-2009 2009-2010 2010-2011 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2008 Class year PhD SES

FIG. 4

PhD BIO

PhD EDAM-LTI

PhD DPTS

Students enrolled in MPP’s PhD programs per academic year. Note: Pre 2007-2008 refers to students admitted before 2007-2008 to predating programs that were transferred to DPTS.

Of the 214 MPP PhD Alumni, 57% continued their professional path in Portugal, and 43% opted for a career abroad1. After the completion of the PhD, the majority of the graduates continued to work within academia and 51% of the Alumni, both in Portugal and abroad, remain connected with universities. Reflecting the diversity of research institutes and Universities of their PhD Advisors, MPP PhD Alumni identify themselves as postdoctoral researchers, researchers, and professors at prestigious academic centres around the world. MPP PhDs contribute to the formation of leaders with unique knowledge and a global perspective, including a direct connection to the development of technology and its application. A growing number of the PhD research projects have been developed within an industry context. PhD candidates have conducted their research projects in a diverse array of industrial affiliates, including Portuguese and international companies such as Adira, Ajc, Altakitin, Brisa, Caetanobus, Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, Celoplás, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Colep, Continental, Crioestaminal S.A, Efacec, Finertec Energia, Galp, Hovione, Iberoleff, Innocore Pharmaceuticals, Laborial, Mobiag, Petrotec, Portugal Telecom, Rave, Refer, Rolls-Royce, Sata, Simoldes Plásticos, Soprefa, Tap, Transdev, USA Rail Administration, and Zipcar. Currently, 43% of the MPP PhD Alumni work outside academia in several fields of expertise, demonstrating the multifaceted ability of the PhD programs in preparing their graduates to succeed and excel within the work force (response rate of 85%).

Results based on a survey conducted by the MPP with a response rate of 85%

PhD Alumni employment location

PhD Alumni employment sector

43.13% 47.20% 52.80%

56.88%

FIG. 5

Academia

INT

57 % of the MPP PhD Graduates continue their professional careers in Portugal, while 43% are now abroad.

Industry

53% of the MPP PhD graduates continued their professional careers connected to the Academia while 47 % have opt for other professional paths.

FIG. 6

MPP has also developed and implemented four Executive Master Degree programs, namely a Executive Masters in Technology a Management Enterprise (TME), Executive Masters in Sustainable Energy Systems (SES), Master of Science in Complex Transport Infrastructure Systems (CTIS), and a Executive Masters in Bioengineering (BIO) program.

Students enrolled in MPPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Master programs per academic year 60

N. of students

50 40 30 20 10 0

2007-2008

2008-2009

2009-2010

2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

2014-2015

2015-2016

Class year Masters SES

FIG. 7

Masters TME

Masters CTIS

Masters BIO

Students enrolled in MPPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Executive Master programs per academic year.

These degree programs are composed of an intensive 12-15 month curriculum and have been widely recognized by business executives and candidates from prestigious schools in Portugal and abroad. In most cases, they are developed in close connection with areaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PhD, matching the first year of those Programs. Classes are carried out in evening schedules, as many of the students are also professionals in their chosen fields. MPP masters have attracted both recent graduates and mid-career professionals aiming to develop an entrepreneurial spirit and to extend their professional and academic networks. Master graduates acquire the tools to play leadership roles and develop new business opportunities. As of 2015, 215 Executive Master students have successfully graduated. The majority of the MPP EM graduates is working in Portugal (70%) and in sectors not related with Academia (82%) (results based on a survey conducted by the MPP with a response rate of 75%).

EM Alumni employment location

EM Alumni employment sector 18.40%

30.86%

69.14% 81.60% PT

FIG. 8

INT

70 % of the MPP EM Graduates continue their professional careers in Portugal, while 30% are now abroad.

Academia

FIG. 9

Industry

18% of the MPP EM graduates continued their professional careers connected to the Academia while 82 % pursued other professional paths.

Now in its second phase, MPP aims to consolidate the efforts of the first stage, as it continues to support a higher education ecosystem directly connected to technology development and innovation, promote a healthy relationship between graduate students and industry experts and projects, and further develop of cross-disciplinary innovation and entrepreneurship activities. These strategies aim to maximize knowledge transfer and to translate technology-based ideas into economic value. Those benefits will come from a combination of individual drive, basic research, technology innovation, entrepreneurship, industry-academia collaboration, and the successful integration of highly educated innovators into the workforce. Our efforts are dedicated to achieving a major goal: to create a new generation of leaders with unique knowledge and a global perspective.

Bioengineering Systems Bioengineering is one of the faster evolving areas in engineering. New technology is emerging every day, and resulting in immediate improvement in people’s lives and health. The Bioengineering Systems PhD aims to create educational and research programs that lay the foundation for the next generation of biotechnology industry and academic leaders in Portugal. The program targets high-flyers: highly motivated students with a passion to carry out research in biology and engineering, and with an excellent academic record. The Program is a consortium between MIT and four Portuguese universities. It combines engineering with experience in innovation, leadership, and systems thinking. It focuses on cutting edge research, consolidated and updated through a doctoral program to bring forth novel scientific knowledge and new technologies in the area of bioengineering. It also considers potential applications with shorter times to market, lower initial capital investment, or higher value creation – both societal and economic. The PhD Program aims to promote a highly integrated set of advanced education and research activities that cross disciplinary boundaries and link engineering education to industry. It focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship with a hands-on approach and educational experiences, and offers laboratory rotations, scholarship sponsorship and workshops organized with industrial affiliates. This synergy with industry is crucial, taking innovation to market to improve companies’ international competitiveness, and achieving a high level of graduates’ employability. The curricular part of the Program offers a comprehensive coursework delivered in 2 or 3-week modules jointly taught by faculty from Portuguese universities and MIT. These are presented in different Portuguese institutions, promoting student and teacher mobility. The joint teaching by faculty across Portugal, as well as from MIT, provides students with an international view of science, engineering, and research, and offers the opportunity to build strong and effective collaborations. During their PhD research, students are expected to have training periods at MIT and/or other foreign institutions, as well as shorter training periods in the Portuguese institutions. Students are offered several cross-cutting education modules in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, and leadership, designed by adapting lessons from the MIT ecosystem to the specific Portuguese context. Program graduates have a strong knowledge of the proposed research areas - bioprocess engineering, computational biosystems, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, nanobiotechnology and biomaterials, biomedical devices and technologies, drug development practices, and applied neuroscience --, and are able to conceive, conduct and implement research in scientific projects in bioengineering laboratories or private companies around the world. Several alumni and faculty have created or are involved with start-up companies such as Cell2B, Matera, SilicoLife and Inception. Others are working at or performing research in national and international companies. They have the problem-solving and communication skills needed to succeed in one of the most important emerging areas of world technology.

Affiliated Institutions Universidade Nova de Lisboa - NOVA Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - FCTUNL Instituto de Tecnologia Química Biológica – ITQB (associated laboratory with Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia (EEUM) Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

In collaboration with Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular (CNC)

Partnership and collaboration in the program’s education and research features Hovione S.A.

Industrial Affiliates Alfama, Inc.; Altakitin Corp.; Bioalvo S.A.; Biotecnol, S.A.; Biotempo Lda.; Biotrend – Inovação e Engenharia em Biotecnologia, S.A.; CIPAN – Companhia Industrial Productora de Antibiótitcos,S.A.; Crioestaminal – Saúde e Tecnologia, S.A.; ECBio – I&D em Biotecnologia, S.A.; Grupo Bial; Grupo Frulact; Stemmatters, Biotecnologia e Medicina Regenerativa Lda.; Unicer Bebidas, S.A.

Faculty PhD Director and Coordinator @FCTUNL: João Crespo PhD Director @MIT: Kristala Prather PhD Coordinator @IST: Joaquim Sampaio Cabral PhD Coordinator @UMinho: Eugénio Ferreira

Adriano O. Henriques (NOVA) Alexandra Marques (UMinho) Ali Khademhosseini (MIT) Amália Jurado (CNC) Ana Aguiar-Ricardo (NOVA) Ana Luisa Carvalho (CNC) Ana Teresa Freitas (IST) Ângela Taipa (IST) António E. Cunha (NOVA) Antonio M. Baptista (NOVA)

António Vicente (UMinho) Arlindo Oliveira (IST) Arsénio Fialho (IST) Bruce Tidor (MIT) Carlos B. Duarte (CNC) Carlos Geraldes (CNC) Catarina Duarte (NOVA) Catarina Resende Oliveira (CNC) Cecília Roque (NOVA) Charles Cooney (MIT)

Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST) Cláudio M. Soares (NOVA) Conceição Pedrosa de Lima (CNC) Daniel Wang (MIT) Dava Newman (MIT) Dianne K. Newman (MIT) Domingos Henrique (IST) Duarte Miguel Prazeres (IST) Elly Nedivi (MIT) Estela Bicho (UMinho) Eugénio Ferreira (UMinho) Fiona Murray (MIT) Fred Bowman (MIT) Gabriel Monteiro (IST) Guilherme Matos Ferreira (IST) Helena Santos (NOVA) Hugh Herr (MIT) Isabel Moura (NOVA) Isabel Rocha (UMinho) Isabel Sá Correia (IST) Joana Azeredo (UMinho) João Aires de Sousa (NOVA) João G. Crespo (NOVA) João Miranda Lemos (IST) João Nuno Moreira (CNC) João O. Malva (CNC) João Pedro Conde (IST) Joaquim Sampaio Cabral (IST) Jorge Martins (IST) José da Costa Nunes (NOVA) José Higino Correia (UMinho) José J. G. Moura (NOVA) José Teixeira (UMinho) Júlia Costa (NOVA) K. Dane Wittrup (MIT) Ken Oye (MIT) Ken Zolot (MIT) Kristala Prather (MIT) Larry Young (MIT) Lígia M. Saraiva (NOVA) Lígia Rodrigues (UMinho) Lino Ferreira (CNC) Luís Almeida (CNC) Luís Fonseca (IST) Luis Perez-Breva (MIT)

Madalena Alves (UMinho) Manuel Carrondo (NOVA) Manuel Mota (UMinho) Manuel Nunes da Ponte (NOVA) Manuela Fonseca (IST) Manuela Gomes (UMinho) Maria Arménia Carrondo (NOVA) Maria João Romão (NOVA) Maria Reis (NOVA) Martha Gray (MIT) Miguel Castelo-Branco (CNC) Miguel Gama (UMinho) Miguel Rocha (UMinho) Miguel Tavares da Silva (IST) Miguel Teixeira (IST) Natália Alves (UMinho) Nuno M. Neves (UMinho) Patrícia Almeida Carvalho (IST) Paula Hammond (MIT) Paula Marques Alves (NOVA) Paulo Costa Lemos (NOVA) Paulo Freitas (IST) Paulo Mota (NOVA) Pedro Fernandes (IST) Pedro Santos (IST) Raquel Aires Barros (IST) Ricardo Louro (NOVA) Robert Langer (MIT) Rodrigo A. Cunha (CNC) Rui Baptista (IST) Rui Oliveira (NOVA) Rui Reis (UMinho) Sangeeta Bhatia (MIT) Sérgio Simões (CNC) Stan Finkelstein (MIT) Steve Massaquoi (MIT) Stuart Madnick (MIT) Subra Suresh (MIT) Susana Barreiros (NOVA) Teresa Moura (NOVA) Thomas Allen (MIT) Ulrich Scheven (NOVA) Vasco D. B. Bonifácio (NOVA) Yann Astier (NOVA)

How has MPP contributed to your career development? Besides providing me with a wonderful baggage of technical knowledge that I use everyday in my company, the MIT Portugal Program taught me some of the most important basic principles in entrepreneurship and frombench-to-market strategies that continuously shape the steps my company takes every day. Federico Cismondi, PhD

MPP has highly contributed to the development of my career, since I had the opportunity to work with wonderful scientists in Portugal and USA during my PhD. The work I have developed during my thesis with the great support of my Portuguese and American supervisors in the context of MPP, has certainly contributed to open new opportunities in the scientific community, such as my current post-doctoral position in Japan, solidifying my international career as a scientist! Geisa Goncalves, PhD

More than anything else MPP contributed to the development of my soft skills and to build up confidence of my knowledge in the field I work in. The program allowed me to understand and interact with different people with several different scientific backgrounds. It helped me to create and establish my own network. Irina SimĂľes, PhD

Thanks to MPP, I got to know several bioengineering areas wider than my biochemistry degree. This new perspective of science and engineering, together with the people (students, teachers, and mentors) I met, opened new perspectives and introduced me to the fields of neuroscience and innovation/entrepreneurship. The tools acquired during the PhD program, the project development, and the first academic year helped me to know how multidisciplinary and team work are key characteristics to succeed. Maria Eiriz, PhD

MPP gave me the opportunity to work, collaborate, and be inspired by highly skilled and passionate people from across the globe. The highly dynamic and impact-driven ecosystem created by this program in Portugal and abroad, made it possible for me to continuously learn from fellow colleagues and create professional relationships that still last even after graduation. Paulo Luzio de Melo, PhD

MPP was extremely important in boosting my entrepreneurial nature. It has also been an amazing experience contacting and learning from people from a wide range of backgrounds. It certainly influenced my colleagues, and me as we have incorporated Cell2B Advanced Therapeutics in 2012 that is still our professional challenge. Pedro Andrade, PhD

The MPP has exposed me to cutting edge research performed in Portugal and at MIT. Moreover, it has provided me with basic business skills, which are fundamental for evaluating any career opportunities, ranging from new jobs to founding of startups. Rui TostĂľes, PhD

BIO-E PhD Students Isa Monteiro

2007/2008

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Development of a Novel Regenerative Medicine Approach to Treat Skin Defects PhD Advisors: Rui Reis (UMinho), Paul Hammond (MIT), Robert Langer (MIT)

Ana Machado

2010/2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Neural Circuits and Behavior PhD Advisors: Megan Carey (IGC-ITQB)

Carla Moura Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of hydrogel-based constructs with encapsulated cells PhD Advisors: Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), Paulo Bartolo (IPL)

Gabriel Mendes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Magnetotransfection – exploring new ways to improve clostridium pasteurianum for better butanol yield PhD Advisors: Manuel Mota (CEB-UMinho), Leonardus Kluskens (CEB-UMinho), Senentxu - Lanceros Mèndez (UMinho) This project aims to develop products that simplify the laboratory methods used for the genetic improvement of microorganisms with commercial potential that can be applied in biotechnology, in areas such as food industry, environment or energy. These products will constitute a new methodological paradigm through its simplicity and will substitute classical procedures that are more time-consuming, more expensive and technically more demanding. Transformation of microorganisms is a cumbersome procedure normally needing three main steps. With our technology we envisage attaining transformation in a single step through spreading microorganisms and foreign DNA on novel transformation petri-dishes.

BIO-E PhD Students Ivana Kostic Nationality: Serbian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Cell and cell-free therapeutic engineering for cardiac regeneration PhD Advisors: Lino Ferreira (CNC-UC), Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL), Jeffrey Karp (Harvard Medical School) For clinical efficacy, it is imperative that stem cells survive and engraft into the host tissue. Unfortunately, most of the cells die a few days after delivery, mainly due to ischemia. Some methodologies have been proposed to augment cell survival, but they have shown limited effectiveness. Our approach was to augment cell survival by preconditioning CD34+ cells isolated from umbilical cord blood1 with several pharmacological agents2. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) treatment under hypoxia and serum-deprived conditions showed the most promising results. Additionally, cell-free approaches are being characterized. References: [1] Haider, H.; Ashraf, M. J Mol Cell Cardiol 2008, 45, (4), 554-66. [2] Pedroso, D.C., et al., PLoS One, 2011. 6(1): p. e16114.

Joaquim Barbosa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

“Cellsense” - Design of a whole-cell biosensor for biomedical applications PhD Advisors: Lígia Rodrigues (UMinho), Leon Kluskens (UMinho) Cancer represents a public health problem worldwide due to high incidence, mortality and prevalence. The difficulties of early stage diagnosis reduce treatments effectiveness. Cancer diagnosis can be very sensitive if based on molecular features and cell-SELEX methodology may open new ways to distinguish cancerous from healthy cells, based on those features. This may help in the study of changes at the molecular level, but also in the morphology and physiology of cancer cells. Aptamers selected through this method have a high affinity to the target but also high specificity, low molecular weight, easy and reproducible production, versatility and easy discovery and manipulation. In this work, cell-SELEX will be used to generate aptamers that specifically recognize breast cancer cells. Aptamers will be validated and a multivalent aptamer nanovector for multiple detection will be assessed.

Patricia Pitrez Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Development of a tissue engineered intestine PhD Advisors: Lino Ferreira (CNC-UC) A number of gut disorders, including Crohn’s disease, can lead to Short Bowel Syndrome (SBS). SBS compromises (i) the nutrient transport function of the mucosa layer and (ii) the peristalsis function of the muscularis propria layer. A potential treatment for SBS would be the development of a living, tissue engineered small intestinal graft to replace the lost tissue. Several attempts have been made to tissue engineer small intestine; however, they fail to reproduce the complexity and functionality of living tissue. The general aim of this work is to develop a tissue engineered intestine.

BIO-E PhD Students Tiago Reis

2010/2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Biodegradable polymeric units with controlled surface chemistry for accelerated wound healing mechanisms PhD Advisors: Ana Ricardo (FCT-UNL), Paul Hammond (MIT)

Veronica Corrales Nationality: Colombia Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Value-Based Decision Making in Drosophila foraging: Genes, Computations and Behaviour PhD Advisors: Carlos Ribeiro (Fundação Champalimaud ), Aldo Faisal (Imperial College) Animals need to trade-off exploration and exploitation when foraging. We have developed a semi-automated machine-vision setup to investigate how decision making dynamics is modulated by sensory information and internal state. Fruit flies are free to walk and decide among multiple food patches and their dynamic foraging strategies are later quantified and analysed using diverse computational and statistical techniques. We have found that the internal state modulates the departure decision (“explore or exploit”) and the arrival decision (“choose or move on”) as captured by the differences in the distributions of yeast and sucrose bout durations and by the transition probabilities between patches. We are currently investigating how different neuronal and genetic manipulations modulate these neuroeconomic decisions in Drosophila melanogaster.

Cláudia Correia

2011/2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Bioprocessing of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Cardiac Cell Therapy PhD Advisors: Paula Alves (ITQB-UNL/IBET), Margarida Serra (ITQB-UNL/IBET) The main aim of this PhD project is to develop robust and effective approaches for the production of pure and functional human Pluripotent Stem Cells (PSC)-derived cardiomyocytes (CMs) in clinically relevant quantities. First, novel tools for scalable differentiation of human PSC towards CMs will be developed using fully controlled bioreactor systems. Transcriptome, metabolome and fluxome analyses will be applied along the differentiation process to disclose which pathways are differentially activated and/or repressed. Functionalized biomaterials suitable for cell therapy will be used to purify and mature the differentiated product and the quality of the final CMs will be assessed in vitro and in vivo. Lastly, efficient strategies for cryopreservation and for hypothermic storage of PSC-derived CMs after large-scale production will be explored.

BIO-E PhD Students Cristiana Faria Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of hydrogel-based constructs with encapsulated cells PhD Advisors: Helena Santos (ITQB), Isabel Rocha (UM)

Daniel Simão Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Development of Human Central Nervous System 3D in vitro Models for Preclinical Research PhD Advisors: Paula M. Alves (IBET/ITQB-NOVA), Catarina Brito (IBET/ITQB-NOVA) The current lack of predictable models in early stage development in the pharma industry strongly contributes for the high attrition rates registered. Thus, there is an increasing need for a paradigm shift towards more human relevant cell models, which can closely recapitulate the in vivo cell‑cell and cell-ECM interactions. The main goal of this project was the development of human 3D in vitro neural models, making use of agitation-based culture systems and human stem cells as scalable supply of neural‑subtype cells. The applicability of these models in a preclinical setting was explored by assessing the efficacy and safety assessment of novel viral vector candidates for gene therapy.

Gianluca Selvaggio Nationality: Italian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Seeking general principles in the design of defense systems against hydrogen peroxide PhD Advisors: Armindo J. Salvador (CNC-UC) My work focus on the understanding of the phenotypic dichotomy that 2-Cys Peroxiredoxins, exhibit under high or sustained oxidative loads. They in fact may undergo substrate inactivation, by hyperoxidation of their peroxidatic cysteine, or accumulate into disulphide form. This not only between different organisms but also within different cell types of the same host. We have addressed this problem by combinatorially studying the components of a minimal model of the Peroxiredoxin, Thioredoxin and Thioredoxin Reductase system, in order to extract the core design requirements which would ensure one behaviour or the other. The obtained rule allows to correlate proteins abundance patterns with the modes of response, accordingly predicting the choice in several biological instances, and do shred an interesting light over the roles of this system in the defense/signal transduction integration.

BIO-E PhD Students Inês Honorio

2011/2012

Nationality: French Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Personalized 3D vascular constructs for toxicity/drug screening assessment PhD Advisors: Lino Ferreira (CNC-UC)

Jorge Pascoal Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Exploring Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Fate Using 3-D Cellular Microarrays PhD Advisors: Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL), Margarida Diogo (IST-UL), Jonathan Dordick (Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute) Development of a microscale platform for the study of the effects of different molecules during in vitro 3-D expansion and differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSC), under chemically-defined conditions.

Marisa Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Bioproduction of mannosylerythritol lipids aiming at jet biofuel application PhD Advisors: Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), César Fonseca (Aalborg University - Copenhagen) Mannosylerythritol lipids (MELs) are glycolipids with surface active properties produced by Pseudozyma sp. strains. These biosurfactants are usually produced from vegetable oils but due to competition with food supply chain, their increasing prices and difficult downstream separation the process can hardly be sustainable. This project focus on the production of MELs starting from lignocellulosic residues, aiming at added value products on the energy and health sectors: namely fuel for aviation and gene delivery. At the center of this project is MEL production optimization with short lipid chains from Pseudozyma spp. suitable for use as jet fuel. Reactor operation will be investigated for different feed substrate configurations namely, fed batch, continuous and membrane operations.

BIO-E PhD Students Patrícia Morgado

2011/2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Development of hydrogel-based dressings for skin wound regeneration using supercritical fluids technology PhD Advisors: Ilídio Correia (Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade da Beira Interior), Ana Aguiar-Ricardo (FCT-UNL) Asymmetrical structures have arisen over the last two decades as suitable wound dressings. However, the production methods used so far, present some limitations: are time-consuming, need the use of toxic organic solvents and few polymers could be used. In addition, taking into account the worldwide economic status, sustainable procedures should be adopted for wound-management. This project presents a sustainable alternative to the previous methods: supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2)-phase inversion technique demonstrated to be a suitable method to produce asymmetric membranes, being certainly the method of the future in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Ricardo Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

The Role of the Mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain in Regulating Stem Cell Behavior and Tissue Homeostasis PhD Advisors: Leanne Jones (UCLA), Miguel Godinho Ferreira (IGC), António Jacinto (CEDOC - FCM/UNL) Adult stem cells are responsible for tissue regeneration throughout life and respond to different signals to make decisions whether to proliferate or differentiate. These signals result from a complex network of pathways in which several metabolic mechanisms take place. The goal of this project is to identify individual components of the mitochondrial Electron Transport Chain (ETC) that play a major role in stem cell behavior. After performing a screen to reduce the levels of single subunits of the ETC specifically in the digestive tract of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, we aim to describe the pathways in which candidate components participate. With the insights gained from this project we hope to contribute with new fundamental descriptions of stem cell regulation and tissue homeostasis, ultimately providing advancements in stem cell therapies or cancer treatments.

Rui Portela Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

A Hybrid Systems Framework to Design Standard Biological Parts for Synthetic Biology: Application to Pichia pastoris PhD Advisors: Rui Oliveira (Requimte/CQFB, FCT-UNL), Anton Glieder (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Technische Universität Graz) The objective of this thesis is to develop a hybrid systems framework for the design of standard biological parts for synthetic biology. The first task will be the development of efficient hybrid modeling and computational methods for the description of target biological parts using DNA descriptors to accurately predict kinetic parameters. This framework will then be used to generate in silico a library of biological parts by implementing a mixed integer program that maximizes the biological part strength by manipulating the respective DNA sequence. The third activity is a wet lab activity in order to validate the developed promoters library. We expect that these activities will provide a basis for a hybrid systems framework for synthetic biology and the respective proof-of-concept translated in the improvement of the production of heterologous proteins by P. pastoris.

BIO-E PhD Students Sérgio Gonçalves

2011/2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of a Hybrid Model for Forward Dynamic Analysis of Biomechanical Systems PhD Advisors: Miguel Tavares da Silva (IST-UL) Forward dynamic-based models have been successfully applied in the simulation of biomechanical systems, in particular in human gait. A novel methodology is proposed to simulate the human walking, based on hybrid dynamic models. Hybrid models combine the advantages of the methodologies typically used in multibody dynamics with a control-based approach, improving the efficiency and realism of the simulation. The proposed methodology should compare the results of both pathologic and non-pathological simulations, enabling to understand major differences and the steps required to improve subject’s performance. New approaches for optimization cost functions will also be considered. The model will be the base of a computational tool developed to support the design of orthopaedic solutions and to support medical decisions.

Tomás Dias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Multiplexed DNA spotting and hybridization on gold patterned substrates PhD Advisors: Gabriel Monteiro (IST-UL), Paulo Freitas (IST-UL)

Vijaykumar Dhadge Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

High Gradient Magnetic Separation of Therapeutics PhD Advisors: Cecilia Roque (FCT-UNL), Raquel Aires-Barros (IST-UL) Research work is mainly focused on development of functionalised magnetic nanoparticles based process technology for monoclonal antibody purification. Amino-phenyl boronic acid modified magnetic nanoparticle were used as basic building blocks for process development for selective capture and purification of antibodies.

2012/2013

Ana Lima

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

BIO-E PhD Students Andreia Pimenta Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Surface modifications to control drug release from therapeutic ophthalmic lenses PhD Advisors: Rogério Colaço (IST-UL), Ana Paula Serro (IST-UL) The main aim of this work is to develop and optimize surface modified/coated drug-releasing hydrogels to be used in therapeutic ophthalmic lenses. For that, different surface coating/modification strategies will be tested in order to create drug diffusion barriers, which lead to a continuous and gradual dispense of medication to the eye, at adjustable rates, and for extended periods. The drug release kinetics will be investigated through in vitro tests by using an equipment specially conceived to simulate the eye function (tear flow and blinking for SCLs, humour exchange for IOLs), which allows a reliable extrapolation to the biological conditions. Appropriate physical-chemical and biological experimentation will be performed in view of future (pre)clinical validation.

António Soure Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Selection and expansion of donor antigen-specific regulatory T-cells for subsequent clinical translation PhD Advisors: Joaquim Sampaio Cabral (IST-UL), Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), João Lacerda (Instituto de Medicina Molecular) My research focuses on the expansion/selection of regulatory T-cells, using a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC)-based co-culture system. Briefly, MSC are obtained from differente sources (bone marrow and adipose tissue) and cultured in vitro until confluent. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) or purified regulatory T-cells (Treg) are also added to examine the ability of MSC to induce and expand Treg in vitro. To determine if the mechanism by which MSC induce/expand Treg is due to cell-cell contact or the release of soluble factors, transwell experiments are performed and blocking antibodies against relevant soluble factors (e.g. IL-2, IL-10, TGF-β, IL-17) are used. Also, I have been studying the influence of a serum-free medium, containing human platelet lysate, in the expansion and immunomodulatory properties of adipose tissue and umbical-cord matrix-derived MSC.

Bárbara Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Development of integrated strategies for the downstream processing of human stem cells for clinical application PhD Advisors: Margarida Serra (iBET/ITQB-UNL), Paula Alves (iBET/ITQB-UNL) The aim of this PhD project was to establish scalable and integrated downstream processing (DSP) strategies, based on filtration technologies, for the clarification, concentration and washing unit operations for adult and pluripotent SC from human origin without compromising cells’ quality. Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) will be used as challenging and complex cell-based products. A systematic approach will be developed by combining membrane technology and chromatographic tools in a robust, scalable, compatible with current good manufacturing practices (c-GMP), and affordable process, aiming at establishing a flexible platform, which can be transferred to clinical/industrial settings. This research as won an award for “best student poster prize” in the 2015 conference “Scale-up and Manufacturing of Cell-Based Therapies IV” in San Diego, California.

BIO-E PhD Students Cláudia Saraiva

2012/2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

MicroRNAs-loaded nanoparticles as a new promising therapeutic tool for neural stem cell-based brain repair strategies PhD Advisors: Liliana Bernardino (Health Sciences Research Centre), Lino Ferreira (CNC-UC) The subventricular zone comprises a main germinal niche in the adult mammalian brain. Within this region there are multipotent neural stem cells (NSCs) that can give rise to new neurons and glia cells. Understanding how to efficiently trigger NSCs differentiation is crucial to devise new cellular therapies aimed to repair a damaged brain. It has been shown recently that microRNAs (miRNAs) are essential molecules for the neurogenesis process. The main goal of this work is study the inductive effect of miRNAs-loaded nanoparticles (NPs) in the differentiation of NSCs into neurons in vitro and in an animal model of Parkinson disease. Initially, the bioactivity of miRNAs-loaded NPs in neuronal differentiation and maturation will be evaluated in vitro. Then, the most promising formulation will be tested in vivo and cell phenotype, functionality and animal motor function will be evaluated.

Emanuel Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Modulation of hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) activity PhD Advisors: Ricardo Neves (CNC-UC), Lino Ferreira (CNC-UC) Methodologies to increase the number or engraftment efficiency of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) could provide substantial clinical benefit. We hypothesize that the transient ectopic delivery of HOXB4 in transplanted HSCs may potentiate their number and final engraftment. The main goal of this project is to study the effect of HOXB4 in terms of HSC renewal and engraftment into an animal model.

Francisco Moreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Scalable Expansion of Human Mesenchymal Stem/Stromal Cells as 3-D Aggregates Towards an Improved Cellular Product PhD Advisors: Joaquim Sampaio Cabral (IST-UL), Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL) In the last decade, the regenerative and immunomodulatory properties of mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSC) have been the focus of tremendous interest. In fact, the therapeutic potential of MSC led to an increasing number of clinical trials worldwide for a wide variety of diseases, namely graftversus-host disease, myocardial infarction or Crohn’s disease among others. Traditional 2-D culture methods have been extensively used to cultivate adherent cells as MSC. However, these are very labor intensive and limited in scalability, turning the large-scale cultivation of MSC a manufacturing challenge in order to achieve clinically and commercially relevant lot sizes. The main goal of this project is to establish a platform for the large-scale production of human MSC as encapsulated 3-D aggregates, able to generate spheroids with controlled size, under defined xenogeneic-free conditions.

BIO-E PhD Students Franklin Nóbrega Nationality: Portuguese (descent) and South African (birth) Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Prokaryotic Arms Race - from exploration to exploitation PhD Advisors: Leon Kluskens (CEB-UMinho), Joana Azeredo (CEB-UMinho), John Van der Oost (Microbiology Department-WUR) The gain of antibiotic resistance by pathogens urges scientists progressively to search for other ways to fight bacterial infections. A promising alternative to antibiotics is phage therapy, i.e. the use of bacterial viruses (bacteriophages) that have the capacity to specifically recognize and eliminate bacterial strains. However upon infection, also phages face various resistance mechanisms and their rate of success is determined by their ability to evade these antiviral systems. Therefore, to be able to fully exploit the potential of phage therapy, it is imperative to better understand this relationship. This thesis proposes to explore this phage-host relationship in notorious pathogens. We will focus on the recently discovered CRISPR immune system of these strains, how resistance is gained and how it is avoided by phage.

Henrique Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Developing Artificial Zinc Fingers with Peptidase Activity PhD Advisors: Olga Iranzo (Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille), Cecília Roque (FCT-UNL), Ricardo Brando (REQUIMTE/FCT-UNL) The overall goal of the project is to redesign the zinc domain of the zinc finger proteins to obtain stable peptidic scaffolds capable of coordinating transition metal ions and displaying peptidase activity. We are also interested in attaching the best candidates to solid supports to develop recyclable catalysts. Therefore, the immobilization of these candidates and the impact in the catalytic activity will be also explored. The outcome of these studies will be very important for the design of recyclable catalysts.

