Ilo Aguiar

PhD student, Digital Media

Supervisor: António Granada; Co-supervisor: João Sàágua

Enrolled: 2014

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Journalism; data-driven journalism; big data; data visualization; narrative visualization; storytelling; infographics.

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João Miguel Aguiar

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: José Manuel Azevedo (U. Porto) and Pedro Campos (U. Porto)

Enrolled: 2012

Current Position: Researcher at the Center for Research in Communication, Information and Digital Culture (CIC.Digital).

Thesis Title: Digital Divide and Online Political Participation: What Kind of Citizenship for the 21st Century?

Research Work/Interests: Social Processes, Communication Sciences, Digital Media Research, Digital Divide, Web Based Digital Media, Political Communication, Digital Media Political Uses, e-Government; e-Society; Digital Inclusion, Digital Literacy, Digital Divide Index, and Time-distance methodology.

Institutional Email Adress: pdd12008@fe.up.pt

David Alves

PhD student, Advanced Computing

He received the MsC degree in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra in 2007, devoting special attention to distributed systems and systems integration. Meanwhile he was working at Critical Software S.A., where he stayed for 2.5 years, and where he acquired solid computer programming skills manly in the areas of J2EE business applications, search engine development and distributed, highly available, computing and storage. While the interest in the parallel computing paradigm emerged while he was doing his BsC the professional projects that ensued provided both the background and the motivation to pursue the field of Advanced Computing.

CISUC (Center for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra)

Department of Informatics Engineering of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra - Polo II

Universidade de Coimbra,

3030-290 Coimbra

Portugal.

Phone: +351 96 2381560

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Luís Aly

PhD student

Supervisors: Gilberto Bernardes (advisor) and Rui Penha (co-advisor)

Enrolled: 2016

Title: Performative Sound Design

Abstract: Performative arts have long explored creative strategies based on open forms, mostly improvisational. I strive to design a computational system which is capable of integrating the compositional elements of the performance in a volatile way. The proposed model aims to instigate a framework for collaborative creation between sound and gesture-based on biofeedback-informed music practices, which will help the sound designer to explore the spectrum of sound parameters interactively

Interests: Sound design for Performance Arts

Jose Andrade

PhD student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2014

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David Aparício

PhD Student, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Andrew Lenharth and Keshav Pingali

Enrolled: 2014

Research Work: 2014: Develop efficient algorithms for GPU using CUDA. 2015: Parallel Subgraph Census using Galois.

Pedro Araújo

MSc student, Advanced Computing

Advisor: Alberto Proença (U.Minho)

Enrolled: 2003

CTO & Founder at Attentive, Lda

Research Work: Parallel Computing with Graphical Processors.

Pedro Ângelo

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2011

Interactive Systems Research Consultant

Pedro Ângelo is a PhD student in Digital Media at the University of Oporto in the context of the UTAustin|Portugal program, and formerly an independent technical research consultant for creative projects.

He has been around coding and games since he got his first computer at age eight. Since then, he has been a DJ, drummer apprentice, record shop clerk, sound designer and somehow got himself a BSc. In Computer Science. After a brief experience as a researcher digging through 80’s Fortran code for astronomic simulations, his interest in the expressive potential of videogames and his love of the demoscene made him enroll in a MSc in Computer Graphics where he met a group of talented individuals with whom he founded his own startup company.

He currently works as a creative translator the intersection between technology and Digital Art, helping artists bring their visions to reality. His current research is focused on creating tools that allow artists to collaboratively harness the potential of distributed heterogeneous hardware systems in their everyday practice.

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Paulo Bala

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Valentina Nisi (M-ITI) and Nuno Correia (FCT/UNL)

Enrolled: 2016

Interests: Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality and Immersive Journalism.

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Ricardo Baptista

PhD student, Digital Media

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Diogo Barbosa

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

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João Barbosa

PhD Student, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Donald Fussell, Luís Paulo Santos and Alberto Proença

Enrolled: 2011

Research Work: In-situs Visualization with energy concerns.

Interests: Computer Graphics / Parallel Systems.

Jorge Barcelos

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2016

Research Work: Visual Literacy and Visual Rhetoric.

Farid Bozorgnia

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics

Supervisors: Diogo Gomes and Juha Videman

Enrolled: 2012

Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher

Research Work / Interests: Numerical analysis of partial differential equations Free boundary problems; Systems of Reaction-Diffusion and segregation Nonlinear Eigenvalues problems for p-Laplace and infinity Laplace operator Optimization, Image processing, Level set method.

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Ioli Campos

PhD student, Digital Media

Supervisor: António Granado

Enrolled: 2014

I started my career as a radio producer in Madrid, Spain, in 2000. After that I have worked mostly as a press reporter for Portuguese dailies and newsmagazines, such as Público and Sábado. I have been a foreign correspondent in Helsinki, Finland and a visiting journalist in Austin, Texas. My biggest passion as a journalist is to chase a good story wherever it leads me. I already had the privilege of ending up in quite interesting locations such as Cambodia, Laos, Kosovo, Egypt, Algeria, Western Sahara, Iceland or Lapland. I also teach news and feature writing at Cenjor.
Holding a Masters in journalism and a Postgraduation in Human Rights, I am currently a PhD fellow in Digital Media within the University of Texas at Austin / Portugal Colab. My first trip to Austin was in 2011 when I was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to study environmental journalism. Then, thanks to FCT funding I was able to return in 2015. My current research interests include topics such as: news literacy, environmental reporting, online journalism, multimedia, storytelling, feature writing and human rights.

