Introduction of Myself & University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering
I received the Licenciate's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal in 2000 and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Manchester (former UMIST), UK, in 2004.
I joined the University of Porto - Faculty of Engineering as a Lecturer in January 2007. Since then, I have been developing teaching and research activities in electrical power engineering and renewable energy. I was appointed as a Permanent Lecturer in June 2008 at the Power System Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering.
My research interests include Electric Power Systems, Power Systems Protection and HVDC.
I am actively involved in the Power System Protection Group and Laboratory (which was co-funded by me in 2007 when I joined University of Porto) and where technical, administrative and commercial questions are addressed. This enabled me to evaluate the ultimate questions and most up-to-date solutions concerning power system protection challenges and thus increase the generation and delivery to the customers in a reliable, secure and quality way.
Since I joined University of Porto I have been promoting research projects in collaboration with local and international cooperation. In the meantime, I supervise a number of PhD candidates and MSc Students.
Where do I work? FEUP: A School of international reference (2012)
The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) is a public institution of higher education with statuary, scientific and financial autonomy. Our mission is to train world-class engineers and our effort is on research and development of excellence.
We are the largest faculty of the University of Porto, with 3 Licenciaturas, 9 Integrated Master Programmes (5 years), 7 Master Programmes (2 years) and 20 Doctoral Programmes.
Excellence. Innovation. Entrepreneurship. Qualities that make the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) a faculty of repute in Portugal and abroad.
Founded in 1926, FEUP is one of 14 faculties at the University of Porto. With its roots in the Polytechnic Academy, created in 1837, it is the largest university in Portugal and an internationally renowned institution.
FEUP works closely with several respected institutions such as the European Space Agency (ESA), IBM, Microsoft and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). It also teams up with research universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Texas at Austin (UTA) and the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). This close collaboration has allowed FEUP to reform and modernise its educational programmes. These programmes consider not only the needs of the many stakeholders in Portugal and abroad, but also the framework of institutions such as the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI), the Council of Associations of Long Cycle Engineers of University or Higher School of Engineering of the European Union (CLAIU) and the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER).
Supported its high quality R&D, which is produced as a result of the excellence of its various research units and its strong international partnerships, FEUP is an institution that seeks to ensure that students are able to conceive, develop, implement and operate complex systems in order to generate added value in an environment of social and professional sustainability, based on ethical principles.
FEUP has more than 7,000 students and 450 teachers across 9 departments: Civil Engineering, Mining Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Physics Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management, Informatics Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering and Chemical Engineering.
Professors and researchers are active in 26 R&D units, five of those units having received the rating of Excellent and nine other classification of Very Good by international evaluation panels appointed by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
The developments on research and innovation reflect the investment made in this area:
4.5% of Portuguese publications indexed to the ISI Web of Science
42 patents and brands
26 spin-offs (3 per year)
More information: www.fe.up.pt