Marta Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Effect of a spatiotemporal controlled delivery of growth factors on the maintenance of MSC pluripotency PhD Advisors: Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), Claudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL)

BIO-E PhD Students Miguel Amador

2012/2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

New adaptive regulatory frameworks towards sustainable patients’ access to breakthrough Cell Therapies PhD Advisors: Manuel Heitor (IST-UL), Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), Miguel Amaral (IST-UL), Kenneth Oye (MIT) New perspectives on risk governance promise better patients’ access to breakthrough therapies, such as the emerging field of Cell Therapies, yet with limited access of patients. This research work is studying the suitability of new adaptive regulatory framework on Cell Therapies, to propose guidance on its implementation and design, which extends to new frameworks of risk management on commercialization, manufacturing and value chains of technology platforms. Evidences will be gathered from case studies therapies, from regulatory impact on patients, and expert opinions. Research will focus on cases identified in Europe, and in USA. It is expected that this work support the definition of new risk governance strategies for guiding stakeholders on the actions needed, aiming to guarantee patients’ access to effective breakthrough Cell Therapies that are safe and economical sustainable.

Ricardo Miragaia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Single-Cell Gene Expression in Regulatory T cells PhD Advisors: Eugénio Ferreira (UMinho), Sarah Teichmann (University of Cambridge)

Roksana Pirzgalska Nationality: Polish Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

The neuro-adipose connection and its immune regulators. PhD Advisors: Ana Domingos (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência), Eugénia Carvalho (CNC-UC) Variations in metabolic states, such as fasting, overnutrition, thermogenesis and weight loss, activate the immune system. Consequently, inflammation and auto-immunity have been associated with obesity, although the link to neurobiology has so far only been shown for the hypothalamic neurons. The discovery of cold-responsive, alternatively activated (M2) macrophages, which secrete catecholamines to elevate thermogenic gene expression in brown adipose tissue (BAT) and lipolysis in white adipose tissue (WAT) has focused attention on the role of adipose organ in preserving energy homeostasis. In this project I explore mechanisms underlying neuroimmune crosstalk in the adipose organ. Keywords: neuroimmune mechanisms; adipose organ; obesity

BIO-E PhD Students Tânia Mendes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Rational Design of Bacteriophages as a Platform for Cancer Therapy PhD Advisors: Lígia Rodrigues (UMinho), Leon Kuskens (UMinho) Conventional chemotherapy is mostly based on systemic administration of highly cytotoxic drugs that non-specifically target any dividing cells, resulting in indiscriminate drug distribution and severe toxicity for patients. Therefore, a new paradigm that moves cancer therapy from the administration of non-selective drugs to the targeted delivery of highly specific agents is required. The aim of this PhD proposal is to engineer bacteriophage-based nanoparticles able to invade and control the cancer with high specificity and reduced adverse effects. Our approach will comprise genetic manipulation and chemical conjugation to endow bacteriophages with cancer-specificity-conferring ligands and with a large payload of cytotoxic drugs, respectively. Additionally, the efficacy and mechanisms underlying the activity of the phage-based nanoparticles will be elucidated.

Tânia Vieira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Development of a new nanostructured scaffold for neural stem/ progenitor cell transplantation PhD Advisors: Célia Henriques (FCT-UNL), João Paulo Borges (FCT-UNL), Ana Sofia Falcão (FF/UL) The impact of a spinal cord injury (SCI) is devastating due to loss of neurological functions. The transplantation of stem/progenitor cells (NSPC) supported by a scaffold to the injured site in order to promote axonal regeneration is a promising strategy under investigation. The PhD work consists in the synthesis and chemical characterization of new biodegradable polyurethanes (PU). Electrospinning will be used to produce meshes of randomly oriented and aligned nanofibers from different PU formulations. These fiber meshes will be characterized and using a model cell line, their biocompatibility and potential for promoting cell adhesion will also be evaluated. Primary NSPC neurospheres will be induced to differentiate into a system of neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes. The influence of different fiber meshes on cell populations, axonal growth and myelination will be studied.

Ana Alves

2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Modified liposomes for improved therapeutics against leishmaniasis PhD Advisors: Ana Tomás (IBMC), Gert Storm (Utrecht University), Miguel Gama (UMinho) Leishmaniasis, a set of neglected diseases caused by protozoan Leishmania parasites and affecting millions worldwide, suffers from the lack of adequate control measures. Among the most effective leishmanicidals is the liposomal formulation of Amphotericin B (AmpB), known as Ambisome, whose performance is still not ideal. By doing some alterations in liposomes surface we expected to induce an anti-parasitic immune response and simultaneously enhance the uptake of AmpB by macrophages. Together, both effects should contribute to an improved leishmanicidal activity relative to the reference drug Ambisome.

BIO-E PhD Students Catarina Rebelo

2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Cátia Salgado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A decision support system for ICU readmissions and mortality prediction using data based modeling PhD Advisors: Susana Vieira (IST-UL), Stan Finkelstein (MIT)

Denis Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

From sub-cellular imaging to an “imaging Petri-dish” using integrated thin-film silicon photosensors in lab-on-chip system. PhD Advisors: João Pedro Conde (IST-UL), Miguel Prazeres (IST-UL, IBB) The aim of this thesis involving INESC MN/IN and BERG/IBB is the development of thin-film silicon photodetector arrays on glass substrates and their application towards high sensitivity fluorescence and transmission-based imagers and biosensors in lab-on-a-chip systems. These devices will be applied for the detection of subcellular structures, both by fluorescence and transmission, in individual cells for disease detection and for the implementation of large area sensor arrays for cell culture monitoring (“imaging Petri-dish”).

Diogo Pinto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of a cell-based product with enhanced therapeutic features for myocardial regeneration through an integrative bioprocess approach PhD Advisors: Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), António Fiarresga (Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Central, Hospital de Santa Marta) This project aims at developing a safe, good manufacturing practices (GMP)-compliant and off-the-shelf ex-vivo expanded cell product with enhanced therapeutic potential to promote myocardial regeneration in patients with infarcted myocardium, through an integrative bioprocess approach. The project will focus on a specific type of stem cells, mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (MSC), isolated from the umbilical cord matrix (UCM). MSC trigger potent immunosuppressive and immunoregulatory effects on a variety of immune cell types, as well as regenerative effects on damaged cells/tissues. The work aims at expanding UCM MSC in xenogeneic-free conditions, under stirred conditions, and assessing the impact of the upstream/downstream processing on the phenotype and immunomodulatory/regenerative capacity of these cells.

BIO-E PhD Students Fátima Pinto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Multifunctional lipid nanocarriers for the topical delivery of active ingredients with anti-aging potential PhD Advisors: Luís Fonseca (IST-UL/IBB), Dragana Barros (IST-UL/IBB) Development of biodegradable nanocarriers for the targeted release of bioactive substances. It is planned the design a new formulation for the efficient topical delivery of anti-aging active ingredients. More specifically, the formulation and characterization nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs) and nanoemulsions (NEs) loaded with two commonly used drugs in anti-aging cosmetics. Secondly, it is expected to incorporate the formulated nanocarriers into secondary vehicles, to improve its stability and facilitate its topical application. The resultant lipid nanosystems-enriched hydrogels will be fully characterized and its efficacy will be evaluated in vitro. Moreover, the economic and environmental viability of the process scale-up will be assessed by advanced simulation and experimentation.

Hélder Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Accelerating metabolic engineering tasks by the in silico development of libraries of strain PhD Advisors: Isabel Rocha (UM), Kiran Patil (EMBL Heidelberg)

Joaquim Ribeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Novel Anaerobes for a Biobased Economy PhD Advisors: Alfons Stams (WageningenUR/UMinho), Madalena Alves (UMinho), Maria Alcina Pereira (UMinho) To study the physiology of novel anaerobes that grow with lipids and glycerol and novel LCFA-degrading bacteria. The ability to form LCFA from short chain fatty acids will be further assessed. In particular, the effect of methanogens, hydrogen and electricity on the metabolism of the novel anaerobes will be studied. The strategy is to obtain highly purified cultures by serial dilution technique; then, isolation will be done by using short chain fatty acids and hydrogen as substrates and by applying bromethanesulfonate to inhibit methanogens. The pure cultures obtained of novel lipids-fermenting and glycerol-fermenting anaerobes, will be studied further using genome and proteome approaches.

BIO-E PhD Students Maria Jacinto

2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Integrative platform for concentration, purification and detection of viral particles PhD Advisors: Raquel Aires Barros (IST-UL), Ana Azevedo (IST-UL), Richard C. Willson (University of Houston) Point of care, especially lateral flow assays and diagnostics are becoming increasingly important. Many analytes often occur in low concentrations, and usually in complex sample matrices such as beverages and food, and body fluids, especially blood. For successful application these detection methods must be combined with effective, efficient methods of sample processing, clean-up, and analyte concentration. The methods used in sample processing for assays also often can find larger applications, e.g., in manufacturing of viruses for vaccines and therapeutics. I’m focused in the purification and detection of viruses and virus like particles (VLPs) as target analytes.

Maria Sebastião Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Stem cell bioengineering

Maria Duarte Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Anaerobic Microbial Transformation of Long-Chain Fatty Acids PhD Advisors: Madalena Alves (UMinho), Alfons Stams (Wageningen University), Alcina Pereira (UMinho) Complete biodegradation of saturated LCFA to methane is a syntrophic process that requires the presence of a hydrogen-consuming microorganisms, generally methanogenic archaea. Apparently, unsaturated LCFA are converted into saturated LCFA before undergoing beta-oxidation. The metabolic steps involved in this conversion are not known, but were recently demonstrated to be independent of the presence of methanogens. We will try to isolate and characterize the microorganisms involved in oleate to palmitate conversion. The possible involvement of oxygen in these first degradation steps will also be evaluated. Metaproteomic and metatranscriptomic approaches will be used to study microbial composition and function in complex LCFA-transforming communities.

BIO-E PhD Students Mauro Luís Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Engineering culture media for Chinese Hamster Ovary cells: a Systems Biotechnology approach PhD Advisors: Rui Oliveira (FCT-UNL), Nuno Carinhas (MediaOmics) Current methods of cell culture media design are essentially empirical and inefficient when applied to many medium ingredients. The optimization of those media is fundamental and it still remains a challenge in an industry looking for a better cell culture performance but increasingly focused on safety issues. The general goal of this project is to develop a systems biotechnology framework for advanced and cost-effective cell culture medium design, applying this approach to Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, the most important in the biopharma industry.

Pawel Bujalski Nationality: Polish Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Impedance Shaping and Inertial Sensing for the design and control of hybrid Human-Machine systems PhD Advisors: Jorge Martins (IST-UL), Dava Newman (MIT), Leia Stirling (MIT) The broad aim of this research project is to explore new designs of robotic devices for physical rehabilitation and augmentation of humans. Under the hypotheses that impedance shaping, achieved through a control network of muscle actuation and proprioceptive sensing, regulates human motion, the proposed research targets the following key points: To devise and implement human performance experiments in order to uncover and model the biological impedance variation methods adopted during different tasks in locomotion and manipulation; To devise bio-inspired sensing estimation and control algorithms for impedance shaping; To explore the embodiment of the developed algorithms in compliant exoskeletons, as well as in functional electrical stimulation.

Pedro Geada Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Development of a cultivation system to optimize cyanotoxin productivity and cost effectiveness PhD Advisors: António Vicente (UMinho), Bruno Fernandes (UMinho), Vítor Vasconcelos (CIIMAR, University of Porto) Worldwide occurrence of hepatotoxic cyanobacteria and their toxins pose serious threats to public health. However, cyanotoxins can be used as laboratory standards in human and environmental risk assessment or even as tools for molecular and cell biology studies. Presently, their availability is low due to difficulties found in production and purification processes, which influence the final price. On the other hand, the variation of cyanobacterial blooms toxicity is probably due to environmental factors. Thus, the study of the influence of environmental factors on cyanobacteria growth and toxicity might help to control them just by monitoring environmental factors. The aim of this project is to evaluate the influence of environmental conditions (temperature, etc.) in cyanobacteria growth and toxin production. Cyanotoxin extraction and purification methods will also be developed.

BIO-E PhD Students Raquel Almeida

2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Biomimetic microengineered hydrogels for tendon tissue engineering PhD Advisors: Manuela E. Gomes (3B’s Research Group, UMinho) Musculoskeletal diseases are one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. Among them, tendon injuries are responsible for substantial morbidity, pain and disability, affecting athletes, active working people, and elder population whose joint movements rely on the biomechanical interplay of intrinsic and extrinsic musculotendinous forces. The combination of the chemical interaction between oppositely charged polyelectrolytes with microfabrication technologies could be useful in designing the biomimetic fiber bundle structures that resemble the native tendon tissue structure. Thus, the goal of this work is to develop biomimetic hydrogels composed of polymers naturally present in tendons to structurally support and/or act as a delivery system, either for cells or growth factors, with feasible properties for tendon regeneration.

Raquel Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of clinical grade stem cell-based products with enhanced therapeutic potential for cardiac regeneration PhD Advisors: Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), António Fiarresga (Centro Hospitalar de Lisboa Central, Hospital de Santa Marta) The present PhD project is focused on the development of clinical grade stem cell-based products obtained by ex vivo expansion of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in xeno-free and serum-free medium in order to have a process compliant with good manufacturing practices (GMP). The establishment of a reliable and reproducible cell expansion protocol for clinical applications should be complemented by the characterization of the product. Therefore, during this project a robust cell characterization platform will be developed to infer the regenerative potential of MSCs.

Rui Traquete Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Small Molecules Drug Conjugates as Selective Cancer Therapy PhD Advisors: Gonçalo Bernardes (Instituto de Medicina Molecular), Angela Koehler (MIT) The targeted delivery of cytotoxic agents capable of selective localization at the site of disease is a promising strategy in cancer therapy. In this project our aim is to rationally design and develop a new class of targeted cytotoxics with improved kinetics and selective recognition of target proteins.

BIO-E PhD Students Siddhi Lama Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior TĂŠcnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Exploring skin-mechanoreceptor sensing for enhanced control of hybrid Human-Machine systems PhD Advisors: Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), Jorge Martins (IST-UL) The aim of the proposed research is to contribute to the systemic understanding of the function of mechanoreceptor sensing in motor control, and to investigate on how this function may be integrated in hybrid human-machine control systems to enhance physical interaction. The basic hypothesis underlying this effort is that mechanoreceptor feedback may bring new insight to human motor control as it is understood from a musculoskeletal point of view, muscle spindle and Golgi tendon organ feedback. This new understanding, supported by specifically devised experiments, will lead the design of new mechanoreceptor sensors, which may adopt a synthetic, biohybrid of even pure biological forms. These developments are to be targeted at enhancing the control of soft exoskeletons, soft orthotics and prosthetics, specifically in fine and precise tasks, inspired by human tactile perception.

Sofia Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Development of novel strains for the production of biofuels PhD Advisors: Isabel Rocha (UMinho) Butanol is naturally produced by solventogenic bacteria trough Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) fermentation, usually with low productivities. Thus, most of butanol is currently chemical synthesised via petrochemical routes and its price is extremely sensitive to crude oilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s price, becoming imperative to seek for alternative ways to produce it. One possible approach is to express novel biosynthetic pathways in more user-friendly hosts as E. coli or Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In this sense, this work aims at evaluating and implementing in vivo novel pathways to produce butanol. These heterologous pathways, previously generated using a (hyper)graph-based algorithm, will be evaluated according to diverse criteria such as size of the solution, yield and novelty. Then, the pathways identified as the most promising ones will be implemented in vivo either in E. coli or S. cerevisiae. Finally, advanced techniques will be used to characterize and further improve the developed strains, including omics analyses and directed evolution.

Tiago Resende Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Improving predictions in metabolic engineering problems by incorporating enzyme structural information PhD Advisors: Isabel Rocha (UMinho), ClĂĄudio Soares (ITQB - UNL) My research is focused on the development and improvement of tools for more accurate predictions of protein functions and identification of substrate and co-factor specificities.

BIO-E PhD Students Ana Manjua

2014/2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Carla Portugal (FCT-UNL)

Andreia dos Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of a biomedical device for blood pressure measurement using thin film sensors PhD Advisors: Rui Igreja (CENIMAT/I3N, FCT-UNL), Hugo Águas (CENIMAT/I3N, FCT-UNL) My PhD project aims at the development of a biomedical device to measure blood pressure using sensors based on thin films technology. This device will be optimized to have a low energy consumption and will be coupled to an energy cell producer and a small battery in order to improve its autonomy and energetic efficiency. Through the reduction of its dimensions and the use of alternatives to inflatable cuffs, this device is expected to be more portable and comfortable than current blood pressure measuring devices, being therefore a viable alternative for a reliable daily and frequent measure of blood pressure.

Biagio Di Lorenzo Nationality: Italian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Molecular determinants of human gamma delta T cell development and activation PhD Advisors: Bruno Silva-Santos (Instituto de Medicina Molecular), Claudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL) The project aim at the investigatigation of the requirements for gamma delta T cell development and maturation within the thymus and at the quest for their ligands in both the thymus and the periphery.

BIO-E PhD Students Cátia Bandeiras Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A new model and decision support tool for stem cell manufacturing: bioprocess and bioeconomics perspectives PhD Advisors: Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL, IBB), Stan Finkelstein (MIT), Joaquim Sampaio Cabral (IST-UL, IBB) Stem cell therapies hold great promise for several unmet medical needs. However, current treatments can cost up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, largely due to high manufacturing costs. In order to better plan the manufacturing of a specific stem cell type and have costs compatible with commercialization, computational decision support tools are invaluable. However, current contributions lack comparisons between different product types, specific biological data on cell growth and a connection between prospective added value of the therapy, the reimbursement threshold and the maximum cost of goods allowable. A new decision support tool will be developed to incorporate the different steps of production of stem cells and to establish a relationship between added value of a new therapy and the maximum reimbursement value.

Cláudia Amorim Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Development of a sustainable bioprocess for the production of novel xylooligosaccharides and their potential application PhD Advisors: Lígia Rodrigues (UMinho), Kristala Prather (MIT) The growing demand of novel food products for well-being and age related issues coupled with increasing health care expenditure has attracted global attention on prebiotics. Xylooligosaccarides (XOS) are the only nutraceuticals that can be produced from lignocellulosic biomass. Indeed, XOS can be produced from agricultural crop residues, which is encouraging to the food ingredient industries. XOS beneficial effects include selective growth stimulation of beneficial gut microflora, cholesterol lowering, pathogen exclusion, among others. The microbial or enzymatic conversion of xylan into XOS holds a great promise for the use of a variety of agro-food and industrial residues.

Cláudia Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Artificial protein scaffolds for affinity-triggered biomaterials PhD Advisors: Ana Cecília Roque (FCT-UNL) Antibodies are widely employed as therapeutic agents, diagnostic tools for in vivo and in vitro analysis, and in affinity purification processes. However have disadvantages. Alternative scaffolds with various sizes and folds gained attention over the last 15 years. Our group has been working on a novel class of artificial protein scaffolds which overcome all the above problems. In this work, we will apply these artificial proteins in the field of biomaterial engineering. The artificial proteins will be designed in silico, and evolved by phage display technologies in order to find suitable binders for biomaterial-forming targets. The morphological and physico-chemical properties of the hydrogels will be characterized by a range of techniques. Hydrogels with distinct viscoelastic properties will be formed, and applied in stem cell differentitation.

BIO-E PhD Students Daniel Pais

2014/2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Development of advanced monitoring and control tools for hPSC bioprocesses PhD Advisors: Ana Teixeira (FCT-UNL/ITQB-UNL), Paula Alves (FCT-UNL/ITQB-UNL) Development of real time monitoring and control tools to monitor human induced pluripotent stem cells expansion and differentiation.

Inês Machado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Brain shift modeling in image-guided neurosurgery PhD Advisors: Jorge Martins (IST-UL) Conventional image-guided neurosurgery relies on pre-op images to provide surgical navigational information and visualization. However, these images are no longer accurate once the skull has been opened and brain shift occurs. To account for changes in the shape of the brain, updated images must be provided to the neuronavigation system.The techniques for shift compensation either involve intra-op imaging or computational modeling. The usage of volumetric imaging modalities like MRI, CT and ultrasound for the estimation and correction of brain shift has been previously demonstrated. However, with the recent advances in computing, the opportunities to translate computational models to more integrated roles in patient treatment are expanding at an exciting rate. Our goal is to couple these predictive models with intra-op imaging data to provide an efficient compensation strategy.

Jorge Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

New strategies to promote wastewater treatment plant sustainability through microbial community-based process modelling tools PhD Advisors: Adrian Oehmen (FCT-UNL) The design and optimisation of sustainable wastewater treatment plants is one of the most important challenges currently faced by the engineers of this field. Process modelling tools provide a less time-consuming and less costly method towards achieving this purpose. In this PhD working plan, a dynamic microbial community-based mathematical model will be developed through a stepwise approach, improving the understanding and applicability of biological nutrient removal models for greenhouse gas production by all relevant organisms, and for production of polyhydroxyalkanoates by mixed microbial cultures using wastewater as feedstock. An overall WWTP model will be developed, calibrated and validated using real wastewater, and applied to find new solutions that simultaneously promote improved BNR efficiency, resource recovery, minimal N2O production and minimal operational costs.

BIO-E PhD Students Mário Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Social Feeding – the intersections at the molecular, neural network and behavior levels PhD Advisors: Ana Luísa Carvalho (CNC-UC), João Peça (CNC-UC), Robert Froemke (NYUSM) I am part of a team currently trying to elucidate the role of the neural circuits of feeding on the modulation of social behaviour in mammals. My aim is to understand the network neurophysiology that generates and constrains these behaviours, and help to develop a platform that may enable their control.

Matilde Melo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Nicole Vieira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Manuel Nunes da Ponte (FCT-UNL)

Vanessa Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Dynamic Human Augmentation Systems PhD Advisors: Jorge Martins (IST-UL), Leia Stirling (MIT) Bio-inspiration is a fundamental driver for the development of control systems with humans in the loop. The understanding of the human neuromusculoskeletal system and the uncovering of its motor control laws give the underlying push for model identification and impedance control of biological joints as well as compliant robotic arms such as KUKA LWR. Using a systemic approach supported by specifically devised experiments, the broad aim of this research project is to arrive at dynamical models reproducing the joint motion as well as the internal displacement of the muscletendon junction. This new understanding will be used to develop better neuromuscular biomechanical models and reflexive control laws that could be implemented in functional electrical stimulation systems or assistive technical aids, that aim to improve function and minimize disability in patients.

BIO-E PhD Students Aldo Arévalo

2015/2016

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Manuel Nunes da Ponte (FCT-UNL)

Ana Cartaxo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Ana Tinoco Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Ana Vila-Santa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

André Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

BIO-E PhD Students Aparajita Lahree Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Carina Esteves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

New tools for microbial detection PhD Advisors: Ana Cecília Roque (FCT-UNL) Nowadays, bacterial detection and identification methods take about 24-36h. Early-detection and confinement of the infected individuals are the only way to provide adequate therapy and to control infection spread. Tools for rapid bacterial infections identification are greatly needed. Recent developments on e-noses made bacterial odor analysis possible reducing considerably the detection times. However, these sensors usually present limited stability and selectivity, and require aggressive conditions during processing and operation. A new class of stimuli-responsive materials responding to the presence of volatile organic compounds has been developed by Roque’s group and overcome these limitations. This work aims to improve its signal acquisition developing new stimuli-responsive materials, which can be tailored towards easy and non-invasive POC devices for fast bacterial detection.

Fernando Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

The role of iron uptake on Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm formation and virulence PhD Advisors: Nuno Cerca (UMinho), Holger Rohde (University of Hamburg), Manuel Vilanova (University of Porto) Staphylococcus epidermidis is a common bacterial coloniser of the human skin, also regarded as one of the main etiological agents in nosocomial bloodstream infections. The ability to form biofilms, highly structured communities of microorganisms, is by far the major known determinant in the pathogenesis of S. epidermidis infections. Notwithstanding the important discoveries regarding the molecular basis of biofilm formation in S. epidermidis, several questions remain to be elucidated. Recent results have pointed out the importance of iron acquisition for S. epidermidis biofilms survival in human blood. In this work, the involvement of iron uptake mechanisms in S. epidermidis biofilm formation and pathogenesis will be evaluated by constructing specific mutants, and further study of their biofilm formation properties and interaction with different host immune effectors.

BIO-E PhD Students João Vítor Oliveira

2015/2016

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Anaerobic digestion at moderate pressure: a novel approach for valorization of recalcitrant wastes PhD Advisors: Madalena Alves (UMinho), Maria Alcina Pereira (UMinho) Anaerobic digestion (AD) is considered a mature technology, sustained by several applications at full-scale. However, in most of AD applications there is still opportunity for process optimization. Aspects related to biogas upgrading will impact significantly further diffusion of the AD technology. Biogas upgrading for injection into the Natural Gas grid requires increasing the calorific value to over 30.2 MJ/(Nm3). In addition, a pressure exceeding 0.8 MPa, a dew point decrease, removal of carbon dioxide, ammonia, and hydrogen sulphide, and methane content above 95% are required. Performing an AD at moderate pressure (ADMP) it is possible to approach these requirements due to small dissolution of methane when compared with the other gases. An innovative approach for ADMP is proposed, aiming the production of high-grade biogas in a single step.

Luís Dias da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Downstream Processing of viruses and VLPs – Development of a scalable and economically viable processb PhD Advisors: José Paulo Mota (FCT-UNL) and Cristina Peixoto (ITQB-UNL) Viruses and virus-like particles (VLPs) are becoming extremely relevant therapeutic solutions. Thus, the production and recovery process of this biomolecules must be efficient and reproducible. The aim of this PhD thesis is to eliminate the current downstream processing bottleneck through a combination of new chromatographic processes, high throughput experimentation techniques, and computer-aided process design tools. With the application of continuous and integrated unit operations, such as the chromatographic steps, in the purification scheme of biopharmaceuticals it is possible to reduce the chromatographic media volume and buffer consumption per unit of productivity, and increase product recovery. In this PhD we study the implementation of integrated, continuous and quasi-continuous countercurrent chromatography in the purification of viruses and VLPs.

Mafalda Moleirinho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

BIO-E PhD Students Maria Costa

2015/2016

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Mateusz Marchel Nationality: Polish Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Nuno Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Rita Pires Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

BIO-E PhD Alumni Ana Platzgummer

2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-Doc researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL)

Bioreactor culture systems for the expansion of mouse embryonic stem cells PhD Advisors: Joaquim Sampaio Cabral (IST-UL), Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), Margarida Diogo (IST-UL)

Carlos Rodriguez Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-Doc researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL)

Design and operation of bioreactor systems for the expansion and controlled neural differentiation of stem cells PhD Advisors: Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL), Maria Margarida Diogo (IST-UL), Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL)

Daniela Couto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: CEO at Cell2B Advanced Therapeutics S.A., Portugal

Emergence of tissue engineering and disruption of product development in healthcare PhD Advisors: Manuel Heitor (IST-UL), Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL), Luis Perez Breva (MIT), Charles Cooney (MIT)

Daniela Coutinho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Consultant at SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, Portugal

Micro/nano-scale strategies for engineering in vitro the cellular microenvironment using biodegradable biomaterials PhD Advisors: Nuno Neves (UMinho), Manuela Gomes (UMinho), Ali Khademhosseini (MIT)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Débora Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Project Developer at Innovayt A/S, Portugal

Spectroscopy systems for the detection of gastrointestinal dysplasia PhD Advisors: Graça Maria Henriques Minas (UMinho), José Higino Gomes Correia (UMinho)

Eunice Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: R&D Drug Product Development at Hovione, Portugal

Bioactive beads for local sensing of proteases in 3D engineered tissues PhD Advisors: Ana Aguiar Ricardo (FCT-UNL), Paula T Hammond (MIT)

Isabel Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Innovation and R&D product manager at Renova SA, Portugal

Biodesulfurization of crude oil by whole cells of rhodoccocus erythropolis PhD Advisors: M.R. Aires Barros (IST-UL), D.I.C. Wang (MIT)

Mariana Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Consultant at SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação, Portugal

Photonic platform for bioelectric signal acquisition on wearable devices PhD Advisors: Paulo Mendes (UMinho), J. Higino Correia (UMinho), Rajeev Ram (MIT)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Pedro Andrade

2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: COO at Cell2B Advanced Therapeutics, SA

Novel approaches for the isolation and ex-vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells from human umbilical cord blood for cell therapy PhD Advisors: Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL)

Agnieszka Joskowiak

2012

Nationality: Pole Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Integration of light sensor arrays with microfluidic networks to scale down 2D fluorescence spectroscopy for high throughput organism/cell condition analysis PhD Advisors: João Pedro Conde (IST-UL), Duarte Miguel Prazeres (IST-UL), Marko Topič (University of Ljubljana)

Ana Bila da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-Doc Researcher at the Centre for Molecular ans Structural Biomedicine (CBME), Universidade do Algarve

Acoustic Biosensors for Biitechnology and Biomedical Applications - A Quartz Crystal Microbalance as a platform for Mammalian cell sensing PhD Advisors: Guilherme N.M Ferreira (Universidade do Algarve), Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL)

Andre Fialho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Manager at Philips Healthcare, The Netherlands

Knowledge discovery in intensive care unit shock patients PhD Advisors: Joao Sousa (IST-UL), Stan Finkelstein (MIT)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Carlos Machado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Novel modelling formalisms and simulation tools in computational biosystems PhD Advisors: Eugénio Ferreira (UMinho), Isabel Rocha (UMinho), Bruce Tidor (MIT)

Cláudia Vistas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Optical biosensors for biomedical applications: Detection of Semiconductor Nanocrystals Labeled HIV-1 Proteins with Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Photodetectors PhD Advisors: Guilherme Ferreira (Universidade do Algarve), João Pedro Conde (IST-UL)

Cristiana Paulo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Chief Technology Officer at Matera, Lda., Cantanhede, Portugal

Permanent antifungal materials and coatings: bioactivity and cytotoxicity characterization PhD Advisors: Lino Ferreira (CNC-UC), Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL)

David Malta Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: President and co-Founder of Cell2B , Portugal

Vivo engineered combinatorial u-environments for stem cell fate studies. The balance between stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. PhD Advisors: Cláudia Silva (IST-UL), Joaquim Sampaio Cabral (IST-UL), Sangeeta Narain Bhatia (MIT)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Federico Cismondi

2012

Nationality: Argentian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: CEO at doDOC Corp.

Preprocessing and misclassifying issues in clinical data sets for prediction and intervention PhD Advisors: João Sousa (IST-UL), Stan Neil Finkelstein (MIT), Shane Raymond Reti (Harvard Medical School)

Filipe Gracio Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Bioinformatician at Guys and St Thomas Hospital (NHS and Kings College London), UK

Variability in biological systems: Modeling consequences and applications PhD Advisors: Bruce Tidor (MIT), Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL)

Maria d’Orey Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Engineer at RoboSavvy Ltd.