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Antonino Carvalho

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

Rodrigo Carvalho

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2011

Rodrigo Carvalho (Porto, 1983), designer & new media artist from Porto/Portugal.
Graduated in Design (U. Aveiro-PT, 2005) and with a Master Degree in Digital Arts (U.Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona,2009).
Rodrigo’s work on live visuals, coding and interactive art involves a range of different outputs, from screen digital work, interactive installations, audiovisual live acts, or interactive visuals for stage performance. His work has been exhibited/performed in several events and locations including: Sonar Festival (Barcelona, 2012), Mutek (Barcelona 2013), ISEA (Dubai, 2014), Eyes Hears and Feet (Austin, 2014), VAVA showroom (Berlin/Barcelona/Porto/Paris, 2014/2015), XCOAX (2014) among others.
His research is focused on the relations and the synergies between sound, movement and image in audiovisual real time systems and environments.

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Vítor Carvalho

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: Prof. Doutor Diamantino Freitas

Enrolled: 2015

Current Position: Computer Technician in the Development and Innovation Unit - Information Systems Area of UPdigital.

Interests: Acessibility with the main focus on persons with visual impairment. Education through Digital Media.

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Guida Casella

PhD student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2011

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Guida Casella is a digital creative and researcher in the UT Austin-Portugal Digital Media Programme working in Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University Lisbon.
With a background in Fine Arts and an MA in Scientific Illustration, she situates her work between art, science, communication and technology.
Her PhD research examines information visualization in archaeology historically and comparatively, across print and digital media.
The main research question is how the computer screen, as the main way of accessing information today, is impacting the tradition of pictorial representation of the historical past. The hypothesis is that the principles of interactivity and digital storytelling applied to visual methods for archaeological research and dissemination, remediate older media but also innovate, increasing participation and engagement.
Her research interests include heritage interpretation, digital storytelling, community arts and participatory culture. Her research and creative work has resulted in publications, exhibits, community arts and web projects.

Publications

Mundo Mouraria, 2013
Bagabaga Studios, Guida Casella (Producer)
Interactive Documentary about Architecture, Crisis, Food and Resilience.
Winner of Crisis Buster grant, Lisbon Architecture Triennial (Oct 2013)
www.mundomouraria.com

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Paulo Castanheiro

PhD student, Digital Media

Advisors: Paulo Nuno Vicente; Dora Santos Silva

Enrolled: 2017

Current position: Sound Designer Media Capital Rádios – Member iNova Media Lac

Title: A rádio no novo ecossistema digital Produção e distribuição de conteúdos rádio.

Research work: The main objective is to analyze how radios worldwide are adapting to the new digital ecosystem in terms of content production and distribution. In a scenario of uncertain future, permanent crisis and a constantly announced end, it is hoped that this PhD work will ultimately make a useful contribution to the challenges that radio and its professionals face in the complex and competitive digital ecosystem.

Joana Cerejo

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2016

Research Work/Interests: Currently my background and professional activity are around User-Experience Design. And in the past years, I have been observant to the confluence among User-Experience Design and Internet of Things (IoT). With this in mind, I saw in this doctoral program a singular opportunity to study even further the synergy between these two fields. IoT cannot improve people's quality of life if do not fetch any utilitarian and hedonic value. And for that reason, my studies will be focused on how people accept or reject IoT applications and services, in order to enhance, clarify, and increase their acceptance to it. The research shall attempt to identify opportunities, prospects, limitation and risk embedded in the design process applied to the IoT design projects. The understandings shall help us to theorize how the IoT might be designed and focused on human-centered perspectives.

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Vanessa Cesário

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Valentina Nisi (M-ITI) and António Coelho (FEUP | U. Porto)

Enrolled: 2015

Research Work: Enhancing Museums Through Games and Stories for Younger Audiences.

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John R. Clegg

PhD Student, Emerging Technologies

Supervisor: Nicholas A. Peppas

Enrolled: 2014

Current Position: Graduate Research Fellow.

Research Work: Development of Synthetic, Protein-Recognitive Drug Delivery Systems. In this work, I am developing synthetic hydrogel nanoparticles and microparticles to recognize, and interact specifically with, protein biomarkers of cancer and delivery small molecule therapeutics.

Interests: Protein-Biomaterial Interactions, Biomaterial Design, Drug Delivery, Regenerative Engineering, Engineering Education and Undergraduate Research. 

Diogo Cocharro

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Rui Penha and Gilberto Bernardes

Enrolled: 2016

Current Position: Research Assistent @ SMC Group/INESC TEC

​I'm interested in research related to interactive music systems following questions like how to use the computer as a musical partner in a live performance.​ My current proposal targets the creation of a live improvisation system with a solo instrument in which the sound recorded live by the performer is recreated interactively from the real-time manipulation of extensive databases of previously classified sounds.

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João Conniot

PhD Student, Emerging Technologies

Supervisor: Helena F. Florindo

Enrolled: 2013

Research Work: Multicomponent Particulates for Immune Modulation.

Interests: Tumor Immunology, Immunotherapy and Nanomedicine.

