Patricia Lima holds a Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property Law and is a Portuguese Patent Attorney and European Trademark and Design Attorney. She is the coordinator of the Intellectual Property Unit, which is part of the Technology Transfer Office at Instituto Superior Técnico.

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

Gabriel Carvalho is a chemical engineer (MSc.) conducting his PhD in the field of green hydrogen production. Beyond his doctoral project, he pursues other meaningful challenges such as bringing together the doctoral community as Vice-President of Técnico PhD Hub and venturing across the coast of Tejo in his sailboat with friends and family, which he values the most.

Nuno Lemos Pires, Army Major General / Special Operations, PhD, (https://academiamilitar.academia.edu/NunoPires) is the Defence Policy Director General at the Ministry of Defence. He holds a PhD in History, Defence and International Relations; a master’s
degree in military science; a postgraduate in Military History; BA in Human Resources Management and a War College Diploma.
He served in several units including: Platoon and Company Commander in Infantry School; Professor of Military History, Military Operations and Strategy at the PRT War College; Intel Officer at the NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain; Military Assistant to the Commander at NATO Joint Command Lisbon; Mechanize Battalion Commander at the PRT Mechanized Brigade; Corps Cadet Commander, Deputy Commander, Coordinator of the PhD in History, Security Studies and Defence and Professor at the Military Academy; Training Director at the Combined Arms School; Defence Policy Deputy Director General at the Ministry of Defence; Commander of the European Union Training Mission in Mozambique (EUTM-Moz). During his assignments he participated in mission
in Mozambique (1995-1996 and 2021-2022), Angola (2000 and 2001), Pakistan (2005) and Afghanistan (2009-2010).
With 11 books published, he cooperated in more than 130 books, articles and projects written in Portuguese, Spanish and English, specially related to Military History, Strategy and International Relations.

Sekazi Kauze Mtingwa is Principal Partner at TriSEED Consultants and Administrative Judge with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
and National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP). In the US, he co–founded NSBP and National Society of Hispanic Physicists, while internationally, he co–founded the African
Light Source Foundation, Union of Physicists from Portuguese Speaking Countries, African Laser Centre, African Physical Society, Julius Nyerere University of Agriculture and Technology in Tanzania, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Ghana, Lightsources for Africa, the Americas, Asia, Middle East, and Pacific (LAAAMP), X–TechLab in Benin, and Greater Caribbean Light Source initiative.
Mtingwa played an important role in designing and constructing accelerator systems at Fermilab used to discover the top quark. He is co–recipient of the APS’s 2017 Robert R.
Wilson Prize for Achievement in the Physics of Particle Accelerators for the theory of intrabeam scattering, which played a crucial role in the discovery of the top quark at
Fermilab, Higgs particle at CERN, quark–gluon plasma at Brookhaven National Laboratory, and achieving ultra–high brightness in the latest generation of synchrotron light sources. Mtingwa was the first African American to be awarded an APS prize, its highest category of honors.
Mtingwa received the 2015 Distinguished Service Award from the American Nuclear Society for chairing a 2008 study on 21st century nuclear workforce needs that led to the US Department of Energy’s allocating 20% of its nuclear fuel cycle R&D budget to university programs, thereby saving a number of those programs.
For his mentorship of students, Mtingwa received the 2017 US White House Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Mtingwa serves as President of InCREASE, which seeks to increase access to national laboratories by Minority–Serving Institutions, chaired the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics C13 Commission on Physics for Development, serves as Co–Chair of the Greater Caribbean Light Source Initiative, and served as Founding Deputy Chair of the African Light Source Foundation, for which he serves as Editor–in–Chief of the facility’s Conceptual Design Report.
For his research and work in creating STEM opportunities both in the US and around the globe, Mtingwa received the inaugural International Science Council’s 2021 Policy–for– Science Award and the AAAS’s 2023 Philip Hauge Abelson Prize.
Mtingwa received BS degrees in both physics and mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Master’s and Ph.D. from Princeton University.

Pedro Afonso is the CEO of VINCI Energies in Portugal, a group that owns the brands Actemium, Axians, Sotécnica, Longo Plano, Omexom, and VINCI Facilities. He is a member of the Strategic Council for the Digital Economy of the Portuguese Industrial Confederation. Until 2017 he developed his career in several companies of the Novabase group, where he was a member of the executive committee. He is also Vice-President of the VINCI Citizenship Programme.

His work led him to launch the #movimentogivingback, which aims to share major challenges in the area of leadership development.  He was also a signatory member of the Brands for Portugal movement, believing that it is possible to develop a country with more value through differentiation, innovation, and brands.

He took management training at the Universidade Católica – Advanced Management Program – and at Stanford University – Entrepreneurship for Venture Capital. At Técnico, he studied Computer Engineering.