Multibody dynamics and control of hybrid active orthoses PhD Advisors: Miguel Pedro Tavares da Silva (IST-UL), Dava Newman (MIT), Jorge Martins (IST-UL)

Rui Tostões Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Research Associate at University College London, UK

Bioprocess engineering of Liver cells for drug testing applications PhD Advisors: Paula Alves (IBET), Manuel Carrondo (IBET), Daniel Wang (MIT)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Swarnadeepa Pandian Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at MIT, USA

Flailer - a myosin Va neurological mutant displays autistic-like behavior and synaptic defects PhD Advisors: Ramiro Almeida(CNC), Martha Constantine-Paton (MIT)

Ana Lúcia Rosário

2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Post-Doctoral Fellow at ITQB-UNL, Portugal

Functional and structural studies of two enzymes: membrane bound kinase and Z-DNA/Z-RNA-binding protein PhD Advisors: Margarida Archer (ITQB-UNL), Li-Huei Tsai (MIT)

Filipa Castro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at IBB - Institute for Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Portugal

Process Intensification for the production of hydroxyapatite nanoparticles PhD Advisors: José Teixeira (UMinho), António Vicente (UMinho)

Geisa Gonçalves Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-doctoral fellow at Kyushu University - Japan

Rational engineering of Escherichia coli strains for plasmid biopharmaceutical manufacturing PhD Advisors: Duarte Miguel Prazeres (IST-UL), Gabriel A Monteiro (IST-UL), Kristala Prather (MIT)

BIO-E PhD Alumni João Guerreiro

2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Life Sciences Consultant

Strategies for myogenic differentiation of adult stem cells towards therapeutic applications PhD Advisors: Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL), Claudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), Daniel Anderson (MIT), Robert Langer (MIT)

Maria Eiriz Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Science and Technology Management Fellowship at Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Migration and differentiation of neuronal precursors in the postnatal brain: insights from the subventricular zone and cerebellum PhD Advisors: João Malva (FMUC), Liliana Bernardino (CNC-UC), Armen Saghatelyan (Centre Reserche Universite Laval - Robert Giffard), Manuel Nunes da Ponte (FCTUNL)

Maria Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Head of Adhesive Technologies at Gecko Biomedical, France

Platforms for tissue reconstruction: Compliant biomaterials for local drug delivery and tissue adhesion PhD Advisors: Lino Ferreira (CNC-UC), Jeffrey Karp (MIT), Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL)

Michaela Simcikova Nationality: Czech Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Project manager at 5M, Czech Republic

Development of a process for production and purification of minicircles for biopharmaceutical applications PhD Advisors: Gabriel Monteiro (IST-UL)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Nelson Monteiro Nationality: Cape Verdean Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Postdoc at Tufts University, USA

Development of advanced release systems for stem cell based therapies PhD Advisors: Nuno Neves (UMinho)

Rimenys Carvalho Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-doctoral at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Phenylboronic acid as ligand for multimodal chromatography PhD Advisors: Raquel Aires-Barros (IST-UL), Ana M. Azevedo (IST-UL), Steven M. Cramer (RPI)

Roberto Gallardo Nationality: Chilean Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile

New strategies for the production of butanol and 1,3-propanediol PhD Advisors: Ligia Rodrigues (UMinho), Madalena Alves (UMinho)

Sezin Aday Nationality: Turkish Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at CNC (Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular), Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Platforms to Modulate the Activity of Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Their Progenies PhD Advisors: Lino da Silva Ferreira (CNC-UC), Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), Robert Langer (MIT)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Shantesh Hede

2013

Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Research Scholar at The Asia Institute, India-South Korea

An approach to develop sustainable medical devices PhD Advisors: Luis Ferreira (UMinho), Manuel Nunes (UMinho)

Tatiana Aguiar Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Post Doctoral Researcher at CEB-UMinho, Portugal

Understanding the biotechnological potential of Ashbya gossypii PhD Advisors: Merja Penttilä (VTT), Lucília Domingues (UMinho)

Ana Domingues

2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

2ndSKIN - A Programmable Second Skin Soft Exoskeleton PhD Advisors: Jorge Martins(IST-UL), Miguel Silva (IST-UL), Dava Newman (MIT)

Ana Lima Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Research Scientist at Nano Fiber-Matrices B.V.,The Netherlands

Development of natural-based hydrogel particles using a biomimetic methodology PhD Advisors: João F. Mano (3B´s/UMinho)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Iris Batalha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge in collaboration with MedImmune, UK

Engineered Structures for the Profiling and Enrichment of the Phosphoproteome PhD Advisors: Ana Roque (FCT-UNL), Christopher Robin (University of Cambridge), Olga Iranzo (ITQB-UNL)

Joana Coelho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Director of Analytics at HeartGenetics, Portugal

Towards a risk assessment model for biocide use PhD Advisors: Ana Teresa Freitas (INESC-ID/IST-UL), Marco Oggioni (University of Leicester)

Joana Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Post-Doc

Design and construction of a new biosynthetic pathway for the production of curcuminoids in Escherichia coli PhD Advisors: Ligia Rodrigues (UMinho), Leon Kluskens (UMinho), Kristala Prather (MIT)

Jorge Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Portugal

Impedance spectroscopy analysis of protein-surface interaction using acoustic and interdigital label-free sensors PhD Advisors: Guilherme Ferreira (IBB-CBME/Universidade do Algarve), Joaquim Cabral (IBB/IST-UL)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Nuno Faria

2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-Doc Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL), Portugal

Yeast mannosylerythritol lipids from lignocellulose: a novel strategy for the production of jet biofuel PhD Advisors: Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), César Fonseca (LNEG), Bruce Tidor (MIT)

Paulo Luzio de Melo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Co-founder at Aspersus Innovation

A Novel Functional Electrical Stimulation System and Strategies for Motor Rehabilitation PhD Advisors: Miguel Tavares da Silva (IST-UL), Dava Newman (MIT), Jorge Martins (IST-UL)

Rúben Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Scientist at R&D Drug Product Development, at Hovione FarmaCiencia SA, PORTUGAL

Data-based Modeling and Classification to Improve Outcomes in the Intensive Care Unit PhD Advisors: João Sousa (IST-UL), Stan Neil Finkelstein (MIT)

Rui Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Head of development at SilicoLife, Portugal

Improvement of in silico strain engineering methods in Saccharomyces cerevisiae PhD Advisors: Isabel Rocha (UMinho), Jens Nielsen (Chalmers University of Technology)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Sara Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at 3B’s Research Group

Novel 3D scaffolds modified with nanostructured polymeric coatings or micro/nanofibers for tissue engineering applications PhD Advisors: João F. Mano (UMinho); Rui L. Reis (UMinho)

Silvia Mihaila Nationality: Romanian Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Postdoctoral fellow at Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands

Routes to Advanced Vascularized Tissue Engineering Constructs PhD Advisors: Manuela Estima Gomes (3B’s Research Group/UMinho), Alexandra Marques (3Bs Research Group/UMinho)

Ana Rodrigues

2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Green oil production from alternative sources PhD Advisors: Susana Barreiros (FCTUNL), Alexandre Paiva(FCTUNL)

Ana Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow at 3B’s Research Group

Multifunctional nano-in-micro formulations for lung cancer theragnosis PhD Advisors: Ana Aguiar Ricardo (FCTUNL), Ilídio Correia (Universidade da Beira Interior)

BIO-E PhD Alumni António Vicente

2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Research Member at CENIMAT/CEMOP

Development of nanomorphous silicon solar cells on ceramic substrates with biomedical application PhD Advisors: Rodrigo Martins (FCT-UNL); Hugo Águas (FCT-UNL)

Fabiana Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Cell Culture Development Scientist at Lonza

Novel Cell Factories for the production of complex bioproducts: a synthetic biology approach for improved product stoichiometries PhD Advisors: Paula Alves (FCTUNL), Kristala Prather (MIT)

Inês Isidro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Co-founder and researcher at MediaOmics

Cell functional enviromics: Applications to Pichia pastoris PhD Advisors: Rui Oliveira (FCTUNL)

Irina Simões Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Tissue Engineering Support at MRC Prion Unit - London, United Kingdom

Tissue Engineering Approaches to Stress Urinary Incontinence using Acellular Urethra Bioscaffolds PhD Advisors: Claudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), Pedro Baptista (Centro de Investigacion Biomedica Aragon, Spain)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Javad Hatami Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow at 3B´s Research Group (Biomaterials, Biodegradables and Biomimetics) Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal

Engineering the microenvironment of human umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells towards efficient megakaryocytic lineage differentiation and platelet production ex-vivo PhD Advisors: Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), Cláudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL)

José Faria Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Computational Biologist at The University of Chicago, USA

Modeling Microbes: New Methods for Integrated Metabolic and Regulatory Network Reconstruction PhD Advisors: Isabel Rocha (UMinho), Miguel Rocha (UMinho), Christopher Henry (Argonne National Laboratory)

Marta Cerejo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer Officer at RIA, FCT NOVA

Contribution to drug discovery and development for tauopathies using yeast as a model PhD Advisors: Ana Cristina Rego (CNC-UC), Helena Vieira (FCUL/BIOALVO), Manuel Nunes da Ponte (FCTUNL)

Monica Coelho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters, UK

Immunomudulatory Activity of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells PhD Advisors: Joaquim Cabral (IST-UL), Francesco Dazzi (Imperial College)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Paulo Maia

2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Head of Development at SilicoLife

Algorithms and tools for in silico design of cell factories PhD Advisors: Isabel Rocha (UMinho); Miguel Rocha (UMinho)

Pedro Evangelista Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Novel approaches for dynamic modelling of E. coli and their applications in metabolic engineering PhD Advisors: Isabel Rocha (UMinho); Miguel Rocha (UMinho); Bruce Tidor (MIT)

Sara Matias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Monitoring serotonergic neuronal activity in behaving rodents PhD Advisors: Zachary F. Mainen (Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown); Manuel Nunes da Ponte (REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química, FCT-UNL)

Sofia Rebelo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Post-Doctoral researcher at iBET - Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica

Development of 3D in vitro models for prediction of hepatic metabolism and toxicity PhD Advisors: Paula M. Alves (iBET/IQTB-UNL); Catarina Brito (iBET/IQTB-UNL)

BIO-E PhD Alumni Susana Palma Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa Current position: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at FCT-UNL, Portugal

Engineered MRI nanoprobes based on superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles PhD Advisors: Ana Cecília Roque (FCTUNL)

Ana Dias

2016

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova Lisboa

Exploring new protein-based scaffolds for bioengineering applications PhD Advisors: Cecilia Roque (FCT-UNL); Olga Iranzo (former at ITQB- UNL, Oeiras, Portugal at present in Institut des Sciences Moléculaires de Marseille, Aix Marseille Université CNRS, Marseille)

Ana Guedes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Analysis of the gene regulatory network underlying pluripotenciality in mouse embryonic stem cells PhD Advisors: Domingos Henrique (IMM), Elsa Abrances(IMM), Claudia Lobato da Silva (IST-UL), Arjun Raj (Univ.Pennsilvania)

BIO-E Masters Alumni Abigail Horn

2010

Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: PhD Candidate, MIT

Carlos Boto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: doDOC Corp, USA & Portugal

Pedro Gouveia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Franklin De Nóbrega

2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Inês Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (EDAM-LTI)

Pedro Pinto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2012

Ana Coito

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: PhD Student in Neurosciences at University of Geneva

João Monteiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Universidade do Minho

BIO-E Masters Alumni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: PhD Student Imperial College London

Andreia Pimenta Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (BIO)

2013

Anabela Areias

David Botequim Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (BIO)

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Fátima Pinto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

2014

Cátia Salgado

Rui Traquete Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (BIO)

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (BIO)

Matilde Melo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa Current position: Bluepharma

2015

Luis Dias da Silva

Sustainable Energy Systems The need for a new development paradigm make Sustainable Energy Systems (SES) a hot topic on the agenda for Industrial Development, Public Policy and Research. Improving the flexibility of the energy sector and its long-term performance requires new methods and policies. Engagement with industry and governmental agencies on specific projects will support such a change. The study of SES involves a framework characterized by multiple scales, from the global/international level down to the local level of supply and demand. Action should be fostered by different policy instruments based on solid knowledge in multiple fields, including economics, social science, environmental sciences, engineering, technology, policy, and systems design. With this in sight, the MIT Portugal SES PhD Program focuses on energy systems within a multidisciplinary framework, including engineering and economics, at the level of energy systems analysis, ICT, and design. The graduate-level training prepares students to Foster technology integration, so that energy demand is fulfilled with a minimum use of non-renewable resources; Establish markets for new technology, clarifying the role of industrial and government policy in directing pathways to future sustainability; Develop innovative control and management solutions for electricity systems under the Smart Grid concept, involving the participation of all players with a large integration of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions; Promote new forms of interaction among universities, enterprises, government, and society for the identification and implementation of sustainable energy policies and technology innovations. A key to the success of the Program has been the highly collaborative association among Portuguese universities and MIT. This has promoted not only educational and scientific connections between universities and companies, but activities fostering entrepreneurship. A focus on energy system research, design, and analysis, as well as leadership and entrepreneurship, provides graduates with the tools to be at the forefront of SES development. The Program aims to educate a new generation of leaders with expertise in energy systems and policy. Graduates who have these advanced capabilities in sustainable energy will contribute to Portugalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competitiveness and innovation capacity, supporting growth of the Portuguese economy. Devising strategies to cost-effectively meet SES challenges requires new methodologies that capture the dynamics and drivers of energy demand, including consumer behavior, energy resources (especially renewable resources), and the networks that connect supply to demand. Research topics focus on Energy Planning including Economics, Sustainable Built Environment and Smart Energy Networks. The SES program has attracted students from five continents. SES PhD graduates are employed at international research centers (JRC of the European Commission, UFRJ Brasil, Business Schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Energy Centre University of Auckland New Zealand, Chalmers University), Portuguese research centers (INESC TEC, LARSYS), and International companies (Tractebel Belgium, REN-Portuguese TSO, EFACEC and ISA in Portugal). Students and Faculty also found several start-up companies such as SDSIL, WATT-IS and URBMET at UL, PRE-WIND at UP and UL, SMARTWATT at UP and WSBP Electronics at UC.

Affiliated Institutions Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências (FCUL) Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (ISEG) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Economia Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCTUC) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Participating R&D institutes INESC-TEC (UP), LAETA (UP, UL - IST, UC), LARSYS (UL - FCUL, UL - IST), INESC Coimbra (UC), CICC (UC), SESUL (UL - FCUL), IDL (UL - FCUL) and CESA (UL - ISEG)

Industrial Affiliates EFACEC, Portugal Telecom; REN, Redes Energéticas Nacionais; EDP, Energias de Portugal

Faculty PhD Director and Coordinator @FEUP: Manuel Matos PhD Director @MIT: Bob Armstrong PhD Coordinator @IST: Mário Costa PhD Coordinator @FCUL: João Serra PhD Coordinator @FCTUC: António Gomes Martins

Adélio Manuel Rodrigues Gaspar (FCTUC) Almerindo Domingues Ferreira (FCTUC) Álvaro Filipe Peixoto Cardoso de Oliveira Gomes (FCTUC) Álvaro Henrique Rodrigues (FEUP) Álvaro Martins (ISEG) Ana Isabel Lopes Estanqueiro (FCUL) Ana Isabel Palmero Marrero (FEUP) Aníbal Traça de Almeida (FCTUC) António Falcão (IST) António José Barreto Tadeu (FCTUC) António Luiz Moura Joyce (FCUL) António Manuel de Oliveira Gomes Martins (FCTUC) António Manuel Gameiro Lopes (FCTUC) António Rui de Almeida Figueiredo (FCTUC)

António Sarmento (IST) Antonio Vallêra (FCUL) Armando Carlos Figueiredo Coelho de Oliveira (FEUP) Armando Manuel da Silva Santos (FEUP) Carlos Alberto Henggeler de Carvalho Antunes (FCTUC) Carlos Manuel Pereira da Silva (ISEG) Carlos Silva (IST) Chiang C. Mei (MIT) Cláudio Domingos Martins Monteiro (FEUP) Clito Félix Alves Afonso (FEUP) David Marks (MIT) Denny Ellerman (MIT) Dick Yue (MIT) Divo Augusto Alegria Quintela (FCTUC)

Dulce Helena Roseiro Boavida (FCUL) Eduardo Jorge Gonçalves Barata (FCTUC) Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes (FEUP) Fausto Miguel Cereja Seixas Freire (FCTUC) Filipe Duarte Santos (FCUL) Filomena Pinto (FCUL) Gabriel Pita (IST) Gabriela Ventura Alves da Silva (FEUP) Gerald Bernard Scheblé (FEUP) Guilherme Carrilho da Graça (FCUL) Humberto Jorge (FCTUC) Ibrahim Gulyurtlu (FCUL) Isabel Cabrita (FCUL) Isabel Mendes (ISEG) James Kirtley (MIT) Joana Pais (ISEG) João Almeida Serra (FCUL) João Carlos Namorado Clímaco (FCTUC) João Duque (ISEG) João Manuel Coutinho Rodrigues (FCTUC) João Parente (IST) João Paulo Tomé Saraiva (FEUP) João Peças Lopes (FEUP) João Toste de Azevedo (IST) João Ventura (IST) John Fernández (MIT) John Parsons (MIT) Jorge Maia Alves (FCUL) Jorge Manuel Correia Pereira (FEUP) Jorge Vasconcelos (IST) José António Oliveira Bandeirinha (FCTUC) José António Raimundo Mendes da Silva (FCTUC) José Joaquim da Costa (FCTUC) José Luís Pinto Pereira da Silva (FEUP) José Manuel Baranda Moreira da Silva Ribeiro (FCTUC) José Maria C.S. André (IST) José Nuno Moura Marques Fidalgo (FEUP) José Rui da Rocha Pinto Ferreira (FEUP) Joseph Ferreira (MIT)

Killian Lobato (FCUL) Leon Glicksman (MIT) Leslie Norford (MIT) Luís Adriano Alves de Sousa Oliveira (FCTUC) Luís Miguel Candido Dias (FCTUC) Luís Miguel Guilherme da Cruz (FCTUC) Luís Roriz (IST) Luísa Caldas (IST) Manuel António Cerqueira da Costa Matos (FEUP) Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC) Manuel Dias de Castro (FEUP) Marco P. Seabra dos Reis (FCTUC) Maria Helena Lopes (FCUL) Maria Isabel Morais Torres (FCTUC) Maria João Rodrigues (IST) Maria Teresa Costa Pereira da Silva Ponce de Leão (FEUP) Mário Costa (IST) Michael Triantafyllou (MIT) Miguel Centeno Brito (FCUL) Muradali Valimamade Ibrahimo (ISEG) Patrícia Pereira da Silva (FCTUC) Paulo Ferrão (IST) Pedro Coelho (IST) Pedro M. A. Miranda (FCUL) Pedro Miguel Abelha (FCUL) Pedro Saraiva (FCTUC) Pierre Hollmuller (FCUL) Richard Larson (MIT) Roberto Gambôa (FCUL) Samuel Niza (IST) Stephen Connors (MIT) Stuart Batterman (FCTUC) Szabolcs Varga (FEUP) Tânia Sousa (IST) Tiago Cardão-Pito (ISEG) Tiago Domingos (IST) Tiago Farias (IST) Vitor Manuel Silva Leal (FEUP) Vladimiro Henrique Barrosa Pinto de Miranda (FEUP)

How has MPP contributed to your career development? MPP broadened my knowledge of the energy sector and allowed me to better combine a wide range of technical and business skills. The program provided me with the opportunity to greatly enlarge my network with other distinct professionals and scholars in the energy sector of the Sector. Ana Costa, Executive Master

Graduating from the MIT Portugal Program was the key lever to help me move up to a business management position in my company. It provided me the unique expertise and vision in sustainable urban systems that allowed me to transfer from the Portugal business unit to the head office of Veolia to work on a worldwide level. Antรณnio Neves da Silva, Executive Master

Finishing the Ph.D. program in MPP constituted an important step in my professional career. Besides the knowledge acquired during the four-year program, MPP helped me build a large network of contacts, which will enhance my professional life henceforth. MPP provided me the opportunity to access some of the first class researchers, educators, and laboratories in both Europe and the USA. Diego Issicaba, PhD

The master degree in Sustainable Energy Systems provided me the skills, knowledge, and vision focused on new professional and business opportunities related to environmental and energy issues. Based on my personal motivation and context after the course, combined with the tools developed there, I progressed and consolidated my career in a sustainable way, and now I am part of an ambitious project that designs and constructs houses and living spaces settling in a sustainable and modular building technology developed by our company OCTO, in alternative and competing in the market with conventional and traditional methods of building. Duarte Pereira, Executive Master

The MIT Portugal Program has allowed me to transition from a background in civil engineering to the area of energy systems and has helped me open doors in world-class research institutions. In the private sector, it has also contributed to my career progression by providing me with additional skills and competences that expanded my areas of intervention. Gonรงalo Cardoso, PhD

MIT Portugal Program opened for me new opportunities. The program is internationally recognized as one of the leading programs tackling innovative research in energy systems. I had the opportunity to collaborate with excellent professors and colleagues and to work on interesting projects. I learnt a lot and I established many great contacts. I believe these are fundamental achievements that strongly support my career development. Hana Gerbelovรก, PhD

The affiliation with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology definitely gave me more exposure to US headhunters and recruiters. Joรฃo Valentim dos Santos, Executive Master

MPP opened my professional horizons, giving me access to an education of excellence and enhancing a very wide contact network. Lara Ferreira , Executive Master

After the MPP, I decided to launch a project in the energy field - brain-e, an online community platform for energy management in households. Two years later, I decided to quit my full-time job and invest myself as CEO in developing brain-e further. LuĂs Guerreiro, Executive Master

The MPP offered me the unique chance to deepen my technical expertise in the fields of energy systems, strengthen analytical skills, thrive innovative thinking and boost stick-to-itiveness. Miguel Moreira da Silva, PhD

The program provided a holistic approach to renewable energy systems, a good alumni network, and working relationship with the university. Natalie Samovich, Executive Master

At the time, MPP was very important for my career. I was responsible for energy clients at Novabase and had no deep knowledge about the topic. It was also important to develop my network in the area. PowerGrid a company that I found, which specialized in IT solutions for the Energy Industry, is all about what I learned in MPP. Nelson Teodoro, Executive Master

The PhD program in MPP gave me a broad and multidisciplinary perspective about the energy sector, as well as a detailed knowledge in the Energy in Buildings field. Definitely, these research years and the experience at MIT contributed to the development of several skills, especially in the area of Energy Efficiency, Building Thermal Simulation, and Building Energy Retrofit. Based on this knowledge, I’m currently enrolled in ADENE, in the supervision of the Buildings Certification Scheme, Management of National/European Projects, and Development of Energy Efficiency Studies to support Public Policies and the Design of Incentive programs. Nuno Clímaco, PhD

MPP has enabled the development of research activities with leading universities and researchers, giving me access to industrial partners and relevant projects. Patrícia Baptista, PhD

The MPP has given me the opportunity to expand my knowledge in the field of ocean energy by integrating technical aspects with economic and policy perspectives of sustainable energy systems. Rui Gomes, PhD

I’m working on solar desalination in Saudi Arabia, the main market at a global scale in the desalination area. The work developed during my Ph.D. in the MIT Portugal Program was a direct path to the work I’m doing. The interaction with MIT is also always seen as a plus when contacting different companies. Sérgio Casimiro, PhD

SES PhD Students Filipe Rodrigues

2007/2008

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

A Smart Home Energy Storage PhD Advisors: Carlos Cardeira (IST-UL), Leon Glisckman (MIT)

António Ferreira dos Santos

2008/2009

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Defining new control and managment solutions for security assessment and preventive PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Manuel Matos (FEUP), James Kirtley (MIT), Marija Ilic (CMU)

Ariovaldo Lopes de Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

An Integrated Assessment Methodology Applied To The Brazilian Bioethanol Case PhD Advisors: Carlos Henggeler (FCTUC), Fausto Freire (FCTUC)

Gonçalo Mendes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Microgrids as Key for Energy Efficiency: A Multi-Country Investigation of Community-scale Power Systems’ Adoption Patterns Under Different Demand, Climate and Regulatory Characteristics PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Chris Marnay (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory), Christos Ioakimidis (Deusto Institute of Technology) The research, in cooperation with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from the University of California, Berkeley, addresses the economic optimization of community-scale microgrids Distributed Energy Resources (DER) generation mix in case-studies of Portugal, the U.S. and Japan. The approach is customer-centered and intents to provide valuable insights to political decision makers, legislators and urban planners, on which directions to take in the design of modern cities, accommodating the new distributed energy paradigm.

SES PhD Students Hrvoje Keko Nationality: Croatian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Generation Coordination in Complex Systems with Stochastic Reservoirs PhD Advisors: Vladimiro Miranda (FEUP) The thesis aim is to develop an optimization algorithm, capable of coordinating the electricity production in electric power systems with a large share of renewable energy sources such as wind power and stochastic energy storages. Contributions from numerous electric vehicle batteries connected to the grid form a stochastic reservoir: its operational limits and the amount of stored energy exhibit stochastic behaviour. The optimal short-term generation coordination problem is solved using a hybrid of evolutionary computation algorithm and decomposition techniques.

Nelson Brito Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Upgrade Opportunities for Ancient Buildings in Historic Centres PhD Advisors: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC), José António Bandeirinha (FCTUC) This Ph.D. investigation explores Traditional Knowledge (TK) practices embedded in ancient buildings to achieve “nearly Zero” goals. Using a residential case study in Coimbra´s UNESCO Heritage area, a “deep assessment” was performed using laboratory/on-site tests and monitoring, followed by intervention proposals evaluation within the IEA EBC Annex 56 on “Cost-effective Energy and Carbon Emission Optimization in Building Renovation”. It is demonstrated that a “deep assessment” can yield better (and less expensive) results than a “deep retrofit”. Scaled up to fit Historic Centres market reality, “Common Efficacy” proposes a strategy to place —again— ancient buildings in the centre of our expectations, to harness local EE potential and to “ICT–tune” TK into our daily practices. (Awarded 1st prize in “Urban Services & Connected City” category, video @ dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.1422.4086)

António Abreu

2009/2010

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Reducing primary energy in power systems using a preditor corrector methodology PhD Advisors: João Freire (IST-UL), Pedro Santos (Academia Militar) A new methodology to reduce energy losses in electricity networks is presented . Abacus is a known predictor broker that takes into account the parameters of the power grid in particular with generation, transmission and load line. It is less a theorem that identifies the corrective action to lower consumption of primary energy. A prothotype was developed and tested.

SES PhD Students Donald Scott Nationality: Canadian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Patterns of Innovation and Entrepreneurism in the Modern Energy Sector PhD Advisors: Pedro Saraiva (FCTUC), Marco Reis (FCTUC)

Helena Monteiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Extended life cycle assessment of single-family houses in the Mediterranean climate PhD Advisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC), John Fernandez (MIT) This research goal is to support the development of single-family houses in a Mediterranean climate, considering a life cycle (LC) perspective in order to avoid problem-shifting, and it has two objectives: 1) to comparatively assess LC energy and environmental impacts of different passive construction measures for a house; 2) to assess the influence of alternative Portuguese locations and expand the conclusions to a Mediterranean context. A LC model has been implemented for a house including 3 LC phases: construction, maintenance, operational (heating and cooling). An integrated life-cycle assessment and building dynamic simulation of the dwelling has been performed in order to assess passive construction measures, such as: the envelope insulation level, the total ventilation rates, the use of single or double glazing, and the influence of different exterior wall solutions.

Hermano Bernardo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Eficiência energética em edifícios de serviços. PhD Advisors: Adélio Gaspar (FCTUC), António Gomes Martins (FCTUC)

SES PhD Students João Santos

2009/2010

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Determination of the role of electricity storage on Zero Energy Houses connected to the grid and development of electricity management schemes. PhD Advisors: Aníbal Almeida (FCTUC), Pedro Moura (FCTUC) An assessment of the electricity storage capacity role considering it management together with the demand and the generation in order to achieve maximum electrical efficiency. This will have a local impact but can also influence on the grid. A characterization of the demand and generation profile of the house must be done allowing evaluating the role and benefits of the storage capacity. Then the way of managing the electricity in the house will be focused for optimizing the utilization of the capacities of generation and storage to satisfy the demand from the house and from the grid. Some schemes will be considered for the electricity management addressing distinct objectives and algorithms will be developed to implement these schemes.

Nilton Oliveira Nationality: French Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Indoor swiming pools - na approach to the building thermal simulation PhD Advisors: Adélio Gaspar (FCTUC)

Pedro Fazenda Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Energy Efficiency Monitoring and Management to Promote Sustainable Behaviors PhD Advisors: Pedro Urbano de Almeida Lima (IST-UL), Una-May O’Reilly (MIT) Smart buildings are expected to extend beyond just simple automation to include advanced automatic management systems capable of interacting in real-time. This research focuses on of enhancing the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system. Considering that tenants tend to forget to adjust the operation of this system appropriately and that, in many spaces, the conditioning requirements are not adjusted to the context of those spaces, the result is unnecessary energy waste. An optimal supervisory control for such a system should consider the cost of energy, activity schedules, occupancy patterns, the individual preference of each user, and any other information that might contribute to increase performance. The result will be an adaptive controller that learns the statistical regularities of the environment and operates to meet comfort requirements, while optimizing energy costs.

SES PhD Students Ricardo Abrantes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Study of the pre-compression cycle applied to internal combustion engines using oxygen and hydrogen PhD Advisors: Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC)

Rita Paleta Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Remote Autonomous Energy Systems Design for Developing Countries PhD Advisors: Carlos Augusto Santos Silva (IST-UL), André Pina (IST-UL) My PhD thesis is focused on rural electrification methodologies, more specifically, from the demand point of view. I expect to achieve not only an efficient electrification methodology by defining sustainable pathways to accomplish it, but also to work on its business model, since I am working directly with an energy services company in their remote electrification projects’ market approach. My goal is to develop a modeling tool able to estimate current and future energy demand of developing countries’ isolated communities, based on development indicators. This tool will be important for electrification projects as it helps to customize solutions for each location depending on the development status and energy resources availability. The aim is to develop a business activity of this area and this tool will give a competitive advantage, when compared to the currently available solutions.

Sophie Zhadeev Nationality: Senegalese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Integration of Distributed Energy Resources in the electric power network PhD Advisors: Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC), Humberto Jorge (FCTUC)

SES PhD Students Vasco Portugal Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Computational Framework to Generate and Optimize the Built Environment | PhD Advisors: Manuel Correia Guedes (IST-UL), Kent Larson (MIT Media Lab), Mark Goulthorpe (MIT) The next generation of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software must add a certain degree of intelligence and information, comprising a number of procedures from parametric to generative strategies, simulation, optimization and information modeling. This thesis shapes a new computational strategy for a broader methodology to develop buildings. It outlines a framework to generate Built Environment (BE) proposing a Building Information Modeling (BIM) cloud-based interface that enables a fully parametric visual programming CAD environment to facilitate assorted information exchange and systematize the process of simulating, optimizing and manufacturing BE. The proposed framework allows the integration of mathematical optimization while allowing the necessary exploration of subjective decisions for design purposes.

Ahmad Karnama

2010/2011

Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Electricity Market Modeling with Electric Vehicles PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Mauro Rosa (INESC Brazil), Frances Sprei (Chalmers University of Technology) The thesis aims to address the problem of large scale deployment of Electric Vehicles (EVs) from an electricity market perspective. An agent-based model for electricity market with EVs (called EMMEV) is developed. The agents are ESCos (Energy Service Companies) and it is assumed that the ESCos in EMMEV can provide at least one of the following energy solutions; power generation, electricity retailing and EV aggregation.

Ana Soares Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

(Near) Real-Time Integrated Management of Residential Energy Resources PhD Advisors: Álvaro Gomes Martins (FCTUC), Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC) The problem addressed in this work consists of designing an evolutionary algorithm to be embedded in a residential Energy Management System (EMS). This EMS will explore the flexibility that domestic end-users have concerning electricity usage and do an integrated optimization of residential energy resources while minimizing the cost of the energy purchased. The targeted energy resources include local generation, shiftable loads, thermostatically controlled loads and storage systems. The multi-objective model considers as objective functions the minimization of the energy cost and the minimization of end-user’s dissatisfaction associated with management strategies. Results have shown that significant savings can be achieved although strongly dependent on the end-user’s willingness to accept automated control.

SES PhD Students Andreia Carreiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

The role of an Energy Box Aggregator PhD Advisors: Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC), Humberto Jorge (FCTUC) The increased penetration of renewable generation in the electric power system has been leading to a higher complexity of grid management due to its inherent intermittency, also with impact on the volatility of electricity prices. Setting the adequate operating reserve levels is one of the main concerns of the System Operator (SO), since the integration of a large share of intermittent generation requires an increased amount of reserve that is needed to balance generation and load. An aggregator has been designed to operate as an intermediary between individual energy management systems (local energy boxes - LEB) and the SO/Energy Market (EM) capable of facilitating a load follows supply strategy in a Smart Grid context.

António Lorena Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Samuel Niza (IST-UL)

Fernando Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

PhD Advisors: Humberto Jorge (FCTUC)

Filipe Serra Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: João Serra (FCUL)

SES PhD Students Hugo Campaniço

2010/2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Pedro Soares (FCUL), Pierre Hollmuller (FCUL)

João Barreiros Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

“1+1=1” - Watts turning water into a crucial challenge in the Food Sector? Shale Gas and Unconventional Fuels make the difference? PhD Advisors: Carlos Santos Silva (IST-UL), Assunção Cristas (UNL), Francisco Gomes da Silva (Instituto Superior Agronomia-UL) New drilling technics (fracking) have opened up the perspective of accessing vast reserves of fossil energy trapped in shale rock formations. However, fracking involves injecting huge amounts of water in a way which might affect water resources. Moreover, energy, water and food are increasingly seen as intimately co-related resources that should be dealt as an integrated system and a strategic issue. Its economic scarcity is expected to affect industries and increase their business risk. Population growth and demographics – exacerbated by climate change, will require higher demand for food and richer dietary regimes, and will introduce further stress into the system. Using System Dynamics modelling, my research will look for efficient ways to guarantee competitiveness and sustainability of food production while facing highly volatile energy and water economic (un)availability.

João Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra

Socio-Economic-Environmental Assessment of Commuting PhD Advisors: Pedro Ramos (FEUC), Luis Cruz (FEUC) Urban population has been growing consistently worldwide, with large metropolitan areas experiencing persistent expansion phenomena. Unsurprisingly these processes are not occurring homogeneously throughout the territories. Over the last decade, population in suburbs has largely increased while the population living in Central Business Districts has shrunk in many large European and American cities. Portugal is not an exception. The main aim of this work is to establish a modelling framework suitable for the regional and national assessment of economic, social and environmental impacts of changes in urban forms and commuting patterns. Accordingly, this research proposes the construction of a commuting satellite account embedded in a Multi-Regional Input-Output framework.

SES PhD Students Luis Castanheira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

PhD Advisors: António Gomes Martins (FCTUC)

Marta Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Energy behaviours as promoters of energy efficiency: An integrative modelling approach PhD Advisors: Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC), Nelson Martins (Universidade Aveiro) My thesis explores the influence of energy behaviours on end-use energy efficiency in the residential sector, as a contribution to a better understanding of this relation and the design of more effective behavioural change interventions and energy efficiency policies. An integrative multidisciplinary modelling approach of the influence of energy behaviours on energy consumption is developed through the combination of methods and techniques from engineering, the social sciences and humanities, including the qualitative and quantitative dimensions of behaviours, namely the impacts on energy consumption. Behavioural adaptations during the transition to smart grids are also explored and real-world case studies are utilised to generate contextualised understanding.

Michal Monit Nationality: Polish Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Patterns and determinants of material consumption of economies PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), André Pina (IST-UL) This thesis studies global material extraction, trade and consumption patterns at country level using regression and visualization techniques. The conducted analyses are rooted in material flow analysis (MFA) and utilize non-proprietary global data on: domestic extraction (DE) and international trade, both 1980-2010, and material footprint (MF), 1990-2008. Log-linear regression methods are used to determine the key drivers of domestic material consumption (DMC). Evolution of equitability and patterns of domestic extraction (DE) is studied using Lorenz curves. The impact of GDP/cap on DMC/cap (total) and MF/cap constituents is studied with respect to time and GDP/cap range using elasticies. Finally, the presented research is placed in a larger context of proposed data- and visualization-enabled opportunities. An applied example with rice flows is published at: ricestudyvis.weebly.com

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SES PhD Students Miguel Heleno Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Provision of advanced Ancillary Services through Demand Side Integration PhD Advisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP), João Peças Lopes (FEUP) In the context of Smart Grids, the intermittence of renewable sources requires new ancillary services. This thesis aims at developing a technical framework on the provision of electricity reserve services through Demand Response (DR) strategies. Methods to quantify the potential of the domestic appliances to provide upward and downward reserve to the system are developed and the market and regulation aspects of DR are discussed.

Nuno Melo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

PhD Advisors: Aníbal Traça de Almeida (FCTUC)

Pedro Vicente Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamics of Arrays of Floating Point - Absorbers Wave Energy Converters PhD Advisors: António Falcão (IST-UL), Luis Gato (IST-UL)

Rita Garcia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Dynamic fleet-based life-cycle assessment: addressing environmental consequences of the introduction of electric vehicles in Portugal PhD Advisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC) Electric vehicles (EVs) have been promoted as an alternative to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, fossil fuel dependence, and urban pollution caused by the transportation sector; however, a large scale adoption of EVs faces significant challenges. This research aims to develop a dynamic fleet-based life-cycle framework to assess the effects on environmental impacts of the introduction of EVs in a fleet, focusing on GHG emissions. The framework combines fleet analysis and dynamic life-cycle modelling of vehicles to investigate the displacement of conventional vehicles over time, and consequential life-cycle assessment of electricity to assess the changes induced in the electricity system due to EV charging. The analysis focuses on the case of introducing battery electric vehicles in the Portuguese light-duty fleet.

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SES PhD Students Tiago Duarte Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: António Sarmento (IST-UL), Jason Jonkman (NREL), Marco Aurélio de Araújo Alves (WAVEC)

Adriano Granadeiro

2011/2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Alexandre Freire Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Adaptive thermal comfort under mechanically conditioned environments PhD Advisors: Jose-Luis Alexandre (FEUP), Fergus Nicol (London Metropolitan University) This subject relates to the expansion of the scope of the adaptive comfort theory, originally designed for naturally ventilated buildings, to spaces suited with HVAC systems or combinations with natural and mechanical cooling. Based on filed work, where data is collected directly from occupancy in such buildings, the thermal comfort contidions are determined and described so a comfort correlation and set of constrains of can be found.

Catarina Serra Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Use of thermography in assessing hygrothermal performance of building elements PhD Advisors: António Tadeu (FCTUC), Nuno Albino Vieira Simões (FCTUC) In this research, numerical and experimental studies of heat transfer using Infrared Thermography (IRT) applied to buildings envelope thermal behavior are proposed. By developing and implementing analytical solutions and using numerical models to simulate transient heat transfer in layered media and studying heat and moisture diffusion features experimentally using active IRT, it is expected that the basis for the successful use of quantitative IRT in building inspections is set. This aims to further support the use of IRT in building diagnostics as an effective tool in the predictive maintenance of constructions and for promoting better thermal performance of building envelopes an essential aspect in reducing energy consumption in constructions.

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SES PhD Students Christian Wimmler

2011/2012

Nationality: German Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Towards Electrical Isolated Systems based on 100% Renewables PhD Advisors: Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes (FEUP), Carlos Moreira (FEUP), Stephen Connors (MIT)

Clarisse Magarreiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Green Island solar energy potential PhD Advisors: Miguel Brito (FCUL), Pedro Soares (FCUL) Solar radiation in Azores is significantly characterized by its diffuse component. The mean annual values of insolation and the complementary to the wind potential more abundant in the winter makes solar energy essential to any solution concerning energy supply. A full characterization, temporal and spacial, of the solar energy potential in Azores is addressed using in situ measurements and high resolution climate models.

Francisco Goncalves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Increasing Renewable power generation in isolated power systems through smart grid concepts PhD Advisors: Carlos Moreira (FEUP), André Madureira (INESC)

Gabriela Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Consumer preference model for electric vehicles: a dynamic analysis PhD Advisors: Luís Dias (FEUC)

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SES PhD Students Golnar Hejazi Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Approach to the conception of energy solutions for isolated communities in developing countries PhD Advisors: Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes (FEUP), Manuel Matos (FEUP), Stephen Connors (MIT)

Gonçalo Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Promoting a cleaner and more efficient energy use in the residential sector through a better understanding of energy consumption patterns PhD Advisors: Carlos Silva (IST-UL), Susana Vieira (IST-UL) For end-use consumers like households, energy can be an intricate concept and aiding in the promotion of a cleaner and more efficient energy use is a complex task. The way information is passed on to the consumer impacts the adoption of efficiency measures. The analysis of consumption patterns showed a performance gap, i.e., the households active energy consumption was not sufficient to meet the estimated thermal needs, suggesting a scenario of domestic energy poverty. Furthermore, it was achieved a reduction of energy consumption through the feedback of performance indicators to a set of households. A shift to cleaner energy consumption could be achieved with distributed production, using on-site renewable energy production and storage. The research results suggest that current solar and storage technologies would be financially viable under Portuguese legislation.

Joana Bastos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Integrating urban design and sustainable development: Life-cycle energy and greenhouse gas emissions from urban residential patterns PhD Advisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC), Stuart Batterman (University of Michigan) The overall goal of the research is to contribute to the understanding of the linkages between urban design, energy and environmental impacts associated with urban areas. The research incorporates a life-cycle perspective and the methodological approach contributes to the improvement of life-cycle assessment (LCA) applied to urban systems. The research aims at developing an extended LCA model to provide a more comprehensive assessment of environmental issues associated with urban areas, providing guidelines and support for decision-making on the urban development of our cities.

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SES PhD Students Joana Prata Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Dynamic Behavior Of Linear And Point Thermal Bridges Of Buildings - Numerical And Experimental Simulations PhD Advisors: António Tadeu (FCTUC), Nuno Simões (FCTUC) In this research it will be evaluated the importance of performing the analysis of linear and point thermal bridges dynamically during the design phase of buildings, in order to choose high performance solutions, preventing weaknesses in the construction processes and techniques, which might compromise the building’s envelope hygrothermal behaviour and energy performance of buildings. The final goal is to understand how a dynamic analysis of the thermal bridges (TB) may influence the evaluation of the thermal behaviour and energy performance of buildings, when compared with the steady state analysis from the methodologies given by the European standards and to evaluate the impact of TB on the dynamic simulations of buildings. For that purpose, the dynamic behaviour of different types of TB will be analysed using dynamic and experimental simulations as well as in-situ assessment.

João Carrilho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Optimal Control of Indoor Climate PhD Advisors: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC) The focus of this research is on using engineering modeling, control and optimization techniques to develop a control strategy for maintaining the indoor climate within requirements, using a minimum of energy. Engineering methods are used in modeling the dynamics of heat transfer and airflow in buildings, along with system identifcation theory and model predictive control techniques, to develop an innovative control strategy for energy-efficient indoor climate control. This implies quantifying the compromises between conflicting objectives in order to provide assistance in the selection of the most adequate strategy. Having identified the best realizable strategy, the ultimate purpose is to develop a supervisory control algorithm, capable of taking decisions based on predicted environmental conditions, suitable for deployment both in new buildings and in retrofitting scenarios.

Jorge Alves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Improving distribution state estimation robustness through optimal metering placement and sensor fusion techniques PhD Advisors: Jorge Pereira (FEUP)

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SES PhD Students José Gonçalves

2011/2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Methodology for real impact assessment of the best location of distributed electric energy storage systems PhD Advisors: António Gomes Martins (FCTUC), Luís Neves (IPL) This study presents a methodology to assist decision makers on the assessment of feasible solutions to integrate a distributed electric energy storage system (DEESS) in an urban environment, as a tool to provide power and energy services to the electric network. Using real energy market data the developed methodology uses prototype diagrams of electricity demand, electricity prices and renewable electricity generation to optimize the location of DEESS units. An improved genetic algorithm is used for the optimization that allows the most suitable locations of DEESS units to be found. The choice of location uses a definition of the best schedule of operation, while optimizing four objective functions namely the minimization of losses, voltage deviations and investment cost, and the maximization of the net gains of exploiting the differences among time-varying energy prices.

José Mário Pó Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

High Quality Silicon Ribbons for Solar Cells PhD Advisors: Jorge Alves (FCUL) This thesis pursues a technological solution to decrease material consumption and energy footprint during crystalline silicon sheet growth for solar PV cells, the Silicon over Dust Substrate (SDS) process. To crystallize silicon sheets from the SDS process the zone melting crystallization (ZMC) technique is used, where the heterogeneous temperature distributions produce thermal stresses in the sheet. At temperatures above 700˚C, stresses higher than the yield stress are generally stored in the lattice in the form of dislocations. For efficient silicon solar photovoltaic devices, a low dislocation density is required. Here a new Crystallization Furnace is developed to minimize the silicon sheets’ final dislocation density, and thus improve the device performance.

Luis Seca Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Development of Power System Restoration Plans Within the Smart Grid Paradigm PhD Advisors: Carlos Moreira (FEUP), João Peças Lopes (FEUP)

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SES PhD Students Luísa Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Modernised Portuguese Schools: from IAQ and Thermal Comfort towards Energy Efficiency Plans PhD Advisors: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCT-UC) The purpose of my research is to develop energy efficiency plans (EEP) for modernised Portuguese schools (geographical and climatically distributed). These are to be adopted after the analysis of monitored indoor environment quality (IEQ) parameters (CO2 concentration values, relative humidity and temperature). School energy management programs tend to focus on management control and benchmarking comparison to access energy efficiency, rather than reflecting occupants’ satisfaction or performance. The study starts with an energy consumption assessment between the pre and post-intervention phases. It focuses on the relationships between energy performance and occupant feedback and explores whether energy use is related to occupant satisfaction and comfort. It aims to enlarge the actual EEP by reaching an equilibrium between IEQ evaluation and students’ performance.

Mohammadhossein Ghodsirad Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

The analysis of the effects of additives on working parameters of diesel based engines PhD Advisors: Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC)

Nathan Lee Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Decision support methodology for national energy planning in developing countries: An implementation focused approach PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP), Luís Dias (FEUC) Energy is a crucial input to almost all economic activities, in addition to supporting human development efforts. The energy planning (EP) activity is a principal step in the development of an energy strategy. EP objectives which are specific to the local context may aid in ensuring the implementability and sustainability of energy plans and policies. The purpose of this research was to identify EP objectives specific to the local context of developing countries, together with their respective operational attributes, and to structure these within a transparent multi-objective decision making methodology at the national level. A national energy system model was constructed to support the EP methodology. The Economic Community of Western African States, and Ghana specifically, served as a representative area of study. The results may support successful energy strategy formulation.

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SES PhD Students Nelson Soares Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Passive latent heat thermal energy storage systems with phase change materials for the improvement of lightweight buildings’ energy efficiency PhD Advisors: José Costa (FCTUC), Adélio Gaspar (FCTUC), Paulo Santos (FCTUC) Nelson’s research is focused on the study of renewable energy based applications of PCMs in construction solutions towards the improvement of buildings’ energy efficiency. His research interests include sustainability, light steel framing, thermal behavior and energy efficiency of buildings, passive thermal energy storage systems, numerical modeling of heat transfer with phase change and dynamic simulation of energy in buildings. The problems to be studied lie in the mainstream area of the passive thermal heat storage in buildings considering latent heat loads from PCMs phase change processes. It is believed that the proposed work will give new and relevant contributions to the present knowledge in this field.

Nuno Figueiredo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra

Evaluation Of Key Determinants Of Electricity Market Integration In A Context Of High Penetration Of Renewable: The European Internal Electricity Market PhD Advisors: Patrícia Pereira da Silva (FEUC)

Pedro Miguel Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Methodology to simulate the impact of a large deployment of a residential energy management system in the electricity grid PhD Advisors: António Gomes Martins (FCTUC), Luís Neves (IPL) The outcome of this research consists in the development of a methodology and a tool to evaluate the energy and power resources that can be made available by the large deployment of a Residential Energy Management System (REMS) based on the Energy Box. The Energy Box was proposed, by Livengood and Larson in the Service Science Journal in 2009, as a 24/7 background processor operating on a local computer, managing a dwelling electrical energy usage taking into consideration the homeowners preferences and desired comfort level. This research is inserted in the development of a PhD Thesis at the University of Coimbra and also in the collaborative scope of the Energy Box Group comprising researchers of the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra, the Institute of Cognitive Psychology, Vocational and Social Development and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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SES PhD Students Ricardo Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Models and Algorithms for Network Reinforcement Planning in a Smart Grid Environment PhD Advisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP), João Peças Lopes (FEUP)

Sara Magalhães Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Development of a methodology for large-scale assessment of fuel poverty and heating gap PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP)

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

2012/2013 2012/2013

Ana Pimentel

Economic Modeling of Energy Production and Consumption: the contribution of the electricity sector PhD Advisors: Pedro Ramos (FEUC)

Antonio Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Rui Castro (IST-UL), Carlos Silva (IST-UL)

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SES PhD Students Atefeh Salehi

2012/2013

Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Natural Ventilation in Old Buildings: from the built environment original characteristics to the changes arising from interventions in the exterior envelope PhD Advisors: Isabel Torres (FCTUC), Ana Ramos (IPCB)

Carla Caldeira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Blending optimization of biodiesel produced with waste and virgin oils PhD Advisors: Luís Dias (FEUC), Fausto Freire (FCTUC) The main aim is to develop a multiobjective optimization (MO) model to optimize blends of virgin and waste oils (WO, i.e., waste cooking oils and animal fats) for biodiesel production that minimize costs and environmental impacts in a life-cycle perspective, incorporating uncertainty and variability. Analyses based on this model will allow industry stakeholders to obtain blends for biodiesel production in compliance with technical standards that are efficient in terms of cost and environmental impact, and will inform policy makers on the effects of changes to biodiesel regulations.

Carla Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Sustainability Assessment of Building Retrofit: an Integrated Life Cycle Approach PhD Advisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC) The main goal of this PhD research is to identify strategies and select the most appropriate options for improving the life-cycle environmental and economic sustainability of buildings retrofit, for family households and service buildings in South Europe. An integrated cost and environmental life-cycle model combined with thermal dynamic simulation will be developed and implemented to different building retrofit projects in Coimbra. Uncertainty and contribution analyses associated with environmental impacts in an early design stage of a retrofit process will also be performed to allow generalization of the results and reduce the effort of performing a complete LCA while maintaining the fidelity and robustness of the results This research is expected to support decision-making of architects and engineers to optimize the life cycle environmental and economic performance of buildings.

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SES PhD Students Catarina Sabino Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Large scale impacts of energy and power demand management: the Portuguese case PhD Advisors: António Gomes Martins (FCTUC) The main goal of this work is to analyze the effect, caused by the implementation of Demand-side Management (DSM) measures in the Portuguese residential sector, on energy consumption, on economy and on GHG emissions. The Portuguese electric power system, some economic aspects of the country, and general characteristics of the Portuguese population concerning energy saving behaviors will be considered. The results will help understanding and quantifying the effects and benefits of three DSM measures – peak shaving, load shifting and strategic conservation – and will support those decision makers responsible for implementing and designing energy efficiency measures in planning, choosing and designing instruments for DSM and behavior change programs before implementation.

Chongyang Du Nationality: Chinese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Integrating Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment PhD Advisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC), Luis Dias (FEUC) Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is nowadays the only life cycle based sustainability assessment tool with the focus on a product throughout its life cycle. A Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment study is composed of three dimensions of the assessment including Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, Social Life Cycle Assessment, and Life Cycle Costing. This doctoral research project aims at contributing on the methodological development of Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment, testing the feasibility of LCSA through case studies, and providing decision support for policy makers according to LCSA results.

Elias Wetela Nationality: Mozambican Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Development of a Physically-Based Stock-Model by Bottom-Up Method for Medium & Long-Term Electricity Demand Forecast for Developing Countries PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP) Seen that the specific feature of electricity, which is an essential energy type used that cannot be stored simply in large quantities in a cost effective manner. Thus in general, household are switching from traditional energy to electricity. This also happen in developing countries (DCs) where electricity consumption in residential sector are expressive share of total energy demanded in general. Such switch is accompanied by changes in typologies of end-use appliances or devices, requiring relatively accurate prediction for the respective load demand. Contrary to the others models, the main objective of the present work topic is to develop a physically-based stock model by applying bottomup method to predict electricity demand for medium and long-term in developing countries (DCs). It mean, the basic idea is to disaggregate the demand into homogeneous sectors of residences.

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SES PhD Students Felipe Calabria Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

A virtual reservoir model for power systems with large share of hydros: Analysis of the Brazilian case in a liberalized wholesale electricity market PhD Advisors: João Tomé Saraiva (FEUP), Ana Paula Rocha (FEUP)

Henrique Pombeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Towards energy efficiency in service buildings - An adaptive multivariate approach PhD Advisors: Carlos Silva (IST-UL), Leon Glicksman (MIT) Buildings are the sector that consumes the most final energy worldwide. Achieving energy efficiency in buildings will highly contribute to the achievement of a more sustainable world. My PhD research topic focuses on developing energy efficiency strategies in buildings, having the Instituto Superior Técnico building in the TagusPark campus as a study case. I am developing models to describe how energy is being consumed in the building and am also characterizing the users’ behaviors, preferences and interactions to include them in the development of such efficiency strategies. Therefore, a systematic modeling & optimisation approach is being developed, alongside with user engagement strategies towards a more energy efficient building with higher levels of comfort for the users.

Hugo Valente Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Impact of Renewables on Electricity Prices and the Transmission Grid Development. PhD Advisors: João Santana (IST-UL) Did the incentives to promote renewables changed electricity prices and in what way did they contribute to increase the tariff deficit? In what way did this increase of renewables, mainly wind, changed the development of the transmission grid? What were the alternatives? Are there lessons to be learned?

Joana Rafael Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL)

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SES PhD Students Luciana Barbosa Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Energy Markets, Real Options and Game Theory PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Artur Rodrigues (UMinho) The aim of this work is to apply real options theory and game theory to analyze investments in renewable energy projects. Our models provide a methodology to better value investment projects in the presence of uncertainty, flexibility, timing, and the effect of strategies employed by the competing firms. In addition, we analyze the impact of different types of feed-in tariff policies on important economic variables and the social welfare.

Luis Rodrigues Jr. Nationality: Portuguese, Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Advanced Wind Power Management and Optimal Market Involvement PhD Advisors: Ana Estanqueiro (LNEG/FCUL), Ricardo Lima (LNEG) The original contribution of this work is to provide wind energy producers with an optimization decision-support tool that take into account the state of the art of renewable generation control technology. Optimal bidding strategies will be investigated considering the actual working mechanisms of electricity markets, the influence of wind power clusters on market clearing price and envisioning trends in market design. Moreover, the wind turbines rich variety of technical capabilities regarding power production curtailment will be modeled and made available for the decision-support tool.

Miguel Oliva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Optimization of building envelope in healthcare buildings towards better indoor environmental quality and energy performance PhD Advisors: José Raimundo Mendes da Silva (FCTUC), António José Barreto Tadeu (FCTUC) Healthcare buildings are amongst the biggest energy consumers due to their operating requirements and intense utilization, whilst simultaneously keeping the indoor air quality steady. This environment poses a big challenge to the building envelope, which can not be only a separator between inside and outside but it must have a dynamic behavior towards the external conditions, adopting a resource-efficient strategy according to the interior needs. Is it possible to develop a product that includes new generation materials and passive strategies to improve energy performance, whilst being economically attractive? This work aims at creating a tool to help professionals in the area of construction making a correct choice and to point out to owners and administrators the best practices to an effective reduction in energy consumption, towards better indoor environmental quality.

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SES PhD Students Nuno Martins

2012/2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of a Climate Performance Indicator for Analysis of Low Energy Buildings PhD Advisors: Guilherme Carrilho da Graça (FCUL) Development of a climate performance indicator, that focuses on a given building’s energy performance and its relation with local climate.

Parisa Ahani Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A novel approach for optimal integration of electric vehicles with internal combustion engines vehicles in urban freight transport PhD Advisors: Tiago Farias (IST-UL), Sandra Melo (IST-UL) We propose a mixed-integer programming formulation for determining an economically and environmentally optimal combination of electric vehicles with ICE vehicles in urban freight transport applications over some planning horizon. The developed model takes into account the risk associated to some uncertainties such as fossil fuel price uncertainty, electric vehicles purchasing cost uncertainty, and battery technology uncertainty, which is a novel approach in this regard. We also examine various risk measurements for analyzing the risks associated to such uncertainties. A thorough analysis of the involved risks would lead to more economically and environmentally viable decisions by the concerned private and public policymakers.

Ricardo Almeida Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Climate Responsive Building Skin, Development and Physical Behaviour of Green Roofs and Facades PhD Advisors: António Tadeu (FCTUC), Nuno Simões (FCTUC) This project aims the Green Roofs and Facades settings study adjusted to the Mediterranean climate towards the selection and evaluation of possibilities for optimization.

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SES PhD Students Ricardo Vicente Nationality: Portuguese / Cape Verdean Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Atmospheric water vapour processing (AWVP) technologies and their contribution to the mitigation of the hydrological risk. PhD Advisors: Carlos Silva (IST-UL), Maria João Rodrigues (IST-UL) This research is an experimental approach on the development of a method to compare different atmospheric water vapor processors (AWVP). These processors extract water vapor from the atmosphere, making water available in liquid state. The overall goal is to create an adaptive atmospheric water vapor processor to diverse environments, remotely controllable and that can provide a service of water with very low energy cost.

Ana Filipa Silva

2013/2014 2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Façade Integrated Natural Ventilation System PhD Advisors: Guilherme Carrilho da Graça (FCUL), António Vallêra (FCUL) The NZEB target for 2020 has raised the interest in Natural Ventilation due to its potential to reduce ventilation and cooling related energy demand. However, in most modern cities, air and noise pollution prevent the use of natural ventilation. NV flows are driven by small pressure differences making the use of traditional mechanical filtration based on forced flow through a fibrous media impossible. NV systems using traditional windows cannot deliver the high indoor environmental quality that is expected in contemporary office environments. Our work aims to develop a device that allows the use of natural ventilation in locations where hitherto the outdoor noise and air quality prevented it. It is proposed the creation of an electrostatic air filter to be adapted, tested and optimized to be low energy consuming and highly efficient in filtering particles.

Ana Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Urban Heat Island Effect in Mediterranean Cities PhD Advisors: Samuel Niza (IST-UL) Urban Heat Island is among the most important environment problems within cities. Considering the growing importance of urban areas, supported by the urbanization prospects for the 21st century, and the specific case of Mediterranean bio-regions as one of the most sensitive to the climate change predictions, here, we consider five cities within Mediterranean climatic zones to assess the presence of surface urban heat island effect during the day, using ETM+/Landsat 7 data. The differences and similarities throughout the five cities are analyzed, and then compared to potential biophysical driving factors, such as green infrastructure, weather averages and land cover albedo.

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SES PhD Students André Parreiral

2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra

Economic impacts of disasters: A regional input-output analysis PhD Advisors: Pedro Ramos (FEUC), Eduardo Barata (FEUC) The central objective of this project is the study of economic effects on stocks and flows of products derived from possible disasters using regional input-output models. This project will reference the empirical Multi-sectoral Multi-regional Coimbra Model - MULTI2C. This model is being developed by a group of researchers from University of Coimbra and allows the construction of input-output tables for different regional configurations. Through the MULTI2C approach we aim to develop a set of simulations, including restrictions on the supply side. Specifically, we propose simulations trough input-output models, understanding the economic impact derived from catastrophic situations directly related to energy and sustainability areas.

Behrang Chenari Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Optimization of indoor climate and energy consumption in buildings integrating window-based hybrid ventilation system PhD Advisors: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC) This research aims to develop a novel product so called SMART WINDOW which integrates hybrid ventilation to provide acceptable indoor air quality while lowering the energy use. Natural ventilation will be used as long as possible and mechanical ventilation is just used as an alternative (automatic adjust between passive and active mode ventilation).

Claudia Sousa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Disaggregating/Expanding urban metabolism PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), André Pina (IST-UL) Cities are multifunctional systems involving a high level of flows and resources consumption for maintaining urban life. In identifying potential research topics under this heading, special attention will be given to the construction of a model to expand/disaggregate urban metabolism at city level regarding different urban functions. By adding uses, people and places to the framework, the goal is to answer Who is using? What flows? Where? To do what? This research intends to look for the built environment and draw a model able to attribute flows to urban functions and to infrastructures and technologies that support them. This will allow us to understand the variables and relations involved, achieving a more detailed approximation of the city’s metabolism, so in the future not only the economic but also the social aspects of sustainability can be integrated with the environmental aspect.

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SES PhD Students Danyela Samaniego

2013/2014

Nationality: Mexican Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Proposal of guideline elements dedicated to central towers in solar energy facilities. PhD Advisors: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC), Almerindo Ferreira (FCTUC) Nowadays solar power plants have been increased in number and the sun as a renewable source, used by the concentrated power systems (CPS) to achieve this goal by concentrating the radiation, allows the flux of solar irradiance in the field. The presence of a considerably amount of concentrated solar radiation (visible light, infrared and ultraviolet radiation) is usual in this type of installations. Some previous studies have been provided possible risks for health in working environments where the workers perform activities in outdoors under solar radiation. The overall purpose is to provide information about the environmental conditions in facilities with CPS technology uses, solar radiation effects, methods for the risk assessment and several standards that could have applicable elements according with the occupational health needs in the central receiver solar power plants.

Dennis Metz Nationality: German Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Economic evaluation of energy storage systems and their impact on electricity markets in a smart-grid context PhD Advisors: João Tomé Saraiva (FEUP) The objective of the research is to evaluate the commercial benefits of distributed energy storage systems and determine the market risks associated with an investment in such a system. To assess the economics of energy storage and establish a clear value proposition, different storage implementations and operations will be simulated. This will provide an understanding of the benefits that a storage device can provide, including barriers and drivers to its deployment. Furthermore, reciprocal effects on market prices will be determined and analyzed to understand the impact of a wide-scale implementation of storage.

Francisco Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

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SES PhD Students Francisco de Almeida

2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

The Luminous Environment in Southern European Cities and its Implications for Daylighting and Glare in Buildings PhD Advisors: Vitor Leal (FEUP), Eduardo de Oliveira Fernandes (FEUP) The study aims to contribute to understanding of the characteristics of daylight in the Mediterranean urban environment, namely: • the importance of the lower band within the normal field of view of the inhabitants. • the typical sky luminance distributions that occur as a result of apparent daily solar movement, weather phenomena and local atmospheric contaminants. • the non-trivial photometric properties of outdoor surface materials, and their impact in some spatial typologies/urban tissues.

Gisela Mendes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Sustainable energy systems in cities PhD Advisors: Carlos Silva (IST-UL), André Pina (IST-UL) My research intends to develop political and technical solutions and also to explore new business opportunities related to energy consumption in cities. The ultimate goal is the optimization of resource consumption, contributing to cities’ overall energy efficiency and GHG emissions reduction. Firstly, an econometric model for the Portuguese residential energy consumption related to both electricity and natural gas is going to be developed, using as inputs data from census that are available at neighbourhood scale. Therefore, the model allows us to compute the energy demand for smaller areas within cities, whose values are unknown but are a requisite for effective energy planning.

Graça Ribeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Domestic Consumers As Electric Service Providers PhD Advisors: Humberto Jorge (FCTUC) Aggregators play an important rule as mediators between demand and supply sides, once they can offer significant blocs of management potential through the joint of a large number of small size end users. The aim of the present work is to characterize a set of representative domestic load curves, disaggregated by appliance and by region. Based on those diagrams, the following simulations are made: (1) Load management by scheduling and interrupting sets of eligible charges; (2) Scenarios for the penetration of electric vehicles in the national fleet park and the respective impacts in domestic consumption; (3) Scenarios for the penetration of micro generation and storage. The referred curves and simulations intend to provide a working basis for future cost/benefit analysis about the expectable impacts on the electric grids and in terms of Aggregator’s business.

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SES PhD Students Khadija Benis

2013/2014

Nationality: Moroccan Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Assessment Framework For Alternative Business Models Of Building-Integrated Agriculture (BIA) In European Cities – The Case Of Lisbon PhD Advisors: Paulo Manuel Cadete Ferrão (IST-UL), John E. Fernández (MIT) Since both food systems and buildings have significant environmental impacts, their integration could lead to a reduced aggregate impact. In that sense, Building Integrated Agriculture (BIA) consists of the application of high-performance hydroponic greenhouse methods adapted for use on top of or in buildings, using renewable energy sources and efficient water and waste management cycles. This approach of producing food closer to where it is consumed has aroused an increasing interest over the last years since it can considerably decrease fossil fuel consumption, improve food security, provide jobs locally, cut transportation costs and enhance energy efficiency in buildings. As it is still an embryonic area, very few studies have quantitatively assessed the barriers, potentialities and impacts of implementing BIA in urban areas.

Mafalda Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

A multi-scale decision-support model to integrate energy urban planning PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP), Vítor Oliveira (FEUP) Cities become increasingly important to address a wide diversity of environmental issues, notably, energy demand and climate change. Urban renewal is a slow process. As such, the importance of improving the understanding of the impact of urban planning choices in advance is increasingly acknowledged. The research aims at contributing with a tool that enables to evaluate in an integrated way the impact of different patterns of urban development on energy consumption, deriving specifically from the physical structure of the city. This pulls further the state‑of‑the‑art by analyzing simultaneously the buildings and transports sectors, and by modelling several parameters of urban form in order to understand their impact on urban energy demand. The development of the proposed model is expected to enable more informed urban decisions and to formulate sustainable policies for urban development.

Maria Fino Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

The application of ICB as external thermal insulating composite system An experimental and numerical study PhD Advisors: António Tadeu (FCTUC), Nuno Simões (FCTUC) Expanded cork agglomerate (ICB) has been used on an ad hoc basis as an alternative to external thermal insulating composite systems, but without a detailed technical characterization. This project aims to contribute to the characterization and development of this system by incorporating ICB boards, both when they are used in new building construction and for retrofitting projects. Special attention will be given to hygrothermal properties, water tightness, mechanical properties and fitness for use. Experimental and numerical analysis of the hygrothermal behavior of different constructive solutions will be performed. The system’s behavior in terms of heat, vapor and moisture transfer will be modeled using numerical simulation techniques. Numerical models based on analytical solutions, boundary element method and finite element method will be developed for this purpose.