Luís Filipe Pinho Correia

MSc, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Miguel Dias Costa (U.Porto) and Ron Elber (UT Austin)

Enrolled: 2010

Current Position: Project Lead and Development Lead

Research Work: Protein Dynamics research.

Interests: Distributed Computing, NoSQL, Building/Designing Systems.

Rui Dias

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Carlos Guedes (NYU AD) and Bruce Pennycook (UT Austin)

Enrolled: 2009

Current Position: Adjunct Professor at the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco (ESART-IPCB).

Research Work: Interfacing Jazz - A Study in Computer-Mediated Jazz Music Creation And Performance.

Institutional Email Adress: ruidias@ipcb.pt

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Mara Dionísio

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Valentina Nisi (M-iti), Nuno Correia (FCT/UNL) 

Enrolled: 2015

Mara is currently a PhD student at the M-iti and FCT under the UT Austin | Portugal program. She studied Informatics Engineering and during her master thesis about Location Aware Storytelling she discovered a passion in designing experiences that can make the users feel completely immersed.
Then she decided to enroll in a Masters of Entertainment Technology a joint program between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Madeira. Since then her interests in location and themed-based entertainment have become stronger, and now during her PhD studies she is interested in applying HCI techniques and entertainment technologies concepts in order to design and evaluate a location aware experiences that provides the tourists with a meaningful experiences. The end goal is too extract guidelines for future forms of eco-cultural entertainment specifically designed to create awareness about nature and cultural heritage.

Assunção Gonçalves Duarte

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: João Sàágua

Enrolled: 2013

Research Work: Animated GIFs and short visual stories in online journalism: impact on social justice engagement and participatory culture. 

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Lígia Duro

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction

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Ricardo Melo Faria

MSc Graduate, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Dra. Adélia Sequeira (IST) and Dr. Michael Sachs (UT Austin)

Enrolled: 2014

Current Position: IT Consultant at Novabase.

Research Work: A Computational Approach on Mapping Real Data Biomedical Geometries.

Delineating the normal postnatal development of the pulmonary artery (PA) and ascending aorta (AA) can inform our understanding of congenital abnormalities, as well as pulmonary and systolic hypertension. Therefore, it is important to study in detail the growth characteristics of these arteries. On an initial stage of this kind of study the primary task is to represent the geometry involved in the problem. 

Our main goal is to formulate and implement a novel coordinate system using Wolfram Mathematica in order to represent and reconstruct the geometry of the pulmonary artery of a sheep computationally. We will call this new coordinate system the annular coordinates. Before applying the change of coordinates to real data, we validate this approach of reconstruction and representation for an idealized torus-like PA geometry, discussing the results for both afterwards.

Interests: Philosophy, Mathematics, Photography, Reading, Music.

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Luís Fernandes

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: Prof. Doutor Carlos Manuel Pires Correia

Enrolled: 2010

Current Position: Teacher: Information Architecture Design, Researcher and Interaction Designer at CITI - Centro de Investigação para Tecnologias Interactivas - FCSH/UNL and Member of Interaction Design Foundation.

Thesis Title: E-textbooks in Formal Learning: A Dynamic Model for an Enhanced Learning Experience.

Research Work/Interests: Technology Enhanced Learning; User Experience (UX); Personal Learning Environments; Learner-centered Education.

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Manuela Fernandes

PhD Student, Emerging Technologies

Supervisors: Paula M. Vilarinho, Ana M. O. R. Senos and Paulo J. Ferreira

Enrolled: 2015

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Research: Exploring stresses to develop functional nanoceramics by in-situ TEM

Maria Fernanda Fernandes

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media

Researcher at FD-CEDIS/UNL

PhD in Political Science, Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Spain

DEA Universidade Santiago de Compostela, Spain

BBA Universidade Católica Portuguesa

Fernanda's main interests are in European Political Discourse and Political Communication.

António Ferreira

PhD student, Digital Media

Advisor: Pedro Mota Teixeira

Enrolled: 2017

Assistant Professor at Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA)

Research Work: From real to digital – Studies on digital production of 3D animation in STOP-MOTION technique.

Interests: Animation, Illustration, Stop-Motion, Cinema, Audio.

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Luís Ferreira

Enrolled: 2015

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Interests: Computer Graphics - graphic design, 3D & 2D design, 2D Animation, visual artist, storytelling, researcher, game designer.

Pedro Miguel Ferreira

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

Current Position: Teacher and Assistant Professor at ESTGV / Instituto Politécnico de Viseu

Interests: Computer Programming, Mobile, Teaching/Learning, Gamification, Gadgets.

Jaime Fins

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Nuno Moutinho (FEP - U. Porto) and António Coelho (FEUP - U. Porto)

Enrolled: 2012

Current Positions: Lecturer at the University Institute of Maia and E-Commerce Manager.

Thesis Titlte: Advertising in Immersive Virtual Reality Gaming Environments.

Interests: Virtual Reality, Serious Games, Gamification, Online Advertising.

