Faculty
A team of faculty from the different departments at IST with a broad international experience.
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Program Coordinator
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Nuno Jardim Nunes is a Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, President of the Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI), and a visiting professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He explores how AI, sensors, and mixed reality drive sustainability and participatory culture, leading to large-scale testbeds such as the Bauhaus of the Seas. |
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Courses: | Arlindo Oliveira is a Distinguished professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and senior researcher at INESC-ID and President of INESC. Distinguished guest professor at Macau University of Science and Technology, member of the board of CGD, member of the Portuguese Academy of Engineering, of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and of ACM. Senior member of IEEE and fellow of ELLIS. |
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Courses: | Bruno Martins is an Associate Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, a researcher at the Human Language Technologies Lab of INESC-ID, and a Lisbon ELLIS Unit (LUMLIS) member. He works on problems related to the general areas of information retrieval, text mining, and the geographical information sciences |
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Courses: | Carlos Baleizão is an Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, member of the research center CQE and coordinator of the Functional Materials Chemistry thematic line. His research interests focus on developing new synthetic methodologies of hybrid nanostructured materials for application in societal challenges (health, water and energy). |
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Courses: | Diogo Oliveira e Silva is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, and Vice President of the International Center for Mathematics (CIM). His research explores uncertainty principles, sphere packings, and the interaction between nonlinear Fourier analysis and quantum signal processing. |
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Courses: | Ermelinda Maçôas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Principal Researcher at the Centro de Química Estrutural with a PhD in Chemistry, and a background in photochemistry and photophysics. Current research interests are focused on Near-Infrared-light-activated processes in carbon-based nanomaterials and hybrid materials with application in imaging and sensing. |
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Courses: | Hugo Tavares is a Professor in the Mathematics Department and a member of the research center CAMGSD. He serves on the scientific commitee of the New Talents program of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. His research primarily focuses on mathematical analysis, partial differential equations and shape optimization, as well as their connection to mathematical physics. |
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José Monteiro is a Professor at the Computer Science and Engineering Department, and senior researcher at INESC-ID, where he was director for 8 years. His main interests are in high-performance computing, computer architecture, parallel algorithms, and electronic design automation. He is the author of the pedagogical book “Arquitetura de Computadores: dos Sistemas Digitais aos Microprocessadores”. |
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João Pimentel Nunes is a Full professor at the Department of Mathematics of IST and a member of the Center for Mathematical Analysis, Geometry and Dynamical Systems member. His research focuses on geometric quantization: a framework for the geometrization of quantum mechanics ideas that relate symplectic and Kahler geometries, representation theory and other mathematical topics. |
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João Paulo Carvalho, Associate Professor at at the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Executive Director of INESC-ID, specialises in Computational Intelligence, NLP, and social network analysis, with over 140 publications and leadership roles in major conferences and journals. |
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Moisés Luzia Pinto, is Associate Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and researcher at CERENA. He was President of CERENA, Assistant Secretary General of the Portuguese Chemical Society and is currently VP of the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research has been focused in the past 20 years on adsorbent materials and related applications, with several types of materials. He has successfully developed materials and processes for gas separation/purification, gas storage and therapeutic gas delivery. |
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Rodrigo Costa is Associate Professor at the Bioengineering Department. His research addresses the diversity and function of microorganisms in natural and fabricated biomes – with emphasis on Eukaryote-Prokaryote symbioses studied with metagenomics approaches. |
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Luís Viseu Melo is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department, and co-head of the Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Laboratory at the Center of Physics and Engineering of Advanced Materials (CeFEMA). He works on the development of applications and technologies related to AFM. He is currently the Chair of the OECD Working Party on Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Converging Technologies (WP-BNCT). |