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SES PhD Students Maximilian Votteler

2013/2014

Nationality: German Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Natalie Samovich Nationality: Latvian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Nikola Sahovic Nationality: Serbian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Renewable Energy Cooperatives Business Models for Sustainable Provision of Renewable Energy PhD Advisors: Patricia Pereira da Silva (FEUC/INESC) The research project strives to analyze endogenous and exogenous factors that are key for the viability of the cooperative business model in the renewable energy sector in a number of countries and territories in Europe. Key questions include what arrangements of institutional, biophysical and social factors are essential for the development of energy cooperatives and how do successful energy cooperatives adapt to external variables through applying appropriate governance models in order to achieve desired outcomes, namely economic and socio-environmental profits for their members and regions. In broad terms, the objectives are to gain insight on local institutional drivers and barriers, and to derive sets of “design principles” (best practices) for energy cooperative projects in the territories under observation.

Ricardo Gomes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of a building energy consumption template PhD Advisors: Carlos Silva (IST-UL) From this first year of the PhD, I realized that Smart Grids, Intelligent Buildings and Energy Building Management through demand aggregation are important concepts that can contribute significantly to building energy savings. However, is still difficult to conciliate these areas in such a way that stakeholders can access to relevant information. With this, in my PhD I would like to develop and study an aggregator energy supplier tool that could be one major step to provide relevant data to reduce total energy demand. To create this tool I will consider building energy certificate data, economic and services data and building energy simulation results.

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SES PhD Students Sara Freitas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Photovoltaic potential in the urban landscape PhD Advisors: Miguel Centeno Brito (FCUL) Sustainable solutions for electricity production in the urban environment such as photovoltaics (PV) are gaining crescent interest, since a great amount of electricity is consumed in cities. However, cityscapes provide a complex environment where solar radiation is unevenly distributed due to the dynamic overshadowing effects present on building surfaces. Quantifying these phenomena is essential for predicting solar radiation availability and sophisticated models for solar potential evaluation that couple radiation algorithms with accurate representation of the terrain, vegetation canopy and building structures can provide insight into several features of the commissioning of urban PV plants. The main goal of my research is to compare the PV potential computed by some of these models with data from real systems, aiming at the improvement of their diffuse radiation and shadow algorithms.

Seyedeh Saadatian Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Integrated life-cycle analysis of fenestration: a multi-criteria approach PhD Advisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC), Nuno Simões (FCTUC) Workplan: Literature review; Formulation of the whole optimization problem: - Design variables: glazing type, orientation, window frame, shading, window-to-wall ratio/ Objective functions: low environmental impacts, low energy consumption and cost effective design/ Constraint function: the climatic constraints for the studied regions with different Heating Degree Days (HDD) values; Energy performance assessment of each design variables applied to the reference room (EnergyPlus); Environmental life-cycle assessment of each design variables applied to the reference room (LCA); Life-cycle cost assessment of each design variables (LCC); Multi-objective optimization of each design variable; Integrated multi-objective optimization of the whole problem including all design variables.

Vivek Kumar Singh Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Assessing energy-efficiency market transformation: The case study of a developing Asian country PhD Advisors: Carla Henriques (Coimbra business school), António Gomes Martins (FCTUC ) The enhancement of energy planning requires the formulation of a proper economy-energy-environmental (E3) model that supports energy decision-makers with the definition of more efficient policies regarding the allocation of energy resources in meeting the future energy needs in Asian countries. In this context, from the different approaches available in scientific literature to model E3 systems, multi objective linear programming (MOLP) Input –Output (I-O) models seem particularly interesting, since they allow exploring the trade-offs between multiple and conflicting objectives, considering at the same time the production system imposed by the I-O analysis framework, enabling to take into account different impacts consistent with different energy policy options.

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SES PhD Students Ana Amaral

2014/2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Methodological tool for studying urban morphologies concerning the design of nearly zero-energy districts PhD Advisors: Adélio Gaspar (FCTUC), Álvaro Gomes (FCTUC), Eugénio Rodrigues (FCTUC) Nearly Zero-Energy Building (NZEB) concept is seen as a promising approach to minimize buildings’ energy consumption, however a slightest attention has been given to urban scenarios, where most of the world’s population tends to concentrate. The purpose of this research is the study of urban forms, having NZEB concept as reference and extrapolated to the district scale, an approach that aims to gather the study of buildings and urban characteristics that may influence their energy performance, as so the share of resources, such as district energy systems and renewables. Based on these requisites, algorithm-based techniques of generation and optimization specifically for urban design will be developed. Coupled to energy performance assessment, they will help to compare and select the less energy intensive solutions in early phases of architectural design processes.

Carlos Pereira Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Estimating the Hosting Capacity and Sustainability Contribution of Modern Distribution Networks PhD Advisors: João A. Peças Lopes (FEUP), Manuel Matos (FEUP) This doctoral thesis aims to propose and develop a methodology to identify the maximum hosting capacity of distributed energy generation, mainly from renewable energy sources (RES), for a distribution grid (medium and low voltage) considering simultaneously several impact indicators under a multicriteria framework. This will involve the development and exploitation of a multi-periods optimization power flow approach to simulate the static operating conditions of the grids with several levels of RES integration when configuring with grid situations. A power quality assessment will be included to regarding harmonic distortion to be one of the impact indicators, since most of the RES generation units will use electronic interfaces for grid connection.

Catarina Matos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Compressed Air Energy Storage Potential in Portugal and its Economic Analysis PhD Advisors: Patrícia Silva (FCTUC), Júlio Carneiro (FCTUC)

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SES PhD Students Daniel Albuquerque Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Filipe Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Guillermo Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

The role of Electricity Distribution System Operators in the promotion of energy efficiency – Analyzing regulatory, stakeholders and firm level dimensions PhD Advisors: Patrícia Pereira da Silva (FEUC) The ongoing electricity sector transformation driven by social, environmental and economic pressures, as well as by technological innovation associated with the evolution towards the smart grid and new consumer dynamics associated with a more active participation of end-users, is reshaping the role of the main players in this context – electricity distribution system operators (DSOs). This transition has been mostly associated with the appearance of Distributed Energy Resources which include energy efficiency, distributed generation, distributed storage and demand response, and also with the unbundling of electric utilities. This research aims investigate the challenge associated with the role of DSOs in the promotion of energy efficiency related activities considering regulatory, multi-stakeholder and firm-level dimensions.

Hugo Algarvio Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Fernando Lopes (LNEG), João Santana (IST)

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SES PhD Students Isabel Azevedo

2014/2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

A Methodology for Ex-post Evaluation of Local Climate Change Mitigation Actions in a Multi-Level Governance Framework PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP)

Joana Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

João Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Design, modeling, construction and experimental characterization of a gas-fired heat-exchanger for a micro-CHP system based on an organic Rankine cycle PhD Advisors: José Baranda Ribeiro (FCTUC), Jorge André (Sciven Lda.) This technical-scientific research is based on the design, construction and experimental characterization of a new concept of evaporator to fill-in the technological gap found at commercial levels in micro-cogeneration systems using the Organic Rankine cycle as the working principle. The innovation of this new concept of evaporator lies in the capacity of performing the vaporization and overheating of the working fluid without using an intermediate thermal fluid (in liquid state, usually heated-up in a standard boiler). This development will reduce the thermal inertia, response time, costs and dimensions, as well as increase the thermal efficiency of the global system.

Joaquim Viegas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

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SES PhD Students José Iria Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Enabling Active Demand Response in Smart Grids PhD Advisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP), Filipe Soares (INESCTEC) The residential and commercial sectors together represent more than 50% of the electricity consumption in the EU. The current electricity system does not consider the active participation of these parties in the electricity markets. The participation of theses consumers is acknowledged as the inevitable solution to enhance the economic effectiveness of electricity markets, increase the integration of renewable energy sources and improve the reliability of electric power systems. The work to be developed in this thesis will focus on defining management procedures to enable the participation of residential and small commercial consumers in the electricity markets via technical and behavioral DR. Moreover, innovative algorithms and decision-aid tools for HEMS and electricity aggregators will be developed.

Juan Chong Portillo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Juliana Gomes Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Maria Gomes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Energy Management in Climate Sensitive new Portuguese nZEBs PhD Advisors: Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC)

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SES PhD Students Mohammadali Mirsalehian Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Noha Elbalky Nationality: Egyptian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Rita Almeida Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de CiĂŞncias da Universidade de Lisboa

Large power hybrid PV pumping for irrigation PhD Advisors: Miguel Brito (FCUL), Luis Narvarte (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid) Agricultural irrigation is a highly consuming activity of electricity and water. Accordingly, the world of irrigation requires innovative solutions, less water and energy dependent, to face up this problem. This work aims to show the technical and economical viability of efficient and variable-free large scale PV pumping systems for irrigation allowing up to 100% renewable energy; to reduce the water consumption, using automatisms, ICT and Precision-Agriculture-based solutions; and to market uptake and market replication of a new green product consisting of PV pumping systems consuming up to 100% renewable electricity and 30% less water. To show the long-term viability of the innovation, real scale irrigation systems will be studied: a hybrid PV-diesel motor pumps for constant pressure irrigation (in Portugal) and a hybrid PV-grid connected motor pumps (in Morocco).

Roham Torabi Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra

PhD Advisors: Ă lvaro Gomes Martins (FCTUC), Morgado Dias (University of Madeira)

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SES PhD Students Rui Pinto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Advanced Modelling and Optimization Solutions for Integrating Small-Scale and Community Storage in Distribution Grids PhD Advisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP), Ricardo Bessa (INESCTEC)

Seyedmasoud Taheri Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra

Thiago Vasques Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Load Management and Demand Response in Small and Medium Data Centers PhD Advisors: Pedro Soares Moura (FCTUC) The main objective of this project is to understand how an intensive energy consumer as small and medium data centers can become more efficient from the energy point of view and how they can take advantage of demand response programs to decrease costs and to cooperate with the grid to ensure higher reliability and sustainable development goals. This project intends to pursue these objectives by designing new strategies of load management and demand response, as well as by modeling, simulating of resources and restrictions on loads and assessing the impact of such strategies to the user (data center operators and owners) and to the grid with a direct influence on the electric sector actors.

Walid Barakat Nationality: German Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Sustaining the Mediterranean Basin; A Roadmap to Renewables Era PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), João Sousa (IST-UL) My PhD Work is to evaluate an inter-disciplinary approach of Structural and Operational Optimization –Applications in Energy Systems of a Multi-Scale Model for the Analysis of a Regional Operating at 100% Renewable Energy - A case Study of a Super Smart Grid for 100% Renewable Energy Power Supply: Flexible and Virtual-Power Plant Generation and Storage Technologies and its Optimal Mix Cost and its Operational Aspects and Details of Future Power Plants. A fully - integrated Renewable Energy system developing a strategic framework for a fully integrated power system of EU-MENA by 2050. Assessing the potential contribution to Europe’s energy future approach& activities towards a new framework for EURO-MEDITERRANEAN, energy system modeling and optimization for Trans-Mediterranean renewable energy cooperation, – scenarios for optimizing energy systems.

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SES PhD Students Abisoye Babajide-Ferguson

2015/2016

Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Alda Henriques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

PhD Advisors: Ana Camanho (FEUP), Pedro Amorim (FEUP)

Ângelo Casaleiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: João Serra (FCUL)

Antonio Neves da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Metabolism of small urban systems PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL) The study of urban metabolism can help understanding the resource consumption of the built environment and influence not just the design of cities but also their consumption patterns, making them more sustainable. The object of this study is to provide a deep analysis of the urban areas through continuous resource flow data, focusing on the metabolism of smaller urban systems such as hospitals, neighborhoods, commercial buildings and airports that represent resource intensive activities. Today, smart connected products progressively enable further analysis of both spatial and temporal variation of resource consumption in urban systems. This way, a better understanding of different patterns of consumption is possible as well as, the interaction between urban subsystems.

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SES PhD Students Diogo Henriques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Fabian Heymann Nationality: German Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Synergies between Electric Vehicles and Dispersed Renewable Generation in a GIS Environment under Information Theory Criteria PhD Advisors: Vladimiro Miranda (FEUP) The aim of this work is to evaluate synergies between dispersed renewable generation and electric vehicles by extending geospatial analysis with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to information theory elements, such as data compression and information retrieval. The resulting output (GIS-based platform) will be an instrument which enables electrical grid operators (DSOs) and regional planning authorities to estimate future risks and chances of ongoing DRG and EV penetration to local grid stability and foresee necessary mitigation measures.

Felix Diawuo Nationality: Ghanaian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL)

Gil Sampaio Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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SES PhD Students Goreti Guedes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Sustainable Energy Action Plan (SEAP) and actions scheduling PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP) In a world in change and with significant constraints, the appliance of a methodology that grants the rational justification for the best sustainable actions scheduling should contribute to an objective process of scheduling with the efficiency required.

Ian Scott Nationality: New Zealand Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL)

Joana Pedro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

João Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

João Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

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SES PhD Students Joaquim Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Jorge Filipe Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Juliana Mitkiewicz Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Autonomous Hybrid Energy System for rural communities PhD Advisors: Armando Oliveira (FEUP), Ana Isabel Palmero (INEGI-UP) The PhD proposal is to develop a Autonomous Hybrid Energy System (AHES), which is expected to be implemented in developing countries, in small vulnerable villages. The work focuses on the development of an off grid energy system design by using available technologies to build an energy hybrid supply and storage system with 100% of renewable sources of energy, that have an economic advantage in relation of the current energy systems available. The overall objective is to guarantee the energy security through an affordable, reliable and sustainable remote energy system in vulnerable communities without access of energy or with insufficient energy access. The AHES will be an environmentally friendly and economic solution to provide the basic services and economic growth in poorer and remote communities.

Kai Whiting Nationality: British Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior TĂŠcnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e GestĂŁo da Universidade de Lisboa

Kamalanathan Ganesan Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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SES PhD Students Kashif Mushtaq Nationality: Pakistani Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Hybrid organic-inorganic composite perovskite solar cells PhD Advisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP) A remarkable breakthrough has recently occurred in solar cell technology which involves perovskite solar cells. Solar cells based on perovskites have recently been reported with certified power conversion efficiencies as high as 20.1%. Unlike silicon solar cells, the perovskite solar cells are prepared using cheap and abundant materials (Pb-based) and can be processed at low temperatures. They are also compatible with roll-to-roll printing. However, there are two primary challenges that need to be overcome to enable their widespread use. These challenges are (a) lack of stability with time and (b) presence of large concentrations of Pb. In this project we will use new (and scalable) methods to construct perovskite solar cells. The approaches to use will have built in strategies for improving stability and capturing Pb in the event of water contact.

Luis Carmona Nationality: Colombian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Lurian Klein Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Mário Coelho Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Generation Expansion Plan using Dynamic Systems - Application on Brazilian Power System PhD Advisors: João Tomé Saraiva (FEUP), Adelino Jorge Coelho Pereira (ISEC Coimbra) Brazilian Power System is facing great changes in the recent years. The rapid growth of energy sources with intermittent nature, such as wind and solar, is changing the system operation and the power exchanges between regions of the country. Although the country still has a large unused hydroelectric potential, environmental pressures influenced the deployment of hydroelectric projects with reduced reservoirs sizes leading to a decrease of the percentage of stored energy in hydro reservoirs. The recent regulation of distributed generation is also increasing uncertainties that will affect the short and the long term power system operation and expansion planning. Therefore the thesis aims at developing a long term generation expansion planning model using Dynamic Systems in order to evaluate the influence of these new complexities in the Power Systems long term behavior.

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SES PhD Students Pedro Frade Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: João Santana (IST-UL), Filipa Amorim (IST-UL), Carlos Silva (IST-UL)

Raquel Figueiredo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Shashanka Rao Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

Zuleika Hoyos Nationality: Mexican Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Demand side management for large scale integration of photovoltaic and solar thermal power plants. PhD Advisors: Pedro Soares Moura (FCTUC) There is the necessity to incorporate a higher penetration of variable solar electricity generation in a transmission grid with an adequate respond to the demand.For the problems caused by the mismatch between the PV generation and consumption, if properly controlled,several residential appliances can be used as Demand Response resource therefore contributing tominimize the mismatch between the generation and consumption. The energy systems need it for the implementation of DR actions and for the management of energy storage has to be definedand the optimization rules have to be followed.The objective of this work it is to analyze the photovoltaic and solar thermal generation power inorder to minimize the grid integration issues through demand side management using demand response as a tool for increase the solar thermal development and compensate the photovoltaic weakness.

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SES PhD Alumni Kiti Suomalainen

2011

Nationality: finnish Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Research Fellow at the Energy Centre, University of Auckland Business School, New Zeland

Wind Dynamics- Daily Patterns in Energy Systems Planning PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Carlos Silva (IST-UL), Stephen Connors (MIT)

Patrícia Baptista Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at IDMEC, IST, Portugal

Evaluation of the impacts the introduction of alternative fuelled vehicles in the road transportation sector PhD Advisors: Tiago Farias (IST-UL), Carla Silva (IST-UL), John Heywood (MIT)

André Pina

2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Supply and demand dynamics in energy systems modeling PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Carlos Silva (IST-UL)

Cristina Camus Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Adjunct Professor at ISEL/Politechnic Institute of Lisbon, Portugal

Economic. Energy and Environment impacts in the electric systems of mass introduction pf Plug-in vehicles PhD Advisors: Tiago Farias (IST-UL) Jorge Esteves (ERSE)

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SES PhD Alumni Daniel Wiesmann

2012

Nationality: Swiss Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Freelance GIS Programmer, Portugal

Quantifying the Drivers of Residential Urban Metabolism PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), John Fernandez (MIT), Ines Lima de Azevedo (CMU)

Filipe Soares Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, Portugal

Impact of the Deployment of Electric Vehicles in Grid Operation and Expansion PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP)

Gustavo Haydt Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Research Analyst at EPE, Brasil

A multi-objective decision support methodology for developing national energy efficiency plans PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP), Luis Dias (FEUC)

Joana Abreu Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Member of Technical Staff - Behavior Scientist at Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems, Boston, United States

Routines and feedback in households PhD Advisors: Jorge Vasconcelos (NEWES), Francisco da Câmara Pereira (FCTUC), David Marks (MIT)

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SES PhD Alumni Julija-Vasiljevska Nationality: Macedonian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: PostDoc Scientific Researcher at European Commission, Joint Research Centre, The Netherlands

Evaluation of Technical, Economic and Environmental Impacts Resulting From Large Scale Integration of Microgrids PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Manuel Matos (FEUP)

Leonardo Rosado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Assistant professor at Chalmers University, Sweeden

A Standard Model for Urban Metabolism - Accounting Material Flows in Metropolitan Areas PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL) , Samuel Niza (IST-UL)

Manuel Rocha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Managing Director at Efacec South Africa, Mozambique

Transmission Expansion Planning, a multiyear approach considering uncertainties PhD Advisors: João Tomé Saraiva (FEUP), Stephen Connors (MIT)

Maria Kapsalaki Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Consultant at INIVE

Economic-Efficient design of residential Net Zero Energy Buildings with respect to local context PhD Advisors: Vitor Leal (FEUP), Mat Santamouris (NKUA)

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SES PhD Alumni Nuno Clímaco

2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Energy Efficiency Consultant at ADENE - National Energy Agency

Energy-Efficient Retrofit of Residential Buildings - Lisbon 1960’s-70’s case-study PhD Advisors: Luísa Caldas (FA-UL), Manuel Correia Guedes (IST-UL)

Pedro Almeida Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Power System Engineer at Tractebel Engineering, Brussels

Impact of Vehicle to Grid in the Power System Dynamic Behaviour PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), James Kirtley (MIT)

Pedro Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Junior Associate at McKinsey & Company

Influence of control patterns for lighting and shading systems on the predicted energy performance of buildings PhD Advisors: Vitor Manuel Silva Leal (FEUP), Marilyne Anderson (MIT)

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoc at iDiv, Germany

2013

Alexandra Marques

Income-based carbon responsibility PhD Advisors: Tiago Domingos (IST-UL), João Rodrigues (IST-UL)

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SES PhD Alumni Alexandre Lucas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Energy Systems Engineer at European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Italy

Evaluation of Energy Supply Infrastructure in the context of Life-cycle analysis of alternative light-duty vehicle PhD Advisors: Carla Alexandra Silva (IST-UL), Rui Pedro Neto (IST-UL), Randolph Kirchain (MIT)

Ana Neves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Climate Alliance, Belgium

Decision Support Methodology for Local Sustainable Energy Planning PhD Advisors: Vítor Leal (FEUP), João Lourenço (IST-UL)

André Augusto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoc Research Associate at Arizona State University, USA

Study of process to grow silicon ribbons by fast CVD PhD Advisors: Joao Serra (FCUL)

Diego Issicaba Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Area Leader at INESC P&D Brasil

Block-Oriented Agent-based Architecture to Support the Power Distribution System Operation PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Mauro Augusto da Rosa (INESC TEC)

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SES PhD Alumni Ehsan Asadi

2013

Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Iranian Current position: Post-doc fellow at UC, Portugal

A Retrofit Decision Support Approach for Improving Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environmental Quality in Buildings PhD Advisors: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC), Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC), Luis Dias (FEUC), Leon Glicksman (MIT)

FIlipa Reis Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Patent Examiner at INPI

Development of photovoltaic systems with concentration PhD Advisors: Miguel Centeno Brito (FCUL), Gianfranco Sorasio (WS Energia)

Gonçalo Cardoso Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post Doctoral Fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Distributed Energy Resources for a Sustainable Built Environment PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Ana Póvoa (IST-UL)

Hana Gerbelová Nationality: Czech Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Feasibility Assessment of Carbon Capture and Storage Technology in the Portuguese Energy System PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST), Edward Rubin (CMU), Christos Ioakimidis (Deusto Institute of Technology)

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SES PhD Alumni Leonel Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, Portugal

Advances on the Sequential Monte Carlo Reliability Assessment of Generation-Transmission Systems using Cross-Entropy and Population-based Methods PhD Advisors: Vladimiro Miranda (FEUP), Mauro Rosa (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - Brasil)

Marta Mota Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Assistant Professor at ISMAI University Institute of Maia, Portugal

On corporate sustainability reporting - Case of electric utilities PhD Advisors: Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes (FEUP), Maria Isabel Rebelo Teixeira Soares (FEP)

Miguel Covas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Head of New Generation Data Center at Portugal Telecom, Portugal

Multi-criteria decision analysis for the development of sustainable data centers PhD Advisors: Carlos Santos Silva (IST-UL), Luís Dias (FCTUC)

Miguel Moreira da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Head of Asset Management at REN & Visiting Professor at IST

Energy Planning with Electricity Storage and Sustainable Mobility: The Case of Isolated Systems PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Manuel Matos (FEUP)

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SES PhD Alumni Pedro Gonçalves

2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Energy Systems Analysis for High Performance Buildings PhD Advisors: Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC), Adélio Gaspar (FCTUC)

Reza Fazeli Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Iceland, Iceland.

A combined multi-criteria and system dynamics methodology for mid-term planning of light duty vehicle fleets PhD Advisors: Vitor Leal (FEUP), Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP)

Ricardo Bessa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Senior Researcher and Area Manager at INESC TEC, Portugal

Methodologies for the Participation of an Electric Vehicles’ Aggregator in the Electricity Markets PhD Advisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP)

Rui Gomes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at IDMEC (LAETA), Portugal

Wave energy extraction from oscillating systems: numerical modelling and experimental testing PhD Advisors: Luís Gato (IST-UL), António Falcão (IST-UL)

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SES PhD Alumni Vasco Granadeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (IDMEC-FEUP)

Early design and optimization of the building envelope: Integrating architectural generative design systems and energy performance calculation PhD Advisors: José P. Duarte (FA-UL), João R. Correia (IST-UL), Vítor Leal (FEUP)

Amir Safaei

2014

Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Project Manager at Internationlisation/ecoinvent Centre, Switzerland

Life-cycle Optimization Model for Distributed Generation in Buildings PhD Advisors: Carlos Henggeler Antunes (FCTUC), Fausto Freire (FCTUC), Stephen Connors (MIT)

Ana Gonçalves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Certification Analyst at Carbon Trust, UK

Modeling Urban Growth and Electricity Consumption: the power of power laws PhD Advisors: Tiago Domingos (IST-UL)

Bernardo Silva Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Senior Researcher at INESC Technology and Science - Associate Laboratory coordinated by INESC Porto, Portugal

Multi-terminal HVDC grids: control strategies for ancillary services provision in interconnected transmission systems with offshore wind farms PhD Advisors: Hélder Leite (FEUP),Carlos Moreira (FEUP)

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SES PhD Alumni David Rua

2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Researcher at Power Systems Unit, INESC Porto

Last-Mile Communications Systems for Smart Electric Distribution Grids PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), José António Ruela (FEUP), Stephen Connors (MIT)

Érica Castanheira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Coimbra, Portugal

Environmental sustainability assessment of soybean and palm biodiesel systems: A life-cycle approach PhD Advisors: Fausto Freire (FCTUC)

Eugénio Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Researcher at University of Coimbra, Portugal

Automated Floor Plan Design: Generation, Simulation, and Optimization PhD Advisors: Adélio Gaspar (FCTUC), Álvaro Gomes Martins (FCTUC)

Filipa Amorim Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Planning generation in liberalising and decarbonising electricity systems: The Portuguese case. PhD Advisors: Victor Martins (ISEG-UL), Patrícia Pereira da Silva (FEUC), Jorge Vasconcelos (NEWES)

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SES PhD Alumni Filipa Carlos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Senior Researcher at IES - Social Entrepreneurship Institute, Portugal

Prioritizing Renewable Energy Resources based on Environmental and Energy Quality Criteria PhD Advisors: Eduardo Fernandesa (FEUP), Maria do Rosário Partidário (IST-UL)

João Lagarto Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Market power evaluation in electricity markets PhD Advisors: Álvaro Martins (ISEG-UL), Jorge Sousa (ISEL-IPL), Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL)

Leonardo Bremermann Nationality: Venezuelian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Researcher at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil

Impact Evaluation of the Large Scale Integration of Electric Vehicles in the Security of Supply PhD Advisors: Manuel Matos (FEUP), João Abel Peças Lopes (FEUP)

Luis Andrade de Freitas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Time-Domain Impedance-based fault location for HVDC Transmission lines PhD Advisors: Teresa Ponce Leão (FEUP), Hélder Leite (FEUP)

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SES PhD Alumni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

2015 2015

Anabela Carvalho

Thermal energy storage control for space conditioning systems based on ground source heat pump PhD Advisors: Aníbal De Almeida (ISR - University of Coimbra)

Claudio Vergara Nationality: Colombian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Representing Battery Energy Storage in Electric Power System Studies PhD Advisors: João Peças Lopes (FEUP), Ignacio Pérez-Arríaga (UPComillas)

Lauro Ribeiro Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Adjunt Faculty at Faculdade Meridional - IMED

Large-scale Microalgae cultivation for Biofuel production: an economical approach PhD Advisors: Patrícia Silva (FEUC)

Mariana Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Architect, teacher and researcher at NGO - M_EIA – Instituto Universitário de Arte, Tecnologia e Cultura, Supervisor - Leão Lopes

The thermal assessment of the architectural design of housing for portugal PhD Advisors: Eduardo Oliveira Fernandes (FEUP); Manuel Arriaga Brito Correia Guedes (IST-UTL)

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SES PhD Alumni Pedro Fonte Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Auxiliar professor at Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal

Advanced forecast and scheduling of power systems with highly variable sources PhD Advisors: Fernado Maciel Barbosa (FEUP), Cláudio Monteiro (FEUP)

Pedro Nunes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Universidade de Lisboa

Enabling solar electricity with electric vehicles in future energy systems PhD Advisors: Miguel Brito (FCUL)

Sérgio Casimiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Principal Investigator at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Center for Complex Engineering Systems (CCES), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Concentrating Solar Power + Desalination Plants (CSP+D): Models and Performance Analysis PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL), Christos Ioakimidis (Deustos Institute of Technology)

Zeus Guevara Nationality: Mexican Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Economic Research UNAM

Three level energy decoupling PhD Advisors: Tiago Domingos (IST); Tânia Sousa; Tiago Domingos (IST)

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SES PhD Alumni Catarina Rolim

2016

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher at IST-UL

Impacts of adopting on board ICT and training on driving behavior, safety, energy and environment: application to light duty vehicles and buses PhD Advisors: Tiago Farias (IST-UL), Patricia Batista (IST-UL)

Diana Neves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher at IN+ at IST-UL

Optimization of hybrid renewable energy systems on isolated microgrids: a smart grid approach PhD Advisors: António Vallêra (FCUL), Carlos Santos Silva (IST-UL)

Raquel Segurado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher at IDMEC/IST-UL

Energy planning model to increase renwable energy penentration in isolated enery systems (islands and remote locations) PhD Advisors: Graça Carvalho (IST-UL), Mário Costa (IST-UL)

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SES EM Students

2014/2015

Goreti Guedes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: IFaculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: A400 Projetistas e Consultores de Engenharia

2015/2016

Cláudia Simões da Rocha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Techical Manager at SGS

José Gonçalves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Maria João Mendes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: EDP

Shadie Broumandi Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

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Delfina Menezes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Blossom Essence, Lda

Julien Gorintin Nationality: French Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: CTO at Metigate, France

Monica Eskander Nationality: Egyptian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Teresa Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

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SES EM Alumni

2008 2008

Ana Caeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Statoil (Norway)

André Rocha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: ERSE

Filipe Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Gonçalo Marques

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André Baptista Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

Cristina Martins Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Gabriela Cabral Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Márcia Pereira

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Maria Martins do Nascimento

Nuno Figueiredo

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Estradas de Portugal

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Plant Manager at F.L. Gaspar, S.A.

SES EM Alumni Paulo Picão Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Process Quality Manager at Coriant, Portugal

Pedro Vicente Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher at WavEC - Offshore Renewables

Pedro Miranda Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Rubens Bião Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: VBE - Vaz Bião Engenharia

Tiago Seabra Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Hidra, Hidraulica e Ambiente, Lda

Hugo Dias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

Fernando Diu Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: UTAP - Technical Support Unit for PPP Projects, Ministry of Finance

2008 2009

Afonso Sebastião

Isabel Abreu Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Executive Director at ALER, Lusophone Renewable Energy Association

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SES EM Alumni

2009

João Barreiros Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Head at IT Planning & Business Relationship Management - Galp Energia

João Schmidt Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Jenner Renewables

Jorge Lucas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: TAP Portugal

José Lavado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Vivapower Selfenergy

Manuel Rebelo da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Advanta Global Services

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João Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Dinergia, SA

Jorge Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

José Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

José Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Maria Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

SES EM Alumni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Affinity Water

Mariana Coimbra Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Student at The Lisbon MBA - Católica | Nova

Nuno Afonso Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Finertec Energia SGPS, SA

Pedro Gaspar Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Mechanical Design Engineer at National Oilwell Varco

Sandillo Banerjee Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: U.S. Embassy, Mexico

Maria Moura Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Accenture Portugal

2009

Maria Correia

Miguel Bettencourt Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: European Parliament

Nuno Domingues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Government of Azores

Ricardo Cardoso Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Sérgio Amaral Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: EDP Labelec

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SES EM Alumni

2010

Ana Sofia Catarino Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Project officer at European Maritime Safety Agency

Alex Agustí Nationality: Spanish Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Inn2Grid

Diana Fresco de Bastos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Hugo Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: INEGI PORTO

Joana Grilo de Brito Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

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André Botelho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Christian Pires Nationality: French Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Francisco Veiga de Macedo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Manvia - Grupo Mota-Engil

Isabel Azevedo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (SES) at FEUP

João Borges Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

SES EM Alumni João Ferreira dos Reis Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Pall Corporation

João Pires Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

José Pinto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Luís Viúla Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Peninsula Petroleum

Marco Barnstorf Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

João Neves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, UAE

Jorge Dorotêa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Consulgal - Consultores de Engenharia e Gestão, S.A.

José Rico Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Direção Geral de Energia e Geologia

Márcio Cardoso Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Maria Roldão Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: ADENE - Portuguese Energy Agency

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SES EM Alumni Nelson Teodoro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Country Manager at Novabase

Nuno Martins da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Ruben Eiras Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Ministery of the Sea, Government of Portugal

Tiago Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Your Savings

Zenaida Mourão Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Berkeley Lab

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Nuno Aguiar Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Galp Energia

Pedro Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Tiago Araújo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

Vasco Consciência Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: JLL

SES EM Alumni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Partex Oil and Gas

Andres Gomez Nationality: Venezuelan Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Diretor at WHITE SEA - Property Management lda / Portugal

António Meneres Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Crittercism

Cátia Andrade Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Cundall

Francisco Gonçalves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: EDA

Analia Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: COFELY Portugal - GDF SUEZ

2011

Adriano Granadeiro

António Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: GE Power

António Vieira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Analyst

Daniel Astbury Nationality: Australian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: DNV GL

Guilherme Martins Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: TDGI, S.A. - Tecnologia de Gestão de Imóveis S.A.