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Luís Frias

PhD student, Digital Media

Education:
- Post Graduate Studies in New Media and Web Technologies, UNL | FCSH (2008-2009)
- Post Graduate Studies in Design Ergonomics for Information Systems, UTL | FMH (2005)
- Post Graduate Studies in Urban Design, CPD | Barcelona University (2003-2004)
- BA in Communication Design, FBAUL (1992-1996)

Professional Experience:
- Graphic Designer, Freelance (1995-2009);
- New Media Product Development Director, WAY Marketing Agency (2007-2008)
- Creative Director, WAY Marketing Agency (2006-2007)
- Assistant Professor, Portalegre Polytechnic School, Design Dept., IPP-ESTG (1999-2006)

Research Abstract:
Interactive Narratives in a Multisensorial Environment - The development of new digital systems and the relative accessibility of digital tools for the design, printing and production of narrative content has led traditional distribution and broadcasted narrative content to a dead end. A new interactive, personalized relationship which developed first between videogames and their audience, and later with PC based game narratives, has profoundly influenced all of the narrative media formats. In order to achieve a fully interactive, multisensory narrative experience, research is necessary in both the conceptual area of collaborative storytelling (which allows the audience to contribute to the script through interaction) and in the physical computer systems and interfaces which can read and produce the final output multi-sensorially.

Luís Gomes

PhD student, Digital Media

Luís Gomes’s experience lies in analysis of consumer-business relationships and in marketing, including five years heading the Marketing Department at Público, one of Portugal’s major newspapers.  His research interests focus on digital advertising, its characterization and permission marketing.

Tel. +1 512 9034609; +35193 7501080

Janna Joceli

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

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Ana Jorge

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Teresa Chambel and Nuno Correia

Enrolled: 2011

Research Work: Design for Interactive Visualisation of Movies and Videos in Time and Space.

Ana Jorge is a PhD Student in the Digital Media Program from Faculty of Sciences and Technology, New University of Lisbon, in Portugal, in cooperation with UT Austin University, USA, working at LASIGE - Large-Scale Informatics Systems Laboratory, at Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.
Ana has a Master in Contemporary Artistic Creation from University of Aveiro, a Post Graduation in Aesthetics and Philosophy of the Arts, a Bachelor in Communication design, and an Undergraduation in Fashion Design. In the academic field, Ana has presented several papers in conferences, and participated in the VIRUS and ImTV projects.
Professionally, Ana taught lessons on Information Design at UNL-New University of Lisbon, and is now teaching Design, Digital Media and Advertising at IADE-Creative University and ESAD-Escola Superior de Arte e Design in Caldas da Rainha. Worked as a group member of the UNL elearning, designing the graphic interface for the online courses, and engaging with the professors in order to ease the students' gaining of knowledge. As main background Ana worked as Image Expert, and Art Director in several advertising companies.

Jorge Jorge

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2016

Current Positions: Marketing & Communication Director of São João Hospital Center | Lecturer at FMUP

Interests: Marketing | Branding | Communication

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Michelle Kasprzak

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Chris Csikszentmihalyi (M-ITI) and Sandra Silva (FEP)

Enrolled: 2015

Research Work: Confrontation Pieces: Methodologies from Art and Design Reconfiguring Social Innovation.

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Rui Leitão

PhD student, Digital Media & Graphical User Interface Designer

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Luís Leite

PhD Graduate, Digital Media

Supervisor: Verónica Orvalho

Enrolled: 2010

Assistant at Escola Superior de Música, Artes e Espectáculo (ESMAE)
Member of Porto Interactive Center (PIC) and affiliated to Instituto Telecomunicações (IT)

Born in the city of Porto on a carnival night in 1973, Luis Leite assumes Grifu as alias, inspired by the mythical hybrid creature Gryphon that characterizes his own rich imagination. It is also a symbol of his trans-disciplinar way of thinking for breaking boundaries and supported by his multimedia academic background (bachelor em master degrees in multimedia technology). His motivation is to facilitate the use of technology by creative people, a maxim reflected in his work and research.
Inspired by storytelling and marionettes tries to bring the art of puppetry into computer performance animation researching HCI and computer graphics. Member of Porto Interactive Center (PIC) and affiliated with Instituto Telecomunicações his scientific work as been published in many international conferences and journals. He disseminates and performs with digital puppetry at events, festivals and workshops. His professional profile started as a computer programmer back in 1990 and gradually progressed to audiovisual and multimedia. He worked as a programmer, animator, sound designer or post-producer for companies such as Animago or Miragem, participating in the productions of TV Series such as Ace London (Live Action plus animation - Emmy award selection), Batatoon (children entertainment), Rita Catita (performance animation), Little Stars (children animated series); for animated films: "História de um Caramelo" (3D short film) or "Zé dos Pássaros" (2D short film); for performing arts: "Prometeu" (shadow puppet play), “Peregrinação” (Live Cinema), "Frágil" (puppet play). His main interests are in interface design (HCI), 2D/3D digital animation, digital puppetry, post-production and computer programming.

Research Work:  Virtual Marionette presents an interaction model for digital puppetry. 

A multidisciplinary research that attempts to bring the art of puppetry into computer animation.
A flexible and scalable digital ecosystem for collaborative puppeteering that facilitates the mapping of the human body to performing objects
Virtual Marionette expands the live storytelling experience through performance animation providing the means to dramatize stories in real-time. 

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João Miguel Lopes

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Soraia Ferreira (FEUP | U. Porto) and Amélia Brandão (FEP | U. Porto)

Enrolled: 2016

Current Position: Professor at University Portucalense and University European - Laureat International Universities.