10 perguntas a Pedro Afonso (tecnico.pt)

Isabel Ribeiro is a retired Full Professor and Distinguished Professor of Robotics at the Instituto Superior Técnico and a senior researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics – Lisbon, which is part of the Associate Laboratory LARSyS. She undertakes mobile robotics research, field she pioneered in Portugal. She has coordinated national and international R&D projects in this topic and is especially engaged in promoting robotics to younger audiences. She is the author/co-author of 160+ scientific publications, a corresponding member of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, and was named, in 2016, one of the “Women in Science” by the National Ciência Viva Agency. She has substantial experience in university management, particularly at Técnico, where she was, for four times, a member, and Vice-President of the Governing Board.

Leonel Sousa received the PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, in 1996. He is currently a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (DEEC) at IST, and a senior researcher at INESC-ID. he has been President of DEEC from 2017-2020, and President of INESC-ID in the periods 2011-2014 and 2018-2019. His research interests include computer architectures, high performance computing, and embedded systems. He is currently Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, and Senior Editor of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems. Dr. Leonel Sousa is Fellow of the IET, Distinguished Scientist of the ACM, and IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor.

Amílcar Soares – Full Professor at the Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) and Visiting Professor at some other schools in UAE, Australia and Brasil. He was Distinguished Lecturer of International Association of Mathematical Geosciences. The most of his R&D work is focused on Geostatistics and Spatial Data Sciences methods applied to mineral and energy resources engineering.

Fredederico Ferreira, is a Associate Professor @ Técnico Lisboa

Email: frederico.ferreira@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Academic Titles

-PhD in Chemical Engineering

-MBA (Master of Business and Administration)

-BSc in Applied Chemistry, specialization in Biotechnology

Prof Frederico Ferreira is an Associate Professor at the Department of Bioengineering (DBE), Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), and leads, at Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (iBB), the Focus Area Biomaterials and Devices for Advanced Medicine and the “Biomimetic and Bioinspired Materials and Processes Lab” Frederico Ferreira got his Ph.D. in 2004 from Imperial College London (IC), holds a MBA  (2006-2008) and a BSc on Applied Chemistry (5 years degree with a 2 years specialization in Biotechnology), both from Nova University of Lisbon. He has the privilege to teach at DBE-IST courses such as Entrepreneurship in Bioengineering, Green Technologies and Strategic Management, Biomaterials Technology, Organ engineering and Topics in Bioengineering, among others.

Frederico Ferreira current research interests, balance between fundamental and applied research, with potential translation into the market of sustainable products and processes. The current research lines aim at the development of new processes, reactors and materials for:
1. Tissue engineering, with focus on the developing of electrical and magnetic stimuli responsive nanotechnologies, scaffolds and bio-inks for developing tissue constructs from stem cells and target cancer therapies exploring biophysical approaches;
2. Sustainable separations and biorefineries, including the use of membrane technology and design of molecular imprinted polymers with focus on pharmaceutics and food industry, as well as the use of unconventional yeasts for production of added value products, such as fuels, biosurfactants and enzymes from residues and wastes; and

3. Cellular Agriculture, with focus seafood products production with low ecological impact, namely by developing novel edible bio-inks and scaffolds made from algae and vegan materials and their use on strategies that foster tissue growth, maturation and organization into final food prototypes.
– http://scerg.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/biomatdeviceslab1.html

Nuno obtained his BSc, MSc and PhD all in Computer Engineering at Técnico. During those 9 years he did research at INESC, worked with the Fénix team and interned twice at Google. He then joined Feedzai and experienced the life of a fast growing startup, for 5 years, leading software engineers. More recently he became a Principal Engineer at Cloudflare, which protects over 20% of the Internet traffic (among many other things!).

Luís Quinto is a Major in the Portuguese Army with 15 years of experience in Logistics and Maintenance. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, he has been a Professor at the Military Academy (Portugal) and a CINAMIL researcher since 2015. Luís specialized in exoskeletons, having participated in the development of several dual-purpose prototypes. His main interests include rehabilitation/human enhancement, additive manufacturing and project management. In his spare time, he likes cycling and hiking in nature.

Susana Vieira is an Associate Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon since 2020, and Principal Researcher at the Centre for Intelligent Systems of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC) since 2010. She holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering since 2010 in the area of Soft Computing Applied to Machine Learning, Data Analysis and Optimization. She was an Invited Teacher at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2009, and she was a visiting Scholar at MIT, Boston, USA and a Visiting Researcher at the Division of Clinical Informatics of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in 2014. She has extensive experience in the application of Artificial Intelligence in projects with Industry. Her research focuses on the development of Computational Intelligence algorithms in different areas such as Health, Energy or Industry.

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

Title: “How to prepare an excellent presentation (or at least an acceptable one)”

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

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

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

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

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

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

Title: “Well being & productivity during your PhD”

During this two hour workshop, PhD students will be invited to reflect on what dimensions are relevant for their productivity and for their wellbeing.
PhD students will also be invited to develop working schedules that support and balance these two dimensions, including some ideas on time management, stress management and personal development.
PhD students’ relationship with colleagues and supervisor, including the management of networking activities will also be considered.