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SES EM Alumni

2011

Hugo Afonso Valente Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: REN - Rede Eléctrica Nacional, S.A.

João Valentim dos Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Engineer at kW Engineering, USA

Lara Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Commercial Manager at TrustWind/ Portugal

Nathan Lee Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Temporary Research Scholarship Holder

Pedro Gomes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: EDP

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Jerónimo Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Direcção Geral de Energia e Geologia

John Rowland Nationality: British Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: CBRE

Manuel Godinho de Mira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Nónio Hiross

Olga Ribeiro de Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

Sandro Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: REN

SES EM Alumni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Researcher at FEUP

Sofia Matias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Albatroz Engineering

2011

Sara Coelho de Magalhães

Sofia Patrício Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Business Development, Galp

António Neves da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Strategy & Marketing Manager at Veolia (Corporate), France

Cristina Ferreira de Andrade Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: P55 Art & Auctions

Amélia Areias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: European Commission

2012 2012

Afonso Paixão

António Pires Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Board Member at Carris, Metropolitano de Lisboa, Transtejo

Duarte Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Operations Manager, Co-Owner and Founder of OCTO - Sustainable Lifestyle

163

SES EM Alumni

2012

Gonçalo Garcia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: HeidelbergCement

Joana Simões Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

João Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Professor at NOVA Schoolf of Business and Economics

Luis Guerreiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: CEO of brain-e.co and Msc student Public Policy, ISCTE

Pedro Frade Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: REN

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Jamie Chivers Nationality: Australian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Energon Power Resources Pvt Ltd

João Nunes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Process Engineer at GalpenergiaMatosinhos, Portugal

José Moreno Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: POAO Group

Marisa Abadeço Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: EDP, Portugal

Pedro Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

Adriano Oliveira

Ana Costa

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: NOS

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Ana Repas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: EHSS Specialist at PMI

Cláudia Mafra Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: ISQ

Kosmas Spyridon Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

Nuno Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Civil Engineer at B.C.D., Portugal

Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Director and Instructor at Magistra

2013

SES EM Alumni

António Morais Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Nanoquantum

Diogo Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: EDP

Natalie Samovich Nationality: Latvian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Research and Innovation Programs manager and Co-founder, Enercoutim/ Portugal

Sara Jesus Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa

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SES EM Alumni

2013

Simone Pio Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: EPAL/Águas de Lisboa e Vale do Tejo, S.A.

2014 2014

Ana Cardoso Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: ADENE - Portuguese Energy Agency

Duarte Borges Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Maintenance Contract Manager at Sousa Pedro SA, Portugal

Franclim Cardozo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: CLIP - The Oporto International School

Nuno Soares Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Sales accountant at Iskra

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Tiago Brazio Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Cundall, UK

Ana Dias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Grupo ProCME

Francisco Correia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Siemens

Martin Amarfil Nationality: Ecuadorian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Latin American Energy Organization

SES EM Alumni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (SES) at FEUP

Ana Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: IFaculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

André Vaz Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: PhD candidate at TU Delft & Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI), The Netherlands

Diogo Correia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: QUADRANTE, Engenharia SA

Jorge Rocha e Castro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Qualified Expert on PQ-I e PQ-II, Freelancer

Ana Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Pricing Manager of Gas & Power at Galp Energia

2015 2015

Alda Henriques

Ana Raposo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: FCT

Bruno Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Technical Management of Construction at CLEAR, S.A., Portugal

Filipa Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Project manager and Sales engineer at Siemens, Portugal

Juliana Mitkiewicz Nationality: Polish Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (SES) at FEUP

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SES EM Alumni Mรกrio Coelho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: MIT Portugal PhD student (SES) at FEUP

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Thiago Moreira Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Light

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Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing The increased complexity of modern engineering calls for engineering leadership that is able to accommodate a combination of technical performance, environmental awareness, and social and political responsibility within a systems perspective. The Leaders for Technical Industries (LTI) doctoral program combines engineering, management, social sciences, innovation, leadership, and systems thinking in a paradigm-shifting approach to the education of engineering leaders and innovators for technical industries. The LTI program is strongly grounded in an engineering systems approach that couples education and research, and is at the European forefront of doctoral research placements in industry. The curricular structure of the taught course has been specially designed to address the needs of industry. It addresses core areas in product development, advanced manufacturing, and industrial management. The curriculum was developed jointly by MIT and Portuguese faculty, in many cases by creating entirely new modules never before offered at either MIT or in Portugal, and reflecting continuous refinements based on student and faculty assessments. LTI’s research strategy is to develop an educationally-coupled research program, requiring the researchers to have strong industry interactions. Breaking with methods of the past, the introduction of collaborative mechanisms for conducting research brings together teams of people from multiple universities and industrial partners who have unique capabilities for collaboration and delivering highquality outcomes. Research projects based on industry challenges are the central components of the Program. In cooperation with firms experienced in product development, design and other aspects of R&D, LTI research projects focus mainly on topics related to design and advanced manufacturing, and on the product development process in the automotive, railway, aerospace and medical devices industrial sectors. The students’ internship experiences strengthen their understanding of the entire innovation valuechain as taught in the course work. The final piece of the strategy is the involvement of European companies in LTl’s research activities. There has been notable success in attracting companies with which LTI students may work. The LTI program’s goal is to train a new generation of leaders for companies that have high technological profiles. LTI graduates will foster innovative application of state-of the art knowledge in successful products and/or processes, enabling a new European paradigm in managing product development and production systems.

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Affiliated Institutions Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Universidade do Minho Escola de Engenharia (UMinho) Universidade do Porto Facudade de Engenharia (FEUP) Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Industrial Affiliates LABORIAL, AJC, SOPREFA; ADIRA, HOVIONE, IBEROLEFF, SIMOLDES PLÁSTICOS, CELOPLÁS PETROTEC; CONTINENTAL, ROLLS-ROYCE, COLEP, CAETANOBUS, TRANSDEV, Altakitin, Hovione, Celgene Cellular Therapeutics, Innocore Pharmaceuticals, Crioestaminal S.A., CEiiA, Metalsa, INEGI (Porto), Iberomoldes, VW Autoeuropa, OGMA, TAP, ITA (Brasil), Embraer, Celoplas, Alstom, GM, TMG Automotive, Soprefa, Ford Research & Advanced Engineering Europe, CENTI, VW AutoEuropa, ADIRA, CATIM, Grupo AMI - Assistência Médica Integral (Casa de Saúde de Guimarães, SA), Hospital Privado de Guimarães, CIE Automotive, BOSCH Car Multimedia, CEIIA, OLESA, SAR Robotica, FiberSensing, Petrotec, LiquidPiston

Faculty PhD Director and Coordinator @IST: Elsa Henriques PhD Director @MIT: Bruce Tidor PhD Coordinator @FEUP: Francisco Pires PhD Coordinator @UMinho: Pedro Arezes

Alcibíades P. Guedes (FEUP) Alexandra Rodrigues (IST) Alexandre Ferreira da Silva (UMinho) Américo Azevedo (FEUP) António Augusto Fernandes (FEUP) António J. Pontes (UMinho) António Lucas Soares (FEUP) António Luis Moreira(IST) António M. Cunha (UMinho) António Manuel Relógio Ribeiro (IST) António Paisana (UMinho) António Torres Marques (FEUP) Arlindo Silva (IST) Bernardo Almada-Lobo (FEUP) Carlos A. Bernardo (UMinho) Carlos Lucas de Freitas (IST) Christopher L. Magee (MIT) Daniel E. Whitney (MIT)

Eduardo Beira (UMinho) Edward B. Acworth (MIT) Elsa Henriques (IST) F. Jorge Lino Alves (FEUP) Francisco Pires (FEUP) Frank R. Field III (MIT) Gustavo R. Dias (UMinho) Helder C. Rodrigues (IST) Higino Correia (UMinho) Jeremy R. Gregory (MIT) João Pedro Nunes (UMinho) Joel P. Clark (MIT) José A. Covas (UMinho) José Manuel Mendonça (FEUP) Júlio C. Viana (UMinho) Lia Patrício (FEUP) Luís A. Rocha (UMinho) Luis Faria (IST)

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Luis Reis (IST) Luís Rocha (UMinho) Madalena Araújo (UMinho) Manuel Freitas (IST) Mihail Fontul (IST) Olga S. Carneiro (UMinho) Paulo Martins (UMinho) Paulo Peças (IST) Pedro Arezes (UMinho) Pedro Oliveira (UMinho)

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Pedro P. Camanho (FEUP) Randolph E. Kirchain (MIT) Renato Natal Jorge (FEUP) Ricardo Simões (UMinho) Richard Roth (MIT) Rui Baptista (IST) Rui M.S.O. Baptista (IST) Stanley B. Gershwin (MIT) Valério de Carvalho (UMinho) Warren Seering (MIT)

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How has MPP contributed to your career development?

MPP increased my broadmindedness. This characteristic helps me to address the problems more deeply by being able to aggregate several points of view without losing the critical spirit. ClĂĄudia Duarte, PhD

MPP inspired me to pursue a rewarding professional career. It helped me develop a global conscience and become highly competitive in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technical industry. Nino Pereira, PhD

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MPP presents a Ph.D. program focused on R&D with industrial partners and in management and product development tools. Combining this new skills with the Ph.D. diploma, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been able to present a different and interesting profile that ISVOUGA was looking for: A Ph.D. graduate with knowledge in product development, management, and at the same time with experience of working in R&D with industrial partners. MPP enabled me to explore problems scientifically in manufacturing. As a Management Consultant, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m engaged in projects with clients in the automotive industry. To compete in global markets, we help them develop products of higher quality. The scientific knowledge in quality management and the industrial experience I gained is a distinguishing feature of my current job position. Good commands of languages may be key to my future career. Nuno Loureiro, PhD

The most relevant contribution that MPP has given me was the opportunity to learn from and with engineering design experts, in order to be able to understand the customer experience with products or services and afterwards to incorporate it into complex product-service system development. Rui Carreira, PhD

During my PhD, I had a great balance of academia and industry. I gained the experience of working with international companies (mainly Petrotec and partially Bosch) on actual real case problems on product design and development. Seyyed Sabet, PhD

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LTI PhD Students Bruno Soares

2015 2008/2009

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Design for X: Cork Composites and their Role in Sustainable Development PhD Advisors: Luis Reis (IST-UL)

Luis Reis Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Ricardo Torcato Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Modeling the product development process: the RIM case study PhD Advisors: Ricardo Santos (FEUP), António Fernandes (FEUP), Madalena Dia (FEUP), Randolf Kirchain (MIT), Rich Roth (MIT)

Irene Carvalho

2015 2009/2010

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

New Opportunities In Passenger Cars Design For Improved Efficiency Of Energy Use - An Engineering Systems Approach PhD Advisors: Arlindo Silva (IST-UL), Ricardo Simões (UMinho) This dissertation is aimed at proposing a paradigm shift in managing the problem solving of energy use of passenger cars and subsequent emissions, namely CO2 emissions, of fuel-based passenger cars. It shows how redefining the problem statement, the solution space can be enlarged and bring a new logic and new knowledge. The main argument of this dissertation that lead to a redefinition of the problem statement starts by bringing to the analysis of the energy use by passenger cars a new variable: the users; then the original system, the passenger car, is redefining and included in a macro-system composed by the passenger car and the users. This is now a single entity; is this entity that requires energy to satisfy its automobility requirements (needs and wants) that is studied in terms of downstream and upstream impacts (energy demand and emissions) of using passenger cars.

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LTI PhD Students Ricardo Figueiredo de Sá Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Industrial machine structural components’ optimization and redesign PhD Advisors: Ferrie van Hattum (UMinho), José Sá (FEUP), Joel Clark (MIT)

Sara Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Light-duty vehicles energy and emissions “eco-score” considering total life cycle and different end-users PhD Advisors: Carla Silva (IST-UL), Luís G. Reis (IST-UL), João Luiz Afonso (UMinho) The development of this work aims the rating of energy and CO2 emissions of light-duty vehicles considering several technologies (internal combustion engine vehicles, fuel cell vehicles, pure electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles) and different end users (urban, highway, mix driving and driving frequency). An assessment of the optimization model for possible technology/end user combinations will be conducted using heuristic methods, considering energy consumption and CO2 emissions emitted along total life cycle. A benefit analysis of a smart connection to the grid will be performed, regarding environmental aspects and its inclusion in the rating. The main innovative aspect of this work is to fulfill the gap created by the actual labeling methods for vehicles, which is not set for new vehicle technologies (e.g. electric and hybrid).

Senay Sadic Nationality: Turkish Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Collaborative planning in dynamic networks PhD Advisors: Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP), José António Almeida Crispim (UMinho) Dynamic manufacturing networks (DMN) are collaborative networks of autonomous companies (mainly SMEs) that are quickly formed to respond prompt business opportunities. Unlike partnership models, DMNs pool their resources, share real time data and operate via a centralized platform. As order-driven networks, lifecycle of DMNs is composed of network formation, execution/monitoring and dissolution stages. This thesis contributes to DMN literature in the network formation and operational planning area. Utilizing several Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) models, our objective is to support optimal lot sizing and assignment decisions. Initially, we present an extended model for globally dispersed DMNs with dispersed demand and mode selection functionalities. Later we deal with multi objective models by also taking into account other objectives as performance and reconfigurability.

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LTI PhD Students Alvaro Soto

2015 2010/2011

Nationality: Mexican Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Methodology for the Architecting of Time Dependent Complex Manufacturing Systems - An Engineering System Approach PhD Advisors: Arlindo Silva (IST-UL), Elsa Henriques (IST-UL), Jorge Lino (FEUP), Juan Villarreal (Metalsa) The architecting of manufacturing systems is studied through the lens of the “engineering systems”, this research proposes a “holistic system architecting methodology (HSAM)” base on a systematic analysis and synthesis research methods (AD,Cladistics, DCC, DSM) oriented to manage the complexity associated with the design of changeable and evolvable assembly systems; the requirements from automotive industry demand a HASM able to guide the early design process to meet not only the short term demands for productivity and functionalities (cost, quality and efficiency) but also to provide the system with the required long term properties (“ilities”) in order to react to market externalities such as new product materials, wider product variety, fluctuations in demand and global production footprint; the proposed methodology is currently being validated through several case studies.

André Camboa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Development of lightweight and cost-efficient exterior automotive body panels for electric vehicles PhD Advisors: João Nunes (UMinho), Fernando Alves (INEGI) Current electric vehicles still present low autonomy as major disadvantage, which with high car prices lead to a low public demand and consequently to small production volumes. A problem that may be solved through several improvements, among them, the reduction of vehicle´s weight by using low density materials and cost-efficient manufacturing processes. Relatively to the exterior body panels, polymer-metal hybrid (PMH) configurations with polydicyclopentadiene (PDCPD) arise as a relevant solution for both weight and cost reduction, contradicting those conventional configurations with high manufacturing costs. Thus, this research aims to develop and measure in terms of economic and physical attributes some exterior automotive body panels with the previously mentioned PMH configuration, in order to answer to how light and cost-efficient are them to be applied in future electric vehicles.

Bruno Gonçalves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

The use of advanced technologies on lifecycle assessment of infrastructures PhD Advisors: Paulo Lourenço (UMinho), José Matos (UMinho) The PhD has 3 main phases/objectives: 1st - development of a mobile platform to streamline field inspections and infrastructures assessment; 2nd - development of infrastructure degradation/failure Markov-based prediction model for a stock of infrastructures; 3rd - integrate previous objectives and apply optimization methods to generate the best management strategy.

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LTI PhD Students Jean-Loup Loyer Nationality: French Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Big Data-inspired statistical modeling of lifecycle cost to support financial evaluation of jet engine programs during preliminary design PhD Advisors: Elsa Henriques (IST-UL), Youssef Marzouk (MIT)

Carlos Barbosa

2011/2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Integration of Engineering, Manufacturing and Economic Issues in Design against Impact of Polymer Automotive Components PhD Advisors: Ricardo Simões (UMinho), Julio Viana (UMinho), Markus Franzen (Ford), Thomas Baranowski (Ford) I am working under a cooperation with Institute for Polymer and Composites (University of Minho, Portugal) and Ford Research & Advanced Engineering Europe (Aachen, Germany). My research project addresses injection molding simulations for predicting local (per finite element mesh model) mechanical properties of injection molded parts that can be an input for structural/crash simulations. The goal is to have an improved design methodology, supported by more precise simulations than what is currently possible. Besides, the project aims at combining this information with a cost model for the part and process. Finally, taking in consideration the technical (mechanical behavior) and economic (costs) aspects, a decision making approach will be setup, at the design stage of the PDD process, in order to establish relatively faster and accurately the most reliable and cost-effective design option.

Inês Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Integrating comfort in air-vents’ design PhD Advisors: António Ribeiro (IST-UL), Mihail Fontul (IBER-OLEFF) Original equipment manufacturers (OEM) are becoming more interested in the sense of brand and comfort perception of clients, as differentiation strategy. However, these issues are highly subjective and difficult to define, thus the comfort requirements provided to suppliers are generally ill-defined. OEM suppliers usually perform several iterations in a trial and error base, before the approval of the final prototype. The main objective of this project is to develop a methodology to assist OEM suppliers in product development projects, leading to a higher rate of design project success and less iterations. This will be attained by creating a model of comfort, which will correlate the physical performance of the product under development with the perception of the user.

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LTI PhD Students Jakub Kwapisz Nationality: Polish Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Searching for standardization and commonality opportunities in industrial product portfolios PhD Advisors: Virginia Infante (IST-UL), Manuel Freitas (IST-UL) Standardized and common components are recognized as a means of meeting changing customer needs within reasonable cost and time parameters.This research develops a logical and efficient methodology for finding parts and concepts in large databases, and analyzing them from commonality perspective. Identified parts represent commonality opportunities and standard solutions for use among varying product portfolios. Two industrial implementation examples are presented to illustrate the feasibility and potential of the proposed methodology.This research improves the current state of part commonality nominations. An efficient method of choosing parts for commonality studies has a high impact on future academic investigations and practitioner applications.

João Azenha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

High strength injection molded thermoplastic composites PhD Advisors: António Pontes (UMinho) The objective of this project is to analyze the main obstacles and determine a new method to use injection molding to make structural thermoplastics composite parts reinforced with dry continuous fabrics. The very high viscosity of the molten thermoplastics prevents the use of the traditional thermoset based manufacturing processes. However the very high pressure used in injection molding processes opens possibilities for an alternative with specific mold configurations and injection parameters.

João Figueiredo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

New Roles for Engineering and Industrial Design in the Development of Highly Complex Products PhD Advisors: Correia Nuno (INEGI), Ruivo Inês (Uévora), Lino Jorge (FEUP) Departing from a historical retrospective, which relates engineering, industrial design and technology, this research’s aims to the development of a multidisciplinary methodological outline in accordance with the current technological and social paradigms. Within this research, technology is considered for the role of mediator between engineering and industrial design, has, in some historical moments, served as an integrator of these two differently rooted disciplines, in processes which have led to innovation. Moreover, in the conflict between technology and society lied the reform and regulation for design practice, in its broadest sense.

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LTI PhD Students João Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Hybrid CFRP/metallic composites for high performance bolted joints PhD Advisors: Luis Reis (IST-UL), Pedro Ponces Camanho (FEUP) Recent research applied to the space industry has shown that a significant increase in bearing resistance of composite bolted joints can be achieved by introducing metallic plies in place of the composite plies in the vicinity of the bolted area, or local hybridization carbon fiber/metallic laminate. This research is aimed at developing this bolted joint to an aeronautical application where it will have to solve new problems like fatigue, damage tolerance, reparability, and cost-effective design.

Lídia Teixeira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Masoud Bodaghi Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Miguel Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Alternative energy source for agricultural vehicles PhD Advisors: António Araújo (FEUP), António BaptIST-ULa (INEGI) Study of an alternative energy source for agricultural vehicles. Reduce energy consumption Reduce/eliminate dependency of oil Reduce CO2 emissions.

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LTI PhD Students Miguel Vieira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Towards the development of a decision support tool for the planning and scheduling of biopharmaceutical facilities PhD Advisors: Tânia Pinto-Varela (IST-UL), Ana Barbosa-Póvoa (IST-UL) The optimal planning and scheduling of industrial operations is crucial for improving production performance and flexibility to market demand. The application of mathematical modeling to real industrial problems remains a challenge, either to model the complex requirements of the manufacturing process, the computational limitations in tackling large planning horizons, or the integration with operational decision systems. The scope of biopharmaceuticals have been gathering particular attention due to its effectiveness in the treatment of diseases such as cancer, diabetes or growth disturbances, raising new production management constraints. This research aims to explore and develop efficient modeling techniques to solve large scale planning/scheduling problems in the biopharmaceutical industry and discuss its deployment as a decision-support system in a real production environment.

Nuno Valverde Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A contribution to product development methodologies addressing user interaction quality: A case study in the design of automotive Human-Machine Interfaces with ill-defined perceptual requirements PhD Advisors: António Ribeiro (IST-UL), Mihail Fontul (IBER-OLEFF) A car’s quality is, also, the quality of the interaction with its infotainment. OEMs demand their suppliers’ products that elicit coherent and positive user experience. However, product development processes are hindered by ill-defined requirements. My research addresses perceptual requirements in HMIs. I measured prototypes’ acoustic and mechanical feedback and I applied psychophysical models for hearing and haptics for an objective perspective on perception. With the OEM and its supplier, I achieved quality evaluations, capturing subjective data. By employing advanced statistics, I established relationships between subjective variables and measured data. My contribution, a methodology that translates required perceptual quality into well-defined design specifications, aims at R&D processes with interaction quality requirements, still in early design stages and beyond automotive HMIs.

Pouya Samani Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Sustainable pre-fabricated composite housing PhD Advisors: Nuno Correia (INEGI), Adélio Mendes (FEUP), Vítor Leal (FEUP), Jeremy Gregory (MIT) Development of a building which is sustainable, passive, energy self-sufficient and pre-fabricated as a sheltering and housing solution for developing countries in Africa.

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LTI PhD Students Abdolrasoul Sohouli

2012/2013

Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Multi-disciplinary design optimization of curvilinear fiber composites PhD Advisors: Afzal Suleman (IST-UL) The objective of work is to develop a multidisciplinary design framework of curvilinear fiber composites as Variable Stiffness Composite Laminates to increase structural performance (such as buckling and fatigue) and, to reduce cost and manufacturing risk with considering manufacturability. The inherent manufacturing risks are associated with gaps and overlaps producing in manufacturing process. The manufacturability of composite consists of continuity of fiber path and curvature of paths. In terms of cost modeling, a comprehensive cost model is modeled including material, cycle time of manufacturing process, labor and lifetime of product. Finally, A decision tree will be modeled as decision support tool to review the possible scenarios to ease judge for decision maker with having a set of optimal designs from the Pareto frontier.

Ananth Rajkumar Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Improved methodologies for the design of extrusion forming tools PhD Advisors: Olga Carneiro (UMinho), João Miguel Nóbrega (UMinho), Zeljko Tukovic (University of zagreb) Thermoplastic profiles being more attractive due to their inherent design freedom. However, the usual methodologies employed to design extrusion forming tools, based on experimental based trial–and–error procedures, are highly dependent on the designer’s experience and lead to high resources consumption. These difficulties are even more evident when a complex geometry profile has to be produced and there is no previous experience with similar geometries. Therefore, novel design approaches are required, in order to reduce the required resources and guarantee a good performance for the produced profile. The numerical developments of the improved design approach will be made in the framework of an open source computational library OpenFOAM® (Open source Field Operation and Manipulation).

Bruna Mota Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Sustainable supply chain design and planning PhD Advisors: Maria Isabel Gomes (FCT-UNL), Ana Paula Barbosa-Póvoa (IST-UL) The increasing societal concern with the environment is pressing industry practitioners and policy makers to reduce the negative environmental impact of supply chains. The same is taking place with the social impact of companies, especially due to the financial crisis the world is facing. Given the number of factors involved, supply chain optimization addressing these concerns constitutes a major challenge. This work plans to be a step forward in this direction. The goal is to define environmental and social indicators, including legislation constraints as well as concepts such as industrial ecology and symbiosis, into a multi-objective generic optimisation model to be used for decision support at the supply chain design and planning level. The outcome should point us towards the best practices in creating a holistic sustainable supply chain.

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LTI PhD Students Elçin Calado Nationality: Turkish - Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Selection of composite materials considering cost and environmental impact in the early phases of aircraft design PhD Advisors: Arlindo Silva (IST-UL), Marco Leite (IST-UL) The objective of this research study is to create a material selection framework that will lead the designer to select the most suitable composite material for the aerospace applications based on the targets related to product performance, economic achievements and environmental impacts over a product’s life‑cycle in a multi‑disciplinary and multi‑objective optimization scenario.

João Antunes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Integrated inventory-transportation planning PhD Advisors: Maria Sameiro Carvalho (UMinho)

Jorge Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Automatic detection of drusen associated with age-related macular degeneration in optical coherence tomography: a graph-based approach PhD Advisors: Carlos Silva (UMinho), Manuel Ferreira (UMinho) The thesis’ goal is the development of an automatic algorithm for drusen segmentation in OCT volumes. Drusen are accumulations of materials at the bottom of the retina. Drusen’s volume can give valuable information to the physians about the progress of the age-related macular degeneration, a hazourdous and widespread disease. The segmentation method will be based on the graph cuts framework due to its flexibility, robustness and its good performance in similar tasks.

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LTI PhD Students Lígia Figueiredo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development and evaluation of an orthopedic absorbable implant based on chitosan PhD Advisors: Alexandra Rodrigues (ISEL/IST-UL), Frederico Ferreira (IST-UL), Luís Pinto (Altakitin S.A.) The main medical applications of chitosan-based products include wound dressing sutures and tissue engineering scaffolds. However, the application of chitosan and its derivatives in 3D forms is very limited due to the inherent difficulties of the development process. The aim of this work is to produce and characterize 3D dense pieces based on chitosan to be used as (internal) bioabsorbable fixation devices. These products require the right strength and stiffness, which are necessary to allow the movement and comfort of the patient until the biological tissue is reconstructed. Additionally, they must be biocompatible, induce the bone formation and degrade over time. In this sense, experimental research work related with the optimization of the manufacturing process of the 3D chitosan pieces will be performed, involving its mechanical, microstructural and biological characterization.

Nina Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Towards an integrated approach to design human-centred product-service solutions PhD Advisors: Lia Patrício (FEUP), Nicola Morelli (Aalborg University) Servitization - process to shift from product manufacturer to product-service system solution provider - has been recognised as a strategic service research priority. As such, this thesis aims to develop a new method to enable organisations to design integrated good and service solutions, while better leveraging customer experiences. In the last decades, manufacturers have been infusing service in their product offerings. Two research streams aim at designing solutions: Product-service system design and service design; however they have not been integrated. Through a design research approach, new methods and tools are developed to infuse service in organizations; support them to think holistically about their business context, and enable them to co-create new meaningful and integrated product-service solutions with their customers and partners.

Rita Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

The User Emotions and Experience Problem: Guidelines to support the development of new institutions centered on users’ emotions and experiences PhD Advisors: João Manuel R. S. Tavares (FEUP) The aim of this project will be to study the user experience and emotions inside a specific institution, and see their relation with the layout and other physical elements of the institution (for example the signage and informational symbols). After gathering information about the influence that these elements (layout, signage, etc) have in the overall experience of the user, a set of guidelines, based on the necessary improvements of these elements, will be created to act as a support for the development of new institutions. By following the resulting guidelines, the developers will be able to avoid problems that exist in the current institutions and they will also be able to build the best environment in the institution that will lead to a better experience and better emotions felt by the users when using the services provided.

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LTI PhD Students Andreia Araújo

2015 2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Protein-based polyurethanes PhD Advisors: Ana Vera Machado (UMinho), Bradley Olsen (MIT) Polyurethanes (PUs) are one of the most pervasive engineering plastics in our society, finding widespread applications that include the construction and the automotive industries. The high toxicity of the PU monomers, fluctuations in oil prices, along with the increasing environmental concerns are leading the search for replacements to improve both safety and sustainability. This work aims to take existing efforts on renewable PU in a new direction, engineering hard blocks from protein biomass, such as wheat gluten and soy protein, to enable fully-renewable PU formulations. A major scientific challenge is the high chemical diversity of the denatured crude protein, making control over the reactive pathway more difficult. The produced materials, in the form of coatings and bulk plastics, will be analysed using a full range of thermal, chemical and mechanical characterization techniques.

Daniel Braga Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Innovative structural connections for lightweight structural design PhD Advisors: Pedro Moreira (INEGI), Lucas da Silva (FEUP), Virginia Infante( IST-UL), Marco Pacchione (Airbus Operations), Jurgen Silvanus (Airbus Group Innovations ) Developing and implementing new manufacturing processes is key to face these challenges however in load critical structures, the fulfillment of safety regulations and well established design criteria is critical. A multi-disciplinary approach is required to address the complex issues associated with the implementation of new materials and technologies in all product stages; design, development, manufacturing, operation and maintenance, and finally disposal and recycling. This thesis aims at advancing the knowledge related to manufacturing technologies of lightweight integral metallic structures. A new joining process is proposed combining friction stir welding and adhesive bonding. Although the emphasis of this PhD project in on aeronautical applications the proposed technologies may be extrapolated to diverse industries with disruptive potential.

Duarte Dinis Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Optimal Production Planning and Scheduling in an Aircraft Maintenance Context PhD Advisors: Ana Póvoa (IST-UL) The aim of this PhD project is to develop a decision-making support tool that will support the maintenance management process of an aircraft MRO company, regarding capacity planning, spare parts forecasting, task scheduling, and resource allocation under the uncertainty that characterizes this activity. The tool will be based on optimization approaches designed to address in an environment of uncertainty and finite capacity. Moreover, calculations shall be conditioned by strategic, tactical, and operational directives of the company’s structure.

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LTI PhD Students Fernando Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

A Methodology for Smart-Verifications of Coordinate Measuring Machines PhD Advisors: Alexandre Ferreira da Silva (UMinho), Arlindo Silva (IST-UL) Nowadays, the globalization of economic activities has a progressive restructuring of business, tax and imposed the need to implement a set of cross-cutting strategies which privilege the dynamic factors of competitiveness, including internationalization, scientific research, innovation and development, quality certification, qualification of human resources, safety management, environmental management and energy efficiency. An economy supported in scientific knowledge search in innovation and development processes a decisive support. As such, innovation in processes and technology, products, services and management is clearly a strong impulse to the economic development. Considering the decisive importance of the knowledge and innovation to the economy, and to the development of the technological processes, the main purpose of this work, in dimensional and geometrical metrology field, is develop a methodology and a standard artefact to evaluate the performance of coordinate measuring machines (CMM’s), of different manufacturers, existing in research institutions, accredited laboratories, industry laboratories, etc. Although international standards such as ISO 9001:2008, ISO 10012:2003, ISO 10360-2:2009 or ISO/IEC 17025:2005 does not specify any type of methodology, but refer the importance and the need of carrying out intermediary verifications for conformity assessment of this type of equipment. According to the direct support that the CMM provide to the quality control process of the dimensional and geometric characteristics of manufactured products, the development of this project intends to contribute to reduce the nonconformities caused by metrological tests performed with equipment’s out of specifications, and thus minimize the economic, social and environmental impact that the situations can generate for an organization and a society. Thus, the main motivation for the development of this project is to contribute to the purpose known as the search for the “Zero Defects”, especially in the automotive industry (Matias, Oliveira & Coelho, 2011). The purpose of the search for the “Zero Defects”, on one hand means that all individuals in the organization are committed to meet the requirements at first time, and on the other hand means that are implemented several tools to support the processes that actively seek to ensure there are no parts out of specifications, typical of the manufacturing processes, which after released in the market may lead to the occurrence of failures and potential major accidents. Develop a methodology for implementation of conformity assessment tests for different types of CMM’s from different manufacturers, will be a complex task. In parallel, research, design and development of a standard artefact for execution of the tests will also be a major challenge In order to make the smart verifications tests a quick and intuitive task, and generator reliability.

João Manaia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Composite high-pressure hydrogen storage vessels: Design through production PhD Advisors: Francisco Pires (FEUP) My research is focused on product design and development, materials selection, numerical simulation and optimal design, manufacturing technologies, prototype and test, which will be explored taking into account social and economical aspects with regards to the entire product life.