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Research Work: Transmedia Narrative strategy in the communication process between brands and audiences.

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Hugo Machado

PhD student, Digital Media

After attending Electronics and Computers at the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto and graduating from Middlesex University in Jazz Composition, Machado completed the Masters in Multimedia in Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. His academic and professional backgrounds bring together computer science and arts.

In the field of music, Machado composed the theme for the 50 year celebration of "Estádio das Antas" and co-wrote with António Mão-de-Ferro the hymn for the inter-school Handball World Championship to take place in 2010, working with Direcção Regional de Educação do Norte. As a web-developer he worked in the research project DicMil (dicmil.iscap.pt) at the Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Administração do Porto with Dr. Manuel Moreira da Silva and the Centro de Multimédia e Línguas.

Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto

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4200-465 Porto

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Eduardo Magalhães

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Rui Luís Nogueira Penha (FEUP) and Rui Pedro Rodrigues (FEUP)

Enrolled: 2013

Current Position: Researcher @ FCT, Laboratório de I&D de Computação Gráfica, Interação e Jogos, Laboratório de I&D de Computação Sonora e Musical

Research Work: Fostering Immersion and Expressiveness in Multimodal Virtual Environments using Sonic Interaction Design. This research project focuses on the creation of sound spaces, user interaction with those spaces and the meaning conveyed by sound in specific contexts. This integrated approach aims at the development of sound tools and methodologies that are capable of enhancing the listener's sense of presence and immersion in Virtual Environments.

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João Magalhães

MSc Student, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Alberto Proença and João Barbosa.

Enrolled: 2015

Dissertation Titlte: Power-Aware Scheduler for Heterogeneous Environments.

Interests: High-Performance Computing, Formal Specification, Optimization, Computer Graphics.

Mariana Magalhães

PhD student, Digital Media

Advisors: António Fernando Vasconcelos Cunha Castro Coelho (FEUP); Maximino Esteves Correia Bessa (UTAD)

Enrolled: 2017

Interests: Virtual Reality; Virtual Tourism; 360-degree Videos; Linguistics; Communication Sciences; E-commerce

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João Marçal

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: Maria Manuel Borges

Enrolled: 2014

Research Work: The Audiovisual content in repositories of Higher Education: A contribution to the Open Science.

Horácio Tomé Marques

PhD Student, Digital Media

• Researcher / Student, pursuing the PhD in Digital Media – PDMD, University of Porto, Portugal | UT Austin, Texas, USA; • Teacher at College of Music, Image Arts and Performing Arts (ESMAE); • Designer - graphic and communication, creative and art director; • Musician - guitar, fingerstyle; • Visual Artist.

PhD thesis: "Music, Reason and/or Emotion - Understanding and exploring through BCI (Brain Computer Interface) the duality/unity of determinant constituents of human behavior and condition — or the brain potentials generated by the dynamics between music, reasoning and emotions in the context of performative arts practice".

A practice based research that follows a dual framework:
- an empirical scientific approach where with the help of colleagues from neurosciences I am researching on brain-waves, synchronization, phase-lock, oscillators, harmonic oscillators, oscillations, driven oscillations, driven synchronization, resonance, synergy potentiation;
- an artistic approach where my concerns and artworks (e.g., live
visuals) are anchored in the empirical processes of decoding the dynamics of the potentials occurring in the brain in ecological performative arts contexts.

His interests are:
- human potentials and human development;
- bio electrical human potentials —specially brain— generated in various contexts and various art practices;
- music, drawing, painting, dance, theatre;
- acoustics, psycho-acoustics, sound synthesis, sound decoding;
- study & play: traditions, new-directions (written and improvised) ; ear & study: classical, jazz;
- 3D and 2D digital image synthesis, virtual and immersive audio visual environments, multimedia technologies.
- impact of digital media and computer technologies in humans;
- relationships and interactions between humans and machines;

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Terhi Thora Marttila

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: Patrícia Gouveia

Enrolled: 2016

Interests: Motives for female migration in Europe, arts-informed inquiry, interactive/generative digital systems, playing with speech/text/thoughts.

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Alexandre Vieira Maschio

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

Professor of disciplines focused on audiovisual production (film, television and new media) in the Digital Media course at the Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil.

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Raul Masu

PhD student, Digital Media

Nuno Correia (M-ITI)

Enrolled: 2017

Research work: Digital Musical Instrument design: fostering authorship of composers and creativity of performers.

"My project aims at studying how scores can be adopted in interactive scenarios that foster performers' creativity in performances with digital musical instruments (DMI) that have some degree of unpredictability. More in detail, the specific objective of such study is to provide performers with some freedom, to help them to express their own creativity when performing with DMIs while maintaining the composer's authorship of the music. A secondary objective of the study is improving the development of creativity for students in pedagogic scenarios: in this case, music students will be the performers."

Interests: DMIs, HCI, Sound and Music Computing, Music.

Ana Isabel Matos

PhD Student, Emerging Technologies

Supervisors: Helena F. Florindo (FFUL) and João Pedro Conde (IST)

Enrolled: 2015

Research Work: Targeting tumor microenvironment by a translational multivalent nanomedicine.

Bruno Silvestre Medeiros

PhD Student, Advanced Computing

Supervisor: João Luís Sobral

Enrolled: 2013

Current Position: Working as a JAVA developer in the healthcare business.