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LTI PhD Students Márcia Baptista Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Aircraft Reliability Assessment based on Data-Intensive Analytics for Predictive Modeling PhD Advisors: Elsa Henriques (IST-UL), Helmut Prendinger (NII - Japan), Cairo L. Nascimento Júnior (ITA - Brasil) Prognostics plays an increasingly important role in preventive maintenance and aircraft safety. The data-driven technique has recently become a popular approach to aircraft prognostics due to its ease of use and efficacy. This approach consists in the use of past data and advanced statistics to derive estimates on the reliability of the equipment without relying on any physics or engineering principle. This thesis explores the application of data-driven techniques to aircraft prognostics. We illustrate this application with two industrial case studies, involving a jet engine and a critical unit of the aircraft bleed air system. The novelty of our work is the combination of new predictors and state-of-art approaches such as neural networks (NN) and Bayesian methods (BM).

Vitor Anes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Structural Health Monitoring in Composite Materials PhD Advisors: Luis Reis (IST-UL), Manuel Freitas (IST-UL) Structural weight reduction has a strong effect in the Co2 reduction, this reduction started with the replacement of structural steels by structural lightweight metals and now composites materials tends to replace them in order to go further in the weight reduction. Despite their high strength, stiffness, and low density, composites can exhibit complex types of damages. Recent researches indicate that these type of damages can not be fully characterized using the typical tools used in steels, thus it is required a new approach to fully capture their fatigue damage. This research aims to obtain fatigue models and damage accumulation models that captures fatigue damage in composites in order to be used in structural health monitoring. At the end, the research outcomes will be used in the design of composite structures and in monitoring of their residual fatigue life.

Carlos Gonçalves

2015 2014/2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Healthcare in Sporting Goods PhD Advisors: Ricardo Simões (UMinho), Alexandre Silva (UMinho) The goal of this thesis is develop a suit that can be used for healthcare monitoring during sports activity. For instance the aquatic sports as surf could bring many dangerous situations for the sportsman. Measuring the heart rate, blood pressure, body temperature and tracking the geographic position of the sportsman would be an advantage preventing dangerous situations.

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LTI PhD Students Carlos Teixeira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Carbon Nanotubes - From material to devices PhD Advisors: Luis Rocha (UMinho), Alexandre Silva (UMinho), Brian Wardle (MIT) Occasionally, new materials or processes emerge and lead to disruptive development cycles in terms of technology evolution. Over the last years, Carbon Nanotubes have been highlighted as the nanostructures that are almost performing the bridge between the materials and the devices. Still, it is not yet possible to find many devices able to take full advantage of the CNTs’ properties, mainly at mechanical, thermal and electric level. This research work intends to evaluate this bridge between CNTs as a material and CNTs-based devices through the production of a CNT-based functional transducer. The main tasks include i) the synthesis of Aligned-CNTs forest with the proper monitoring and control of the growth process; ii) synthesis process parameterization study; ii) design and selection of the transducer to be used as case-study; iv) transducer fabrication; v) transducer characterization.

Catarina Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Cátia Barbosa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Multi-dimensional performance assessment in complex manufacturing environments PhD Advisors: Américo Azevedo (FEUP/INESCTEC)

Diogo Rechena Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Mechanical Component Standardization

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LTI PhD Students João Faria Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Research and develop manufacturing methods for high accuracy positioning and fixing of components and subassemblies for a LIDAR system with the request to ensure the system accuracy over lifetime. PhD Advisors: Luís Alves (UMinho) Autonomous driving vehicles are expensive and restricted to luxury models but the goal for the near future is to spread the technology to be available for every car. The eyes of the system is a LIDAR sensor which is the responsible for mapping the environment around the vehicle. To become commercially attractive, one must develop manufacturing methods capable of positioning the opto-electronic components in µm-level (in all degree of freedom) on PCB. Besides, due to wide range of operating temperatures and laser heat generation, it is crucial to find materials with a coefficient of thermal expansion close to zero.

João Pires Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Rich-Lean Combustion in Low-NOx Burners for the Domestic Water Heaters Industry PhD Advisors: Edgar Fernandes (IST-UL) Access the relevance of rich-lean combustion for domestic water heating burners and its impact in some of the major requirements and traditional products of these products.

José Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Towards a New Generation of Gas-fired Water Heating Systems

Luiz Cardoso Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Smart cities and intelligent environments. Intelligent sensor networks. Cooperative sensing and multisource data fusion in smart city applications. Advanced personal transportation with intelligent light electric vehicles.

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LTI PhD Students Miguel Neto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

On the development of Flexible non-volatile Magnetoresistive Random Access Memories PhD Advisors: Susana Freitas (IST-UL) Flexible Electronics is the field that studies electronic devices that can be bent, folded, stretched or conformed without the loss of their functionality. The development and mastering of technologies capable of producing Flexible Electronics is considered a competitive advantage when compared to conventional electronics, because it allows companies to offer completely new product concepts, and depending on the manufacturing process, lower energy consumption and environmentally friendly materials and processes. This thesis focuses on the study of producing flexible electronics using conventional electronics manufacturing process. It aims to understand the design and manufacturing changes needed to incorporate in the conventional electronic circuits so that they can be bent without the loss of their functionality.

Paulo Francisco Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Luís Faria (IST-UL), Ricardo Simões (IPCA)

Sandra Gonçalves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Development of an optrode for optogenetics applications PhD Advisors: José Higino Correia (UMinho) Interfaces capable of communicating with the brain at the cellular level are a reality. These complex microsystems arise to address neuroscience challenges of improving knowledge of the brain network. Ultimately these tools will catalyse new treatments for brain disorders and diseases such as Parkinson, Alzheimer, etc. Meanwhile, a new era of neural interfaces has emerged: optogenetics. An optogenetic tool (optrode) represents a device optimized for delivering light into a cell population genetically modified to show specific biological effects when exposed to light. They show cell-type neuromodulation with unique spatial resolution by delivering light on a cellular-scale with millisecond precision. This PhD project proposes the development of a 3D optrode microsystem capable of optical stimulation using micro Light Emitting Diodes (μ-LEDs) with fully integrated microelectronics.

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LTI PhD Students Tiago Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Study, Implementation and Optimization of Internal Heat regeneration on the LiquidPiston Engine PhD Advisors: Jorge Martins (UMinho), Francisco Brito (UMinho) The present research aims to develop different strategies for internally regenerate heat transfer and exhaust losses of a rotary engine to be applied in a Combined Heat and Power system. A LiquidPiston engine prototype will be used as basis of this research with the objective of producing 40% fuel to electric efficiency. The different strategies will be exploited by either CFD, 0D and 1D engine computational models and validated experimentally at LiquidPiston facilities.

Ana Lopez

2015 2015/2016

Nationality: Portuguese

Series Production using Additive Manufacturing PhD Advisors: LuĂsa Coutinho (IST-UL)

AndrĂŠ Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Operational Excellence Programinfluence on organizational culture change in technical industries PhD Advisors: Paulo Sampaio (UMinho), Eric Rebentisch (MIT)

Ashkan Akhavan Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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LTI PhD Students Filipe Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

PhD Advisors: Paulo Flores (UMinho), Jorge Ambrósio (IST-UL)

Jorge Luis Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Sensorial properties in materials selection and product development

Luís Carvalho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Mafalda Couto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Mário Vieira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

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LTI PhD Students Marta Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of a Clinical Decision Support System PhD Advisors: Susana Vieira (IST-UL) The PhD thesis work consists in applying computational intelligent techniques in the research field of Health Care. The objective is to define morbidity risk profiles in order to develop a clinical decision support system (CDSS) that identifies critical patients at an early stage, thereby optimizing the identification of clinical pathways. The CDSS will have the potential to support decision-making while improving the Hospital’s clinical management and the patient’s well-being.

Nuno Falcão e Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Oliver Fonseca Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Pedro Fraga Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Rita Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

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LTI PhD Students Rui Palhais Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior TĂŠcnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A new and sustainable value stream in the orthopaedic surgery planning and execution PhD Advisors: Daniel SimĂľes Lopes (INESC-ID) This research aims to create a new assessment model that would help orthopedic surgeons preparing their surgeries. The principle is simple, by creating a sustainable supply chain from CT SCAN to 3D Bone Models it is possible to simulate surgeries, reducing uncertainty, operation time, leading to a more efficient and standard process. However, the complexity is in the implementation process, where the difficulty of connecting all the systems and creating the necessary interfaces represents the main constrains.

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LTI Alumni Students Alexandre Ferreira da Silva

2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Invited Professor at University of Minho

PVC Smart-Foil based on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors PhD Advisors: José Higino Correia (UMinho), Paulo Mateus Mendes (UMinho)

Helena Fernandez Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: R&D Director on eHealth Area at GRADIANT, Spain

Remote vital signs monitoring based on wireless sensor networks PhD Advisors: José Higino Correia (UMinho), Ricardo Simões (Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave), José Afonso (UMinho)

Sérgio Tavares Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Senior Researcher at INEGI, Portugal; Co-Founder and CEO at Flicks Systems, Portugal

Design and Advanced Manufacturing of Aircraft Structures using Friction Stir Welding PhD Advisors: Paulo de Castro (FEUP), Pedro Vilaça (IST-UL), Thomas Eagar (MIT), Jorge dos Santos (HZG Germany), Marco Pachione (Airbus Germany)

Carla Pepe

2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Chief of Sub-system for Structures & Transmissions at Rolls-Royce, United kingdom

A Framework to Analyse and Improve Engineering Processes PhD Advisors: Elsa Henriques (IST-UL), Daniel Whitney (MIT)

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LTI Alumni Students Ivo Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Space System Engineer

Enhancing the conceptual design phase of complex engineering systems with a n integrated methodology and support tools PhD Advisors: Paulo Gil (IST-UL), Olivier de Weck (MIT)

Marco Leite Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Assistant Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Techno economic evaluation in materials selection for multiple parts under OEM-Tier relations. PhD Advisors: Arlindo Silva (IST-UL), Elsa Henriques (IST-UL)

Pedro Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Asst Professor at ULHT-Portugal; Invited Professor at ISEL, Portugal

Creativity in Product Development PhD Advisors: Arlindo Silva (IST-UL), Elsa Henriques (IST-UL)

Rui Carreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Coordenador do CTeSP - Produção Multimédia e Jogos Digitais - Instituto Universitário/ Politécnico da Maia

Designing the travel experience: identification and incorporation of passengers’ experience requirements in new bus body development PhD Advisors: Lia Patrício (FEUP), Renato Natal (FEUP), Chris Magee (MIT)

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LTI Alumni Students Cláudia Duarte

2015 2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Project Manager at Sonae, Portugal

Single line for assembly just in sequence multiple models PhD Advisors: Valério Carvalho (UMinho), Ana Póvoa (IST-UL), Stanley Gershwin (MIT)

Eduardo Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Mapping, Modelling and Improving the WEEE Treatment and Recovery: A Portuguese Case Study PhD Advisors: Paulo Ferrão (IST-UL)

Inês Ribeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher and Teaching Assistant at Instituto Superior Técnico

From Tooling Design to Tools Life Cycle Design: Shifting the Paradigm PhD Advisors: Paulo Peças (IST-UL), Elsa Henriques (IST-UL), António Pontes (UMinho), Rich Roth (MIT)

João Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Assistant Professor at ISEL-Lisbon, Portugal

Mobi-System: Towards an Information System to Support Sustainable Mobility with Electric Vehicle Integration PhD Advisors: João Afonso (UMinho), Alberto Silva (IST-UL)

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LTI Alumni Students José Gaspar Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: PhD Researcher at Center for Marine Technology and Ocean Engineering

A contribution to understand ill-defined requirements of in-car interfaces PhD Advisors: Mihail Fontul (IBER-OLEF), Elsa Henriques (IST-UL)

Lia Coelho de Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Invited Adjunct Professor at ESCE - IPVC

Dealing with uncertainty in supply chain design in the automotive industry PhD Advisors: Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP), João Claro (FEUP)

Maria Fernandez Nationality: Ecuadorian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Daily repair at Airbus Group

Fracture Characterization of Composite Bonded Joints Under Fatigue Loading PhD Advisors: Marcelo Moura (FEUP), Lucas Silva (FEUP)

Nuno Loureiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Assistant Professor/Course Coordinator at Instituto Superior de entre Douro e Vouga, Portugal

Sustainable automotive components for interior door trims PhD Advisors: José Esteves (FEUP), Júlio Viana (UMinho), Satyabratha Ghosh (UMinho)

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LTI Alumni Students Raquel Folgado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Heterogeneity and Variability on Human-Centered Assembly Systems PhD Advisors: Elsa Henriques (IST-UL), Paulo Peças (IST-UL)

Rui Rocha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Microlenses for Optical Microsystems PhD Advisors: Higino Correia (UMinho), João Carmo (UMinho)

Alexandra Sepúlveda

2015 2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of Minho/Bosch Car Multimédia Portugal, S.A.

Use of nanocomposites for flexible pressure sensors PhD Advisors: António Pontes (UMinho); Júlio Viana (UMinho); Luís Rocha (UMinho)

Ana Eduarda Sá Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Automatic quality control system based on artificial vision: transferring human knowledge into an automated inspection system

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LTI Alumni Students Cláudio Monteiro dos Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Post-doctoral researcher at INESC Technology and Science - Associate Laboratory coordinated by INESC Porto

Single Line for Assembly Just-In-Sequence Multiple Models PhD Advisors: Valério Carvalho (UM), Ana Póvoa (IST-UL), Stanley Gershwin (MIT)

Georgios Koronis Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post Doc researcher at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

A Green Composite as a Hood Part of a Buggy Vehicle PhD Advisors: Arlindo Silva (IST-UL)

Isa Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Professor at IPCA - Instituto Politecnico do Cavado e do Ave

Product development methodologies: the case of medical devices PhD Advisors: Luís Rocha (UMinho), João Tavares (FEUP)

João Pedro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of a Multifunction Wheel-Embedded Assembly for Electric Vehicles PhD Advisors: Luis Sousa (IST-UL), William Mitchell (MIT)

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LTI Alumni Students Jorge Ribeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Patent Examiner at European Patent Office

Algorithms and technologies for an automatic quality control system in inspection places: transferring human knowledge into an automated inspection system PhD Advisors: António Moreira (FEUP), Gil Lopes (UMinho), José Mendonça (INESC)

Michael Donauer Nationality: German Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Management Consultant at Kemény Boehme & Company, Germany

Identification of cost effective inspection strategies by means of tailored quality tools, cost modeling and simulation PhD Advisors: Américo Azevedo (FEUP), Paulo Peças (IST-UL), Richard Roth (MIT)

Nelson Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho

Advanced in mould assembling technologies for high precision polymer based optical components PhD Advisors: António Pontes (UMinho)

Samuel Moniz Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, Portugal

Scheduling of multipurpose batch plants - towards the development of a decision-making tool for the chemical-pharmaceutical industry PhD Advisors: Ana Póvoa (IST-UL), Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP)

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LTI Alumni Students Nationality: Italian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

2015

Deborah Perrotta de Andrade

Assessing the Performance of Electric Buses: a Study on the Impacts of Different Routes PhD Advisors: João Luiz Afonso (UMinho), Rosaldo Rossetti (FEUP)

Filipe Nascimento Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Laboratory technician at ISQ, Portugal

Smart Seat Design PhD Advisors: Francisco Pires (FEUP), Pedro Vilaça (IST)

Ioannis Malliaros Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Upstream Technologies Research Engineer at BIC

Hmi on sensitivity functions approach: Case of non-visual senses PhD Advisors: Mihail Fontul (IST); Elsa Henriques (IST)

João Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Requirements change in complex product development: understanding causes, managing uncertainty and planning for change PhD Advisors: Elsa Henriques (IST-UL), Arlindo Silva (IST-UL)

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LTI Alumni Students Muhammad Farooq Nationality: Pakistani Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology - USA

A Systems Engineering framework for quality improvement of manufacturing systems PhD Advisors: Henriqueta Nóvoa (FEUP), António Araujo (FEUP), Randolph Kirchain (MIT)

Nino Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Robotics Engineer at Dyson / UK

Golf ball picker robot: path generation in unstructured environments towards multiple targets PhD Advisors: Fernando Ribeiro (UMinho), Daniel Whitney (MIT), Jorge Lino (FEUP)

Nuno Guitian Oliveira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Inhouse Consulting at Merck Group, Germany

Towards High Strength 3D Chitosan-Based Implants for Biomedical Applications PhD Advisors: Alexandra Rodrigues (IST), Luis Reis (IST), Luis Pinto (Altakitin)

Ricardo Greenfield Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: PhD-Colaboration / Consultant at EurA Consult, AG

On the development of network commitment in intentional innovation networks: Towards a practical framework for network creation and sustained development PhD Advisors: António Lucas Soares (FEUP), Ana Cristina Barros (FEUP), Anne McCants (MIT)

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LTI Alumni Students Seyyed Sabet Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho Current position: Research engineer at Bosch and Univeristy of Minho, Portugal

Designing Next Generation Carwashing Machines with Rotary Brushes PhD Advisors: JoĂŁo Miguel NĂłbrega (IPC-I3n/UMinho), Ferrie van Hattum (Saxion University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands)

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TME EM Alumni Anselmo Gonçalves

Carla Alves

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Universidade do Minho

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Universidade do Minho Current position: R&D at plasdan group

Hernâni Matos Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Universidade do Minho Current position: Quality Engineering at DF - Elastomer Solutions Lda

Ricardo Raposo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Product Manager at Vodafone

2015 2009

Elizabete Pinho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Universidade do Minho Current position: R&D Manager at TMG Automotive

José Figueira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Purchasing Manager at ADIRA S.A.

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João Gonçalves Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Universidade do Minho Current position: Production Manager at Microsystems, UK

Rui Miranda Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Product Development Team Leader at Visteon Corporation

Joaquim Dias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Engineer at Autoeuropa

Miguel José Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

TME EM Alumni

Sara Fitas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Deborah Perrotta de Andrade Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

João Pereira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

Marco Lino Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Project Engineer at VdZ - Verein deutscher Zementwerk

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Vitor Martins Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Manager on Quality Assurance Measuring at Masterbuck and Cubing Center, Volkswagen Autoeuropa

João Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

2010

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Supply Chain Central Coordinator at Simoldes Plásticos

Ricardo Estevam

Jorge Ribeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Patent Examiner at European Patent Office

Miguel Vieira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal PhD Student (EDAM-LTI)

2011

Pedro Pinho

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2015 2012

Pedro Melo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto Current position: Production Manager at Aerosol Assembly, Colep

Renato Valente Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico/ Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Technical Manager at Colep

2015 2013

Pedro Fiolhais Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Engineering Supervisor at Recipharm, Portugal

2015 2014

João Reis

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Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: IInstituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Raquel Teixeira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto

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Transportation Systems In an increasingly globalized world, transportation is ever more important. People and goods travel around at a pace never seen before, bringing new challenges to the system. From policy and planning to infrastructure design and maintenance, at the international and local levels, and for the various modes – air, rail, road etc.—, optimizing time and feedstock consumption, while increasing efficiency and comfort, are essential to the modern society. The Doctoral Program in Transportation Systems (DPTS) was designed to respond to those needs. It prepares students for transportation-related careers in academia, including teaching and advanced research, as well as for professional practice careers in both the public and the private sectors. Upon completion of the program, students are expected to become intellectual leaders within their chosen fields and organizations. DPTS alumni are currently employed at universities and companies in Portugal and abroad, such as Brisa, São Paulo - Guarulhos Airport, the Singapore - MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Lisbon Municipality, or the Dublin City University in Ireland. Established in 2007, the DPTS has gained worldwide recognition, attracting highly qualified candidates from all around the globe. The program aims to prepare students to become leading actors in the transportation world by providing excellence and innovation in teaching and research. It guarantees a sound scientific education, covering both methodological approaches and institutional factors, required to understand the transportation enterprise as an intermodal integrated system. Students and faculty carry out cutting-edge research for the development of a world-class transportation system for passengers and freight for Portugal, that can serve as a model for the rest of Europe. The program works closely with industrial, government, and laboratory collaborators that provide added value through research and teaching involvement. The curriculum offers courses in all transport systems topics. It is tailor-made for each candidate, as only two courses out of six are mandatory: Research Methodologies and Thesis Project in Transport Systems. Candidates then choose at least two optional courses between the nine offered in the scope of the program – the remaining ones may be chosen among any other doctoral courses offered in the participating schools or in any schools with which doctoral collaboration agreements were established. Research can be developed in the fields of air, railway or road infrastructure and operation, land-use and transport systems, innovative urban transport modes and services, urban mobility and accessibility, intelligent transport ssytems, traveler information and transport safety systems.

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Affiliated Institutions Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (FEUP) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCTUC) Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Industrial Affiliates REFER, CP and Metro (rail); ANA, TAP and SATA (air); EP, BRISA and other concessionaires, Carris (road); Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (road/parking); USA Rail Administration, RAVE (rail/planning); Mobiag and Zipcar

Faculty PhD Director and Coordinator @IST: Luís Picado Santos PhD Director @MIT: Christopher Zegras PhD Coordinator @FEUP: Jorge Pinho de Sousa PhD Coordinator @FCTUC: António Pais Antunes

Faculty involved in teaching, PhD supervision or joint research projects Alexander Chlan (IST) Álvaro Costa (FEUP) Álvaro Seco (FCTUC) Amedeo Odoni (MIT) António Antunes (FCTUC) António Couto (FEUP) Assaf Biderman (MIT) Carlo Ratti (MIT) Carlos Lisboa Bento (FCTUC) Carlos Rodrigues (FEUP) Carolina Osorio (MIT) Chris Caplice (MIT) Christopher Zegras (MIT) Cynthia Barnhart (MIT) Daniele Veneziano (MIT) Edgar Blanco (MIT) Francisco Câmara Pereira (FCTUC) Gonçalo Correia (FCTUC) Herbert Einstein (MIT) Isabel Lima (FCTUC)

Jinhua Zhao (MIT) João Abreu (IST) João Claro (FEUP) João Lima (FCTUC) João Luís Soares (FCTUC) João Matos (IST) John Akula (MIT) John Hansman (MIT) Jorge Freire de Sousa (FEUP) Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP) José Antunes Ferreira (IST) José Neves (IST) José Pedro Tavares (FEUP) José Viegas (IST) Joseph Ferreira (MIT) Joseph Sussman (MIT) Judy Layzer (MIT) Kent Larson (MIT) Luís Cruz (FCTUC) Luís Martinez (IST)

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Luís Picado Santos (IST) Luís Simões da Silva (FCTUC) Manuel Gameiro da Silva (FCTUC) Maria Conceição Cunha (FCTUC) Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT) Nancy Leveson (MIT) Nigel Wilson (MIT) Patrícia Ferreira (IST) Paulo Coelho (FCTUC) Paulo Teixeira (IST) Pedro Bizarro (FCTUC) Penousal Machado (FCTUC)

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Raimundo Delgado (FEUP) Richard de Neufville (MIT) Rosário Macário (IST) Rui Calçada (FEUP) Rui Oliveira (IST) Sara Ferreira [FEUP] Sílvia Shrubsall (IST) Steven Barrett (MIT) Teresa Galvão (FEUP) Tiago Farias (IST) Vasco Reis (IST) William Mitchell (MIT)

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How has MPP contributed to your career development? The benefits of the program became gradually more obvious. This PhD gave me the possibility to think about problems in a more structured way, allowing the contact to key stakeholders and industry and also improving my skills in the transportation field. Diana Silva Leal, PhD

MPP gave me the opportunity to stay at the edge of research with access to the best resources and professors. The systems approach for the academic offering has been invaluable for my professional performance and development. The program gave me the freedom to pave my own path while developing my research and explore a topic that I was interested in. Edgar Perez, PhD

MPP was a major milestone in my career development. Not only has it significantly broadened my technical skills and working methods as it also allowed extending my professional contact network. Gonรงalo Caiado, PhD

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Through the lectures attended, MPP gave me a broader view on topics related to transportation engineering. Besides, the possibility to meet students belonging to different universities extended my professional network. MPP contributed to my career development by opening the doors to a multitude of opportunities to present my research in the right context and to the right people. Giullio Piccinini, PhD

Provided me tools to enhance professional performance that granted me peer recognition. Since my graduation, I started to perform wider functions in the company, and now I am now responsible for the planning of the railway service of CP. João Fialho, MSc

MPP has been a very important element for my development. First, I had the change of being embedded on a world-class research center where I met extraordinaire colleagues and friends. Secondly, the research was applied to real cases, which make it closer to what is expected from us on a corporate environment. Last but not the least, the supervisor support was unique combining a mix of experiences and knowledge that were essential for my professional and personal development. João Pita, PhD

I believe the combination of transport engineering, management, and policy of CTIS program provides a wide comprehension of transport infrastructure development. I think this perspective helped me follow a more generalist career, being able to “speak different languages”. In fact, after graduation I started working in a consultancy company focused on transportation projects and I currently work at an Investor Relations department of a large transportation infrastructure group in Brazil. Both positions require a professional with several different skills - corporate finance, management, communication, legal, and corporate governance and also technical knowhow in transportation and infrastructure. Júlia Orrico, MSc

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The opportunity to learn from some of the best scholars in transportation engineering from MIT as well as the consortium of universities in Portugal has immensely helped in broadening my horizons and being ever-more inspired to pursue cutting edge research in the field of transportation. The multi-cultural nature of the program also gave me valuable insights into working in an international team with colleagues from different backgrounds, who brought in various perspectives into solving the problem at hand. I am still in touch with some of my colleagues and professors and I owe MPP for this opportunity. Nikhil Menon, MSc

Refocused my career objectives towards a socioeconomic and institutional vision of transport infrastructures. It did so by introducing me not only to outstanding faculty and lectures but also enthusiastic new colleagues and friends. SĂŠrgio Domingues, MSc

A more ample idea that complex systems, and sustainable ones at that, are not meant to serve the people and society in existence, merely at the time of conception. Far from it, they should be designed to also serve the people and societies that are yet to come. Silvia Soares, MSc

The MIT Portugal Program provides great opportunities to be involved into cutting-edge research project both in Portugal and at MIT. Working with my supervisors, we presented our works in a number of international conferences and published a series of papers in SCI/SSCI journals. Yu Shen, PhD

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DPTS PhD Students Rafaela Arriaga

2015 2007/2008

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Transport needs for an ageing society: long-term drivers and generational effect. PhD Advisors: José Viegas (IST-UL), Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT) In an Age-Friendly Mobility (AFM), this study intends to develop a disaggregate travel behavior model which directly predicts 65+ years of age traveler’s modal switching behavior. Life changing mobility dynamics are captured by means of a life-time retrospective survey in the light of the three main societal trends for this century: unprecedented ageing, fast urbanization and digitalization of society.

Ana Galelo

2015 2008/2009

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Measuring Transit Oriented Development Outcomes – An Application to Lisbon PhD Advisors: Anabela Ribeiro (FCTUC), Luís Martinez (ITForum)

Maria de Fátima Teles Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Maria Spandou Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Institutional design as performance factor: a comparative institutional analysis of two metropolitan public transport systems PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL) Urban public transport systems have significant influence on everyday life and activities of modern cities, with the institutional component playing a crucial role. This PhD dissertation contributes to this academic discussion by (i) delving into the knowledge base on institutional design theory and performance management, (ii) mapping, understanding and assessing the decision-making processes of metropolitan public transport policy, planning and operations level, as well as the interrelations among relevant stakeholders, and (iii) identifying, analyzing and evaluating the institutional design parameters that constitute determinants of good institutional, as well as overall performance. The analysis is based on an interdisciplinary and mixed methodological framework, namely a combination of qualitative and quantitative analysis, primarily based on comparative case study research.

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DPTS PhD Students Pedro Domingos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Modelação do Comportamento de Pavimentos Rodoviários Flexíveis Através de Métodos Incrementais PhD Advisors: Maria Lurdes Antunes (LNEC), José Manuel Coelho das Neves (IST)

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

2009/2010

Camila Garcia

Strategic Evaluation of Multimodal Networks in Urban Mobility Systems: Conciliation of the Use rand Service Providers Perspectives PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL), Filipe Loureito (UFC)

Carlos Marques Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Emerging energy and technology patterns in transportation systems and the Kondratieff waves theory PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL)

Francisco Furtado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Services and Infrastructure Freight Railway Network Analysis: Improving Services Productivity PhD Advisors: José Viegas (IST-UL), Chris Caplice (MIT)

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DPTS PhD Students Gonçalo Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

One way carsharing systems: real time optimization of staff movements and operations PhD Advisors: Gonçalo Correia (TU Delft), José Viegas (ITF OECD) Development and testing of a real time methodology for one-way carsharing systems, that is able to continuously update staff tasks to be adapted to the current system status and short-term demand forecasts, producing optimized staff movements and operations.

Mohammad Hajizamani Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

An Advanced Technological In-Vehicle System Aiming to Reduce the Hazardous Driving Actions PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL) Driver’s error is the main cause of accidents and casualties in road transportation. As working in road safety area, this project aims to design an in-vehicle intelligent surveillance and control system (system “X”) which can communicate with the driver, vehicle and environment. This system will warn, help and potentially control the driver to drive in a stable and safe condition. This procedure will lead to less accident and casualties. A software modeling will be used to calibrate the system “X” parameters which could be used for different drivers in different driving conditions to decrease the chance of having accidents. This system will collect the information from different sources and after processing the information and analyzing the associated risk to the driver behavior, different level of actions will be made.

2015 2010/2011

António Lobo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Diego Giménez Nationality: Argentinian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

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DPTS PhD Students Dinis Gardete Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Contribuição para o Estabelecimento duma Mistura Betuminosa Adequada para o Ciclo de Vida Através da Definição duma Parametrização Eficiente da PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL), Silvino Capitão (ISEC)

Duarte Correia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Drivers and Boundaries of Integration for Shipping Lines and Terminal Operators and Its Effects on Global Supply Chains PhD Advisors: José Manuel Viegas (IST-UL)

Farzam Salimi Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

An Integrated Framework for Parking Pricing and Modeling PhD Advisors: Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP), António Pais Antunes (FCTUC) In recent years studies on parking management and parking pricing have grown up fast to deal with congestion problems, and at the same time researchers became more interested in parking pricing instead of road pricing. The main reason for this interest is that parking pricing is in general less costly than road pricing. To find a proper framework for this problem knowing the elements of this problem is critical. We are trying to clear the different aspects of the parking pricing problem. Proposing a comprehensive model that connects the 4-step travel demand modeling to the optimization model is the next step to have a broader framework in this study. The goal of optimization model will be the optimizing of the net cost revenue to find a practical solution for the costly structure of off-street parking buildings.

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DPTS PhD Students Heather Jones Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Transport Infrastructure Project Evaluation: Transforming CBA to include a life cycle perspective PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL), Tiago Domingos (IST-UL) Major transportation infrastructure projects are often megaprojects that have been plagued by cost and schedules overruns and are subsequently loudly criticized. This focus along with the magnitude of the investments creates a need to carefully assess the costs and benefits of infrastructure projects. Most countries and international organizations have selected CBA as the evaluation tool to be used, therefore it is important that CBA be as complete and transparent as possible and accurately indicate the most efficient investment. There is a distinct lack of looking at CBA from a life cycle perspective. In order to avoid potentially misleading results, the investment must be examined over the entire life of the project. The environmental impacts are only considered during the operation phase and little attention is paid to how the project is accounted for at the end of its life. The aim of this research is to account for the environmental impacts for the entire life cycle of the project and to better reflect the value of the project at the end of its life. Transforming CBA to include a life cycle perspective will be accomplished by performing, monetizing and including a life cycle assessment (LCA) into the CBA and exploring and recommending methods for value of the investment at the end of its lifetime (residual value). To determine the impact of these advancements on policy and decision making, the case study of the Lisbon to Porto HSR link is used. The findings of this research have real implications on policy and decision making and the methodologies used to determine the economic impact of major infrastructure investment projects. The inclusion of LCA into CBA provides a more inclusive life cycle perspective of the environmental impacts arising from an infrastructure investment project. Using a component method to calculate residual value provides a more complete and transparent accounting of the project and furthers the goal of life cycle perspective. By utilizing the recommended advancements, the life cycle costs and benefits can be quantified and advocate that the HSR link should have been constructed.

Luis Caetano Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Strategic model to optimize railway track maintenance and renewal operations PhD Advisors: Paulo Teixeira (IST-UL) The main focus of this research is on the development of new methodologies that consider robust railway track degradation models, calibrated and validated with historical data from inspections in the Portuguese railway network, to support railway track maintenance and renewal decisions. Furthermore, decision support methods such as life-cycle costs will be used to cut expenditures on railway track maintenance and renewal works and at the same time guarantee a reliable and available infrastructure. A decision support system that integrates these features will be a useful tool for track managers and engineers to analyze the railway track condition and decide, with more accuracy, when maintenance is necessary and when is the best time to replace railway track components.

Luís Freire Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Congestion Charging Business Model: A Scientific Approach PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL)

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DPTS PhD Students Paulo Martins Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Modelação de Políticas Integradas para a Redução do Congestionamento Rodoviário Através do Conceito de PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL)

Aleksandr Prodan

2011/2012

Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Railway Infrastructure Charges in International Railway Corridors PhD Advisors: Paulo F. Teixeira (IST-UL), Joseph Sussman (MIT) The railway reform in Europe separated infrastructure management from train operations. This thesis studies the interface between train operators and infrastructure managers by evaluating rail infrastructure charges in Europe and proposing optimization strategies for increasing international traffic.

Bahareh Tavallaee Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A Framework for Sustainable Pavements Implementation Applied to Portuguese Conditions PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL), José Manuel Coelho das Neves (IST-UL) Proposing a comprehensive framework (e.g. Mechanistic Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) and its software DARWin ME) for sustainable pavement implementation applied to Portuguese conditions that includes data preparation to locally calibrate the MEPDG procedure and adopting a proper behavior model for Portuguese conditions which may result in delivering pavement catalogue for Portuguese conditions and developing implementation guidelines for the future adoption of DARWin-ME in Portugal.

Carlos Gaivoto Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Aiming at Promoting Sustainable Urban Public Transport Planning. Assessing the Role of Hybrid Public Transport Modes PhD Advisors: Luís Martinez (IST-UL), Filipe Moura (IST-UL)

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DPTS PhD Students Chandan Kancharla Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Optimal design and real-time regulation of traffic signls PhD Advisors: Álvaro Seco (FCTUC), Ana Bastos Silva (FCTUC)

Dimitrios Papaioannou Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A comprehensive quality indicator for public transport systems evaluation PhD Advisors: Luis Miguel Martinez (IST-UL) This research deals with quality in public transport (PT) systems. The goal is to examine the quality of various fields in PT and understand their effect on ridership and mode choice. However the main focus of this work is PT system layout and service design. A survey on urban mobility and PT satisfaction has been designed and launched. The collected data will be used in a series of structural equation models that will attempt to model the connection between different elements of PT and perceived quality. The end goal of this research is the development of a global indicator that will be able to rate and rank PT systems’ quality and measure the change in ridership when improving or downgrading a specific element.

Ines Frade Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Bike-sharing Systems Design PhD Advisors: Anabela Ribeiro (FEUP), Christopher Zegras (MIT) Strategic design of public bicycle sharing systems concerning the definition of bike-sharing demand, the location of public bicycle stations and the combination of both models to design a bike-sharing system in coordination with public transport. Development of a methodology to help the decision-making of transportation planners, policymakers and investors in the implementation of bike sharing systems.

João Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Life-cycle Cost Analysis System for Pavement Management PhD Advisors: Adelino Correia (FCTUC)

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DPTS PhD Students Maria Fontes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Melissa Gama Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Sebastian Ebert Nationality: German Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Managerial Decisions and Performance in European Urban Public Transport – a comparative analysis PhD Advisors: Álvaro Fernando de Oliveira Costa (FEUP) The defined work plan for the 3rd year of the doctoral project (PhD program on Transportation Systems) at FEUP (Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto) has been finished successfully. Among other activities, long-term production data from public transport companies has been collected and analyzed based on their annual economic reports. This involved a considerably large set of companies. A detailed comparison between the cases of Dresden and Porto has already been performed, using a DEA approach (conference paper at EWGT2014). More recently the student started modeling gathered data from Hochbahn Hamburg by Regression Analysis. The research focused on decision analysis to develop a broad framework to for the general decision-making processes in public transport management.

Sofia Kalakou Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Flexibility of airport passenger buildings: a pedestrian and technology-oriented approach PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL) This research project aims to explore the flexibility of airport passenger buildings. The provision of high Level of Service (LOS) is guaranteed while estimating adequately space configuration and minimizing the corresponding full costs involved. Space analysis, pedestrian planning, passenger behavior, airport performance evaluation, simulation modeling and flexibility analysis are the key scientific areas. Future uncertainty and the effect of new technologies are also taken into account. The developed methodology is applied at Lisbon Portela airport.

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DPTS PhD Students Cristina Vilarinho

2015 2012/2013

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Intelligent Traffic Signal Control PhD Advisors: Jose Pedro Tavares (FEUP), Rosaldo Rossetti (FEUP) The proposed research aims to develop a real-time traffic control at isolated intersections. The control strategies for traffic signals are a highimportance topic due to impacts on economy, environment and society, affecting people and freight. Traffic signal plans optimization has been the main topic of focus of the research community. In addition to the definition of the best traffic plan at the design phase, it is important to add the target of maintaining the system optimized during the operation phase. In this way our research target is to develop an approach for controlling traffic signals that rely on a flexibility and maximal level of freedom in control where the system is updated frequently to match current traffic demand taking into account different traffic users.

David Antunes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Integrated airline schedule recovery PhD Advisors: António Pais Antunes (FCTUC), Vikrant Vaze (Dartmouth College), Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)

Joana Silva Carreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Airline Fleet Composition: Analysis and Planning PhD Advisors: António Pais Antunes (FCTUC), Amadeo R. Odoni (MIT), Morton O’Kelly (Ohio State University) This research work focus on airline fleet composition. The two main objectives are: 1) the analysis of how the fleet of airlines has changed throughout time; 2) the development of decision support models/tools for helping airlines at making better informed decisions about the configuration of their fleet.

João Crucho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

NANOASPHALT - Use of nanomaterials to improve the surface properties and the durability of road pavement wearing courses PhD Advisors: José Neves (IST-UL), Silvino Capitão (ISEC)

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DPTS PhD Students Jóni Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Understanding and predicting the impact of events on urban mobility PhD Advisors: Gonçalo Correia (FCTUC), Francisco Camara Pereira (FCTUC) Ever since the beginning of this century, urban flows and events have been projected online at an increasing rate. These digital footprints are progressively available and represent the connection between the physical and the digital part of the city. We intend to take advantage this huge amount of data spread all across the internet (to the city of Lisbon). We want to understand the impact that events have in a city and then we plan to build models that will predict their impact on the mobility systems. These models will after be used to empower the transportation planners and policy makers with precise information about what will be likely to happen in the next events of the city. This research topic has not been explored much in the past, so there is an opportunity to produce a significant impact on the transportation research state of the art through the completion of this thesis.

Liliana Magalhães Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

A decision support tool for flexible airport passenger terminals PhD Advisors: Vasco Reis (IST-UL), Rosário Macário (IST-UL) This study is about flexible airport development. It focuses on how to improve and adapt the development process of an airport terminal, in order to cope with air transport uncertainty and dynamism. The goal is to study the airport terminal flexibility by analysing its processes for passenger and luggage. The approach in this study is to analyse the terminal processes for passengers and luggage and herein, apply flexible options. The goal is to evaluate which flexible options produces more value for money. To achieve that, a hybrid simulation model based on discrete-events and agentbased is being used to capture the costs and benefits generated by introduction of flexible options on the processes.

Marco Amorim Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

EMS Network Optimization Models with Different Levels of Uncertainty PhD Advisors: António Couto (FEUP), Sara Ferreira (FEUP) The main objective of this research is to measure the social impact of improving the EMR by optimizing the system planning: is a more efficient system also more effective? The research will go through three phases on how to make the system more effective: in the long term (macro-management), in the mid-term (dynamic management), and in the short term (dynamic micro-management).The study will comprise all types of EMR calls and the social impact will focus on the road accident victims.

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DPTS PhD Students Marcos Schlickmann Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Incorporating land-use impacts on BRT and LRT decision making PhD Advisors: Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP), Luis Martínez (IST-UL) When governments face the need of improving a transit system they normally have to choose between a set of technological and operational alternatives (e.g., Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), Light Rail Transit (LRT)). In this context, to help correctly evaluate each transport option and its impacts a decision support tool should be used, based for example in a Cost Benefit Analysis or Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis. The objectives of this research are: • To identify, understand and measure the impacts of BRT and LRT systems on accessibility, land uses, land values and densities. • To consider those impacts on decision making.

Margarida Rosado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Olga Petrik Nationality: Russian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Uncertainty and risk analysis in transportation demand modeling PhD Advisors: Joao de Abreu e Silva (IST-UL), Filipe Moura (IST-UL) The study aims at classifying uncertainty present in each component of a demand forecast model. It aims to identify the main contributors to the outcome uncertainty and quantify the uncertainty associated with them, and, finally, determine its impact in risk taking for decision-making. The research methodology is applied to a case study, the High-Speed Railway (HSR) project in Portugal. The study focuses on improving the quality of demand modeling practice.

Rodrigo Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

A Model for the Strategic Planning of Airline Networks: Application to European-Far East Markets PhD Advisors: António Pais Antunes (FCTUC), Nicole Adler Hebrew (University of Jerusalem) This research aims to develop a strategic decision-support tool that by explaining how major airlines dynamically interact with each other and how individual decisions arising from such interactions affect choices made by passenger demand, can help airline managers to understand the behavior of markets under different competitive environments then allowing them to perform various types of “what-if” scenarios with the imperial goal of maximizing network profitability.

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DPTS PhD Students Ana Vaz

2013/2014

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Strategic and Operational Issues of Military Fuel Logistics - Application to Angola PhD Advisors: António Pais Antunes (FCTUC)

António Nunes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

A user collaboration model for urban passenger transport PhD Advisors: Teresa Galvão Dias (FEUP), João Falcão e Cunha (FEUP) This project is concerned with the development and evaluation of a model of collaboration between users of an urban passenger transport system. This model explores an opportunity created by the widespread adoption of advanced personal mobile devices with ubiquitous access to wireless communication networks, to harness information that is distributed throughout urban passenger transport systems. Its ultimate goal is to facilitate collaboration between users of those systems, using personal mobile devices and sensor-based data to ease their journeys.

Carlos Fernandes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

From Shadow Toll to Real Toll - was it worth it? PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL)

Francisco Duarte Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Pavement energy harvesting system to convert vehicles kinetic energy into electricity PhD Advisors: Adelino Ferreira (FCTUC) The increased mobilization of human being to cities and the adoption of new technologies has led to a great increase in the consumption of planet resources, with a special emphasis for electricity. In the current paradigm, electricity production is done in large power plants, outside the cities, consuming non-renewable resources and inducing energy losses from the production to the final consumption. This paradigm must be changed, with the production being made from renewable resources, decentralized, near to where the energy is consumed, and preferably when energy is needed. To meet the challenges stated before, this research project consists of developing a system to capture the energy released from vehicles to the road pavement and transform it into electrical energy, with the capacity to store it, in order to use it when necessary.

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DPTS PhD Students Joana Cavadas Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Integrated Transit-Parking Planning PhD Advisors: António Pais Antunes (FCTUC), Nikolas Geroliminis (EPF Lausanne), Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)

Joana Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL)

Joana Dourado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Microsimulation Modelling for Road Safety Assesment PhD Advisors: Ana Bastos Silva (FCTUC), Álvaro Maia Seco (FCTUC)

Luísa Fortes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Marcos Correia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: João de Abreu e Silva (IST-UL)

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DPTS PhD Students Mariana dos Prazeres Monteiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL)

Marisa Pedro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Uncertainty and Risk in Transportation Megaprojects PhD Advisors: João Abreu e Silva (IST-UL), Rui Carvalho Oliveira (IST-UL) The research aims to be a contribution for expanding knowledge on risk and uncertainty in transportation megaprojects. It aims to produce a clear understanding of why transportation megaprojects are often delivered beyond schedule, costing more than predicted and with traffic demands below forecasts. The research outcomes can be followed by several experts, supporting decision making and improving project performances.

Marta Faria Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Assessing the influences between driving environment and driving performance PhD Advisors: Tiago Farias (IST-UL), Patrícia Baptista (IST-UL) This research work main objective is to understand how vehicle’s fuel consumption, emissions and safety are influenced by variables such as vehicle characteristics (age, type, etc.), driver characteristics, road infrastructure, meteorological conditions and traffic volumes. To fulfill the proposed objectives, ICT devices will be used to build a database of 1 Hz geo-referenced real-world driving data, which will be used to establish correlations between driving variables, infrastructure and local environment characteristics.

Marta Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Enhancing Public Transport Service Through Mobile Integrated Service PhD Advisors: João Falcão e Cunha (FEUP), Teresa Galvão (FEUP) The main aim of this research project is to enhance public transport systems by introducing a holistic view of the whole system they are embedded in. By broadening the design space further than the existing boundaries of the transport systems it is possible to find innovative ways to cocreate value. Beyond this cross-functional perspective it is also an objective of this research introduce new channels in the service delivery process such as mobile phones. Through this channels service providers may interact with the customers even on the move. After identifying the main actors of the traveller value constellation, their roles and relationships will be reconfigured in order to develop integrated service offerings that enhance costumer experience.

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DPTS PhD Students Matheus Oliveira Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Infrastructure Investment Policy: How have financing schemes been misleading the investment decision in the transport sector? PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL), Romulo Orrico Filho (COPPE-UFRJ) Considering the evidences of the financial crisis effect on the transport investment at the southern European countries, the research to be developed in the thesis is oriented to produce an analytical model capable of describing the effect of those financial incentives at different political context. In methodological terms, the research plan proposes the realization of two complementary procedures: A top down approach to outline countries’ financial dependency profiles using a decomposition method for macroeconomic aggregates; and a bottom up approach to the finance/funding structure at cases of project finance in a national level. From the construction of those profiles, the proposed thesis is expected to produce and analyze decision models for policy investment at critical economic.

Mohammad Manshadian Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Planning of Personal rapid Transit system PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL) Personal rapid transit system (PRT) that defines as an emission-free mode with fully automated and driverless vehicles on a system of specially built, and elevated guide ways. This PRT system is considered to be a solution to many worldwide and environmental issues related to the car dependency. Therefore, it is selected to study in this research because of innovative, sustainable, accessible, flexible, safe and electrically driven and produces zero local emission. As a result, the main aim of this research is to highlight sustainable planning of PRT system in Lisbon, which is caused to decrease car dependency. Also, the outcomes lead to the modification of sufficient information for recommendation to related stakeholders to implement integrated PRT system with other modes in urban areas for its feasibility, sustainability and reliability before its transfer to other cities.

Pedro Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Development of degradation models to predict maintenance needs related to local defects of railway track geometry PhD Advisors: Paulo Teixeira (IST-UL), Patrícia Ferreira (IST-UL) This dissertation focuses on the modeling of both track geometry degradation and restauration processes resorting to inspection data from several lines of the Portuguese rail network. The impacts of track geometry condition and railway infrastructure features on the emergence and evolution patterns of local defects of track geometry are to be explored. Also the efficiency of tamping operations and their effects on the degradation rates estimated for different parameters of track geometry are to be assessed. At least, degradation prediction models for local defects of track geometry are to be developed and further integrated into the maintenance and renewal decision support tool currently used by the national infrastructure manager in order to contribute towards a more accurate prediction of preventive maintenance needs related to track geometry in the future.

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DPTS PhD Students Amir Sangi

2014/2015

Nationality: Pakistani Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Eco-efficiency of Urban Transport PhD Advisors: Oxana Tchepel (FCTUC) Research Summary In this research the concept of Transport Eco-efficiency (TE) will be applied to transportation, and it is argued that the concept of TE can overcome some of the limitations of other concepts, while measuring critical impacts of transportation systems. The main objective of the present research is to develop a consistent approach and modeling framework to evaluate eco-efficiency of urban transport in order to support decision making with an overview of current practices and policies in the evaluation of the consequences of urban traffic.

Bernardo Garcia Nationality: Portuguese and Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Transit maps and travel choices: the influence of the design of transit maps on passenger mode and route choices PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL) Transit maps are considered one of the most traditional means of providing information to users. Their main purpose is to represent the public transportation network in order to allow users to navigate through it. Although considered the main trip planning media and the most popular amongst users, the differences between their designs act as a barrier for an efficient reading. Such differences may affect passenger travel decisions on the grounds of route and mode choices. In this way, the objectives of this research are to analyze the influence of transit map design on passenger mode and route choices, and to propose guidelines for the development and use of multimodal transit maps.

Conceição Filipe de Magalhães Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL)

Duarte Amorim da Cunha Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Implementation and evaluation of compensatory security measures in small and medium sized airports PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL), Vasco Reis (IST-UL)

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DPTS PhD Students Duarte Lopes da Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Otimização de Marchas Ferroviárias PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL)

Henrique Cordeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Kapila Chissama Nationality: Angolan Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL)

Luis Filipe Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL) My research aims at exploring the possible uses of crowdsourcing techniques and of the concept of “users as sensors” to feed information for the management of the urban mobility system and into the travel information systems.

Nuno Gregório Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Speed Management in Single Carriageway Roads PhD Advisors: Álvaro Seco (FCTUC), Ana Bastos Silva (FCTUC)

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DPTS PhD Students Nuno Ribeiro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Airport Capacity Management - Towards a Slot Allocation Modelling Approach Fully Compliant with IATA Rules PhD Advisors: António Pais Antunes (FCTUC), Alexandre Jacquillat (MIT), Amedeo Odoni (MIT), João Pita (FCTUC) Research Summary The slot allocation process is a demand management mechanism used by airports that aims to prevent the occurrence of airport congestion in the short term. This is a strategic process whereby slot coordinators produce small changes in the schedules requested by airlines in order to reduce the number of flights scheduled at peak hours by distributing them more evenly over the day. This process is mainly driven by the IATA guidelines, which establish a set of priorities and rules that must be followed by slot coordinators. Although being today widely used worldwide, the slot allocation process is not still applied very efficiently, and very limited support tools are available. Accordingly, the main goal of this research project is to develop a modelling approach fully compliant with IATA rules, aiming to assist slot coordinators making decisions during the slot allocation process.

Ricardo Félix Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Rosa Félix Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Urban Cycling and cycling networks: leapfrogging away from incipient networks and modal shares PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL) A methodology to choose how the investments on cycling infrastructures should be implemented and how to prioritize them, in order to achieve a desirable bicycle modal share within a certain time period in mid-sized cities, where people are starting to cycle for commuting.

Rui Pedrosa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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DPTS PhD Students Soraya Vianna Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Teresa Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Mobility Tools for an Ageing Society PhD Advisors: Jorge Sousa (FEUP), Rosário Macário (IST-UL) The ageing of the population is one of the most significant demographic phenomenons in Europe, and Portugal is no exception. As out of home mobility and travel are essential parts of contemporary life, enabling older people to access commodities and facilities, to engage in social relations and to get a feeling of proximity and inclusion is critical to guarantee they do not become socially excluded. In this context, the goal of the project is to create innovative tools that promote suitable, safe, convenient, attractive and dignified elderly-friendly transportation systems, considering different socio-economic, demographic, geographic and financial contexts.

Thiago Marques da Silva Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Semantic Integration of Urban Mobility Data through Ontologies for Supporting Visualization PhD Advisors: Teresa Galvão (FEUP), José Borges (FEUP) Our research proposes a new approach for visualizing urban mobility data. In contrast with related studies in transportation, our approach focus on bringing semantics to data by developing an ontology for data integration and the development of semantically rich visualizations. We aim to reduce the limitations of data heterogeneity and the technical complexity that prevents many transportation decision makers from using visualization tools in practice, especially on regards to selecting an adequate visualization technique for a given dataset.

Tiago Dionísio Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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DPTS PhD Students Ana Martins

2015/2016

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Ana Vitorino Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Daliana Santos Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Public Transport Using Optimization Models: Applications to the City and the Metropolitan Region of Natal/RN PhD Advisors: António Antunes (FCTUC) The proposed PhD project wants to contribute to the enhancement of public transport planning processes. The methodology will be based on a set of optimization models that allow to determine the supply levels and fares that minimize the operating deficits of a public transport company (or maximize its profits), while guaranteeing given minimum supply levels for social reasons. The models will properly account for the interaction between supply and demand, as well as for the competition between public transport and private transport (through logit models), and will be designed for application to large cities (with population above 500,000) or metropolitan areas where several public transport modes coexist.

Erwin Bravo Nationality: Ecuadorian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Francisco Antunes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

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DPTS PhD Students Gustavo de Andrade Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Hudson Pereira Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Inês do Ó Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Joana Hora Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Performance Improvement of Urban Transportation Systems, focusing on Robustness of Bus Services PhD Advisors: Ana Camanho (FEUP), Teresa Galvão Dias (FEUP)

José Correia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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DPTS PhD Students Lígia Conceição Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

Luís Simões Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Paulo Cambra Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

(urban) Space, the Last Frontier PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL)

Rita Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Rita Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

A Multi-Objective Optimization Approach for Road Asset Management PhD Advisors: Adelino Ferreira (FCTUC) The main objective of this research project is the development of a multi-objective optimization approach for pavement management considering agency costs, user costs (including accident costs), residual value of pavements and pollutant emissions to define the maintenance and rehabilitation interventions during the planning period. The objective of the analysis can be any combination between the costs related with the infrastructure, the users and the environment. This involves also the implementation of a new PMS considering quality, comfort, safety and environment. The new PMS will be based on an optimisation model and will use pavement surface data from surveys, pavement performance prediction models, accident prediction models, and environmental prediction models.

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DPTS PhD Students Samuel Matias Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Modelling railway slab track towards enhanced dynamic performance, reduced track deterioration and risk vulnerability PhD Advisors: Patrícia Ferreira (IST-UL) The increase in velocity and daily circulation of high-speed services results in an extra need for maintenance in the ballasted track which exhibits a pronounced degradation, therefore motivating the investigation of alternative slab track solutions. The main scope of this doctoral research is to predict the structural behaviour for slab track design through the development of a powerful numerical tool. This tool would be capable of performing static and dynamic simulations, achieving not only instantaneous responses of the track, as displacements and stresses, but also accelerations due to the effects of train loading, temperature and natural hazards. The aforementioned tool would else predicts long-term responses of the track over million gross ton cycles, as irreversible subgrade deformations, fatigue behaviour of the various materials and cracking phenomena on the concrete slab.

Sara Zorro Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Impact of passengers with reduced mobility on airport and airlines operations. PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL), Jorge Reis Silva (Universidade da Beira Interior)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Ana Serpa de Vasconcelos

2015 2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Post-Doc at Instituto Superior Técnico

Urban Accessibility: Estimation of Internal and External Environmental Costs PhD Advisors: Tiago Farias (IST-UL)

José Feiteira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Misturas betuminosas incorporando por via seca borracha de pneus usados : caracterização e validação tecnológica PhD Advisors: Luis de Picado Santos (IST-UL)

Miguel Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Optimization Models for the Expansion of Airport Networks

Alda Metrass-Mendes

2015 2012

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Research Associate at The Icelandic Tourism Research Centre/University of Akureyri, Iceland

Air transportation design for effective and efficient service to small remote communities: Policy options under regulatory reform PhD Advisors: Álvaro Costa (FEUP), Richard de Neufville (MIT)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Diana Carvalho e Ferreira

2011

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Dublin City University Ireland

Fighting Cruising for Parking through Online Parking Space Reservations PhD Advisors: João de Abreu e Silva (IST-UL)

Jorge Lopes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Information Management Officer at Brisa, Portugal

Traffic Prediction for Unplanned Events on Motorways PhD Advisors: João Bento (IST-UL), Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT)

Nationality: Indonesian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

2013

Abdur Berawi

Improving Railway Track Maintenance Using Power Spectral Density (PSD) PhD Advisors: Raimundo Delgado (FEUP), Rui Calçada (FEUP)

Ana Costa Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Post Doctoral Associate at Masdar Institute

Planning for Robust High-Speed Rail Systems: The Effects of Natural Hazards PhD Advisors: Paulo Coelho (FCTUC), Maria da Conceição Cunha (FCTUC), Herbert Einstein (MIT)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Carlos de Almeida Roque Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Research Fellow at LNEC

Critérios de Segurança para a Área Adjacente à Faixa de Rodagem na Rede Rodoviária Nacional PhD Advisors: João Paulo Cardoso (LNEC ), José Coelho das Neves (IST-UL)

Filmon Habtemichael Nationality: Eritran Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Research Associate at Battelle Memorial Institute, U.S.A

Improved Active Traffic Management System For Motorway Safety and Efficiency: Benefits of reducing the driving task difficulty PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL)

Gonçalo Caiado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Urban planner at Lisbon Municipality

Modelling the Vulnerability of Complex Transport Network Systems: An Application to Seismic Risk in Urban Environment PhD Advisors: Rosário Macário (IST-UL), Carlos Oliveira (IST-UL)

João Pita Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Strategic Planning Executive at GRU Airport, São Paulo, Brazil

Air Traffic Network Design PhD Advisors: António Antunes (FCTUC), Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Luís Maia Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Consultant at SPI - Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação

Development and Application Of A Strategic Rail Network Optimization Model for Freight Transport PhD Advisors: António Couto (FEUP), Paulo Teixeira (UL)

Rui Gomes Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Post-Doc Researcher at Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Dynamic Vehicle Routing for Demand Responsive Transportation PhD Advisors: Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP), Teresa Galvão (FEUP)

Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Professor at UniCEUB - Centro Universitário de Brasília

2014

Ana Barros

Diz-me como Andas que te Direi Onde Estás: Inserção do Aspecto Relacional na Análise da Mobilidade Urbana para o Pedestre PhD Advisors: Luís Martinez (IST-UL), José Manuel Viegas (IST-UL)

António Andrade Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Research Fellow at Institute of Railway Research at the University of Huddersfield, UK

Prediction and optimization of maintenance and renewal actions related to rail track geometry PhD Advisors: Paulo Fonseca Teixeira (IST-UL)

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DPTS PhD Alumni António Vasconcelos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Avaliação do Desempenho Operacional de Rotundas: Modelos e Aplicações PhD Advisors: Álvaro Seco (FCTUC), Ana Bastos Silva (FCTUC)

Arminda Almeida Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

A methodological framework for pavement damage estimation considering simulated axle load spectra PhD Advisors: Luis de Picado-Santos (IST-UL)

Carlos Lima Azevedo Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Research Scientist / TEC Executive Director at MIT

Probabilistic safety analysis using traffic microscopic simulation PhD Advisors: João Cardoso (LNEC) Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT) Filipe Moura (IST-UL)

Diana Jorge Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Junior Software Engineer at ORTEC

Optimization and Simulation of One-Way Carsharing Operations PhD Advisors: Gonçalo Correia (FCTUC), Cynthia Barnhart (MIT)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Fernando Martinho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Misturas Betuminosas Temperadas com Incorporação de Subprodutos Industriais - Caracterização e Validação Tecnológica PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL)

Giullio Piccinini Nationality: Italian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Curent position: Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Drivers behavioural adaptation to the use of Advanced Cruise Control (ACC) And Blind Spot Information System (BLIS) PhD Advisors: Carlos Manuel Rodrigues (FEUP)

Guineng Chen Nationality: Chinese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Transport Analyst at OECD - Paris, France

Regional Impacts of High Speed Rail: Prospective Analysis for Portugal and Evidences from Spain PhD Advisors: João de Abreu e Silva (IST-UL)

Merkebe Demissie Nationality: Ethiopian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Estimation and Prediction of Road Traffic Status with Information from Multiple Sources PhD Advisors: Gonçalo Correia (FCTUC/TUDelft), Carlos Lisboa Bento (FCTUC)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Xiao Chen Nationality: Chinese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra

Reliable Dynamic Signal Control – A Simulation-Based Optimization Approach PhD Advisors: Bruno Santos (FCTUC)

André Romano Alho

2015 2015

Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Technology and Research (SMART) centre

Improved Mobility And More Sustainable Urban Logistics Through The Configuration And Enforcement Of (Un) Loading Bays. PhD Advisors: João de Abreu e Silva (IST-UL), Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP)

Ashenafi Weldemichael Nationality: Ethiopien Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Deputy Scientific Director at Ethiopian Institute of Technology, Mekelle, Ethiopia

Optimization based approach for land-use/transportation policy making PhD Advisors: António Antunes (FCTUC), Christopher Zegras (MIT)

Diana Silva Leal Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra Current position: Researcher

Rail Cargo on the Lisbon-Madrid High-Speed Rail Line: an assessment of feasibility PhD Advisors: Luís de Picado-Santos (IST-UL), Bruno Filipe Santos (Delft University of Technology)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Edgar Perez Nationality: Colombian Institutional affiliation: Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto Current position: Associate Professor at University of Ibague, Colombia

Airport strategic planning in the context of low- cost carriers ascendency: insights from the European experience PhD Advisors: Jorge Pinho de Sousa (FEUP), João Claro (FEUP), Richard de Neufville (MIT)

John Pritchard Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher at University of Twente, The Netherlands

Exploring the relationship between social exclusion, well-being, accessibility and daily mobility in Lisbon, Portugal PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL), João Abreu e Silva (IST-UL)

Rui Santos Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa

Planning and scheduling models towards a more efficient heavy maintenance of the railway track PhD Advisors: Paulo Teixeira (IST-UL), Joseph Sussman (MIT)

Ryan Allard Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Fellow at Project Drawdown

Intermodal Passenger Transport: Are Operators On-board? A Game Theory Examination of Operator Incentives. PhD Advisors: Filipe Moura (IST-UL)

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DPTS PhD Alumni Tiago Ferreira Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher & Project Manager in Railway Systems at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST-UL)

Design of Railway Track Substructure Modelling the Long Term Thermo-Hydro-Mechanical Behaviour Due to Traffic and Environmental Actions PhD Advisors: Paulo Teixeira (IST-UL)

Tomás Eiró Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Partner at Luis Martínez Consultores, Lda

Assessing the Role of Shared Transport Alternatives in Urban Mobility. An Agent-Based Simulation Approach PhD Advisors: Luís Martinez (IST-UL), Chris Zegras (MIT)

Yu Shen Nationality: Chinese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore

Impacts of high-speed rail on urban configurations PhD Advisors: João Abreu e Silva (IST-UL), Luis Miguel Martínez (OECD)

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Complex Transport Infrastructure Systems

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CTIS Masters Alumni

2015 2008

Ana Ripari Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Pleno Projects Analyst at TTC Engenharia de Trafego e Transportes

Júlia Orrico Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Investor Relations Specialist at Invepar, Brazil

Paulo Rodrigues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Silvia Soares Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Researcher at Yikons, UK

2015 2010

Andres Guaman

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Nationality: Colombian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Professor at Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria

Fernando Silva Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Matheus Marques Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Independent Consultant

Pedro Agrochão Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Consultant at Mott MacDonald

William Tavares Nationality: Brazilian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Civil Engineer at Caixa Economica Federal

Ashenafi Weldemichael Nationality: Etiopian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Invited assistant Professor at Bahirdar University

CTIS Masters Alumni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Manager at ANA

Hamed Pouryousef Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Research Engineer at Sharma & Associates, Inc.

Aleksandr Prodan Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal Program PhD students (DPTS)

André Pena Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Consultant at Transport Consulting, Arup

Edgar Jimenez Nationality: Colombian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Associate Professor at Universidad de Ibagué

Francisco Furtado Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: MIT Portugal Program PhD students (DPTS)

Mauro Peneda Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Senior Consultant at TAM

André Alho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Postdoctoral Associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology Centre

2011

David Costa

Dongchen Dai Nationality: Chinese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Hossein Bazrafshan Nationality: Iranian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

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CTIS Masters Alumni John Pritchard Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: PostDoc Researcher at University of Twente, The Netherlands

Sérgio Domingues Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Academic researcher at University of Antwerp, Belgium

Ryan Allard Nationality: Trinidad and Tobago Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Tyler Stinson Nationality: US Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Unemployed, USA

Yosief Yohannes Nationality: Eritrean Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Transport Data Analyst, Melbourne, Australia

2015 2012

Andrej Manic Nationality: Serbian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: OEM Logistic Engineer - Project Coordinator at GRUNDFOS

Jorge Espinoza Nationality: Bolivian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Project Manager at Cal y Mayor y Asociados, Mexico

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Imuentinyan Aivinhenyo Nationality: Nigerian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Doctoral student and Teaching Assistant at University of Cape Town, South Africa

Sofia Kalakou Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Doctoral Student at Instituto Superior Técnico

CTIS Masters Alumni Nationality: Hungarian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: PhD Student at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

Amin Acabarali Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Business Intelligence Consultant at AGAP2, Portugal

Houman Bateni Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Minas Vavakos Nationality: Greek Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Junior Transportation Engineer at SALFO and Associates, Greece

Teklezghi Ristu Nationality: Eritrean Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

Andre Khatchik Nationality: França Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Railway Network Consultant at Refer Telecom

2013

Tamás Matrai

João Fialho Nationality: Portuguese Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Railway sevice planner at CP - Comboios de Portugal

Nikhil Menon Nationality: Indian Institutional affiliation: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa Current position: Doctoral Candidate in Civil Engineering (Transportation) at The University of South Florida, Tampa FL, U.S.A

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