Research Work: A framework for heterogenous many-core machines. Working in high performance parallel computing with languages such as C/JAVA/Aspect J.

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Arianna Mencaroni

PhD student, Digital Media

Advisor: Francisco Rui Cádima

Enrolled: 2015

Research Work: Interactive documentary, hypermedia ethnography, home movies, amateur film archives.

Farley Millano

PhD researcher, Digital Media

Advisor: André Neves

Enrolled: 2014

Professor and PhD researcher

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With over 10 years of experience in the technology sector, Farley has already lead projects for clients like: Unilever, IBM, Motorola, Samsung, among others. He has specialised himself in product management field, with a particular interested in the feedback loop, iterations and interaction between creative efforts and business needs.

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Madalena Miranda

PhD student, Digital Media

 Supervis or:   João Mário Grilo

Enrolled: 2014

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Cinematic and documentary models in web based construction and exhibition platforms; vernacular archive and the construction of collective memory with collaborative documentary.

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Léonard Monsaingeon

Post - Doc Research Fellow, Mathematics

Supervisor: Juha Videman (IST)

Enrolled: 2015

Assistant Professor, Université de Lorraine, Nancy - France

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Juliana Monteiro

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Professor Carla Morais (U. Porto) and co-Advisor Professor Miguel Carvalhais (U. Porto).

Enrolled: 2014

Thesis Title: Narratives of our age: Maintaining cultural identity through intergenerational storytelling and digital affinity spaces.

Research Work: Researching storytelling approaches during intergenerational dynamics towards a participatory contribution to the maintenance of cultural identity in affinity spaces. With an ethnographic approach, we explore intergenerational storytelling as the environment for the production of multimedia narrative artifacts that are able to reveal and share cultural identity information, following the study of how these stories survive and evolve in physical and digital affinity spaces.

Interests: Storytelling, Cultural Identity, Affinity Spaces, Intergenerational Dynamics.

Eduardo Morais

PhD student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2012

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Luciano Moreira

PhD student, Digital Media

Luciano Moreira was born in Porto in 1982. He studied at the University of Coimbra, where he got his degree in Psychology in 2005, and at the University of Porto, where he got his MSc in Psychology, in 2012. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Digital Media at the University of Porto (UT Austin | Portugal) with an FCT grant. He teaches at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto in the Master in Multimedia. His areas of interest include representations and practices on digital media, technological and digital ecologies and scientific research methods. 

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Fernando Nabais

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Stephan Jürgens and Nuno Correia

Enrolled: 2011

Research Work: The main question of his research is "How can Theatrical Robotics research and creation be a territory of experimentation for social robotics development?". The development of interactive performances involving human performers and robots, through a practice based research methodology, will raise a series of more specific questions in its different areas. 

Interests: Human Robot Interaction / Art and Technology.

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Diogo Neves

PhD Student, Advanced Computing

Main Research Interests

• Parallel and Distributed Systems Programming
• Multicore and High Performance Computing Platforms
• Software Engineering, namely Analysis, Design and Patterns
• Algorithm and Graph Theory
• BioInformatics

PhD Thesis

• Separation of Concerns in Advanced Computing

Dorneles Neves

PhD student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

Assistant Professor, Digital Media Department, Paraíba Federal University

Dorneles Daniel Barros Neves finished his undergraduate degree in Social Communication Advertising in December of 2006 at Centro Universitário Nilton Lins in Manaus, his hometown in Brazil. Then graduated a Master`s degree in Multimedia Communlcation at Aveiro Universty in Portugal in January of 2010 focused on digital audiovisual.

While studying in Portugal Dorneles Neves researched about video content, entertainment, and advertising on mobile devices such as smartphones. Consequently he soon became deeply fascinated with the new creative opportunities and constrains of video production and consumption in the mobile devices realm.

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Paula Neves

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: António Câmara

Enrolled: 2013

Research Work: Earth as Interface: Exploring multisensory interaction design for public and environmental health.

Bruno Nobre

UX Researcher

Invited Professor at IADE / UX Researcher

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With a master degree in Design and Visual Culture, in these last years Bruno Nobre has been enrolled in the design and evaluation of usability and user experience, enforcing the importance of these areas in the development of digital interfaces and interactive products. He also lectures related courses within this scope at IADE - Creative University, where he coordinate the post-graduation courses of Interactive Media Design and Web Design. Bruno Nobre is also part of the IADE-UX.Lab which studies the impact of digital technology in society and quality of everyday life. At the moment he is focused on researching user interface design and user experience in Interactive Television as a research fellow at FCT through the Digital Media doctoral program.

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Patrícia Nogueira

PhD student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2013

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Patrícia Nogueira is a documentary filmmaker and a doctoral candidate in Digital Media under the UT Austin-Portugal International Program, at University of Porto. She is also a fellow researcher from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, researching audiences in interactive documentary along with the National Film Board of Canada.

Nogueira has a MFA in Documentary Film, directs and produces her own documentaries and works regularly in other director's films, both documentary and fiction. Documentary was the way she chose to express herself about the surrounding world and her inner concerns. She likes to deeply know people, try to understand them, create a relationship and give them a voice. As a documentary filmmaker and as a researcher she is also committed with Feminist Film studies and Women’s representation.

Patrícia is a visiting lecturer at School of Music, Arts and Performing Arts (Porto, Portugal) where she teaches Documentary Film and Photography and an Assisting Professor at ISMAI (Maia, Portugal), teaching subjects as Directing, Editing and Semiotics.

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Afonso O’Neill

PhD Student

Has been researching collective intelligence tools for decision making support. Namely, he has been applying prediction market platforms to public policy decision making.
He would like to extend his research to other collective intelligence / collaborative tools, including creating add-ons to the existing prediction market platform (preferably based on mobile devices) as a means to better support decision making by aggregating dispersed information in useful ways.

Hernâni Zão Oliveira

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: Helena Lima

Enrolled: 2015

Current Position: PhD Digital Media Student, Health Education Master Student and Co-coordinator of the Health Literacy Creation Lab - LACLIS.

Research Work/Interests: Hernâni holds a double degree in Biology and Communications Sciences and a master degree in Oncology. Interested in Health Literacy, Health Communication, Collaborative Networks and Digital Health, he is currently enrolled in the Digital Media UT Austin | Portugal Doctoral Program, and in the Health Education Master Degree, from the Public Health Institute of the University of Porto.

Isabel Paiva

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: António Câmara

Enrolled: 2010

Current Position: Research fellow at CENSE - Center for Environmental and Sustainability Research.

Thesis Title: Extended skin – designing interactive content for ubiquitous computing materials.

Research Work/Interests: The motivation for current research rose from acknowledging that technological innovation is consistently happening in the fields of applied science (a.k.a. engineering). Despite this, the incorporation of state of the art inventions in quotidian life, excluding some discussed cases, has not typically been the priority concern of Architecture, Design and Art (A.D.A.) action. In the case of Ubiquitous Computing (U.C.) a deeper analysis into the subject show that there is a minority contribution from the humanities to the field (Dourisch and Bell, 2011). Dourisch and Bell simultaneously recognizes difficulties of applied science (engineering) to consider the humanities as fundamental contributors in the process of making. Current research pursuits to foster these relations, and questions if these can open perspectives on the matter of designing within a U.C. context.

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Stefania Patrizi

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics

Supervisor: Diogo Gomes

Enrolled: 2010

Graduated: 2013

Current Position: Assistant professor at UT Austin.

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César Perdigão

MSc Student, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Luís Paulo Santos and Alberto Proença

Enrolled: 2014

Graduated: 2015

Current Position: PhD Student (Computer Graphics)

Dissertation Title: Advanced Light Transport Algorithms on Heterogeneous Platforms: Evaluation of the DICE Framework.

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João Castro Pereira

PhD student, Digital Media

Supervisor: Nuno Correia

Enrolled: 2013

Lecturer since 2008 (IADE-U & Universidade Europeia – Laureate International Universities)

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Research Subject: E-Governance and Usability.

As an industrial designer (from the Fine Arts College in Lisbon) I have always been fascinated by usability, and the way people interacted with specific devices. Enrolling the PhD Program in Digital Media was the way I found to make the change from the physical to the digital world.

I’ve been lecturing at the Laureate International universities (Iade and Universidade Europeia) but always keeping in touch with on site jobs as a designer.

I hope to have a deep impact in the way people use e-government portals and websites, making truly accessible to everyone.

Carina Peres

PhD Student, Emerging Technologies

Supervisors: Helena F. Florindo (FFUL), Luís Graça (IMM) and Verónique Preat (UCLouvain)

Enrolled: 2013

Research Work: Intracellularly - targeted nanoplatform to target DCs and for immunomodulation.

Cláudia Pernencar

PhD candidate, Digital Media

Supervisor - Graça Simões
Co-supervisor - Teresa Romão

Enrolled: 2010

Visiting Professor Assistant (IADE-U & Universidade Europeia – Laureate International Universities)

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Her research work over the last years is related to Interaction Design for e-health and m-health especially with chronic diseases and cognitive disorders, where User Experience and Interface Design are the main focus. Ph.D. fellow in Digital Media at FCSH/UNL.
As a Research Assistant, in 2015 she was admitted at CECL (Communication Center for Studies and Languages) from UNL. In 2013 invited to join IADE-Ux.Lab (Research Group dedicated to UX studies in the context of interaction with digital technology). In 2011, she was also acknowledged at UNIDCOM/IADE (Research Unit in Design and Communication).
Visiting Professor Assistant at IADE-U and Universidade Europeia, where she teaches Interaction Design and Multimedia Design. Between 2012 and 2014 she engaged seminars of Interaction Design at universities like FCT.UNL, FE.UP, Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre and KEA University (Denmark).
Since 2008, she has been involved in software training and consulting. Adobe® Certified Expert/ Instructor currently for CC version. Co-writer of the books “Photoshop Cs4 e Cs5 Depressa e Bem” and “Photoshop CC Depressa e Bem". Both are from FCA Publisher.

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António Sá Pinto

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Matthew Davies (INESCTEC) and Rui Penha (U. Porto)

Enrolled: 2016

Research Work: Content-Based Creative Manipulation of Music Signals.

Interests: Sound and Music Computing.

Carlos Ramos

PhD candidate, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2013

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António Baía Reis

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: António Coelho (U. Porto) and R. B. Brenner (UT Austin)

Enrolled: 2016

Born in Porto - Portugal in 1987, António Baía Reis is an academic researcher interested in Communication Sciences, Cultural & Artistic Studies and Digital Media. He has a BA in International Relations, a MA in Communication Sciences and he is trained in Journalism, Languages, Theatre and Music. He is currently a PhD Research Fellow in the UT Austin | Portugal Digital Media Doctoral Program, focusing his research on Immersive Journalism and its interdisciplinary entanglements with areas such as Virtual Reality, Innovation in News, Audience and Reception Studies, and Cultural & Social Awareness. He has undertaken relevant experience in the field of corporate and cultural communication, playing multiple roles with broad range of both analytical and creative skills in communication, cultural management, social media, press relations, events manager and content production. He is also an experienced actor and pianist holding an Acting Diploma and classically trained in piano, with professional experience as a jazz and contemporary pianist and has an actor in both theatre plays and movies.

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Cláudio Reis

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: José Carneiro (FBAUP)

Enrolled: 2015

Thesis Title: Instagram Photography: Toward a contextual framework for social media photography.

Interests: Art; Photography; Social Media; Visual Culture.

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José Ricardo Ribeiro

MSc Graduate, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Chandrajit Bajaj (UT Austin) and Alberto Proença (U. Minho)

Enrolled: 2014

Research Work: Accelerated Docking and Fitting with Parallel FFT.

Süse Ribeiro

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2016

Research Work: Musical Performance and Sound Spatialization.

Inês Rodolfo

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisors: Nuno Correia and Carlos Duarte

Enrolled: 2011

Research Work: Design Strategy for Integrated Personal Health Records: Improving the digital user experience of the citizen healthcare and senior wellbeing.

Vanessa Sainz

PhD Student, Emerging Technologies

Supervisors: Helena F. Florindo (FFUL), Steve Brocchini (UCL) and Mire Zloh (UH)

Enrolled: 2012

Research work: Hybrid lipid polymeric nanoparticles as cancer immunotherapeutics.

Reus Salini

PhD Student, Advanced Computing

Research Interests

• Application of neural networks in asphalt pavement modeling and behavior prediction.

Helena Santos

PhD Student, Digital Media

Supervisor: João Sàágua

Enrolled: 2012

Research Work: The flow of influence in online social networks - The investigation she intends to putt through is about the impact of social changes and technological innovation in the flow of communication process and its implications on the national marketing industry.

Interests: Digital Marketing; Social Media; Search Marketing.

Carla Saraiva

PhD student, Digital Media

Supervisor: Nuno Correia Co-supervisor: Teresa Romão

Enrolled: 2014

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Field(s) of study: affective computing, human-computer interaction, wearables, psychophysiology

Carla has a degree and a masters in Informatics Engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, and a post-graduation in Usability and Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Nottingham, UK. She worked in a usability and interaction design company before enrolling in the UT Austin | Portugal Digital Media Doctoral Program, where she is currently developing applications and studying the intersection between human-computer interaction, affective computing, artistic expression, crowdsourcing, wearables and self-tracking, psychophysiology, and positive computing. 

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Rossella Schillaci

PhD student, Digital Media

Advisor: Paulo Nuno Vicente

Enrolled: 2017

Interests: Documentary filmmaking, virtual reality, VR 360° video, immersive storytelling, interactive documentary

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Jaqueline Silva

PhD student, Digital Media

As a true believer in knowledge as a powerful source of change, she wrote a book about Unemployment in Portugal to help people obtain a different perspective on how to move their lives forward, which was a result of her personal experience.

Communicating using the Digital Media has always been a big presence in her life and her field of work is focused on Entrepreneurship (she has already created two business) and Digital Media.

She is a passionate Writer, Entrepreneur and loves to travel.

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Paulo Sousa

MSc Student, Advanced Computing 

Supervisors: João Barbosa and Alberto Proença.

Enrolled: 2015

Research Work: The DICE Framework on the Development of an Efficient Path Tracer exploring Heterogeneous Computing.

Interests: Advanced Computing, Distributed Systems, Cryptography.

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Nataska Statham

PhD student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2017

Research Work: Real-time interactive visualization of cultural heritage (temporary title)

Interests: 3d graphics, VR/ AR, real-time visualization, game development, serious games, teaching, heritage

Edgar Teixeira

PhD student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2009

Presently I am a researcher in the Doctoral Program in Digital Media at the University of Porto (Portugal), investigating the impact of 3D displays and stereoscopic representation on the persuasiveness of communication campaigns. This study explores the use of incipient stereography image-making techniques in the production of information campaigns devised for 3D screens. Previously, I was an invited researcher at University of Texas at Austin (United States). I hold a graduate degree in Industrial Design from Faculdades Oswaldo Cruz (São Paulo, Brasil) and a Master degree in Multimedia from the University of Porto. Also, I received professional training in computer graphics production and 3D character animation at VIA University College (Denmark). I have been working in the area of visual communication for over a decade, being a design generalist with expertise in graphic design, interactive design and motion graphics. Furthermore, I have experience with production of illustrations and 3D animations and development of advertising campaigns. Having developed a career in different countries, I have a multicultural background with experience in various professional contexts, including academic institutions and communication companies, which contribute to a versatile analytical insight, innovative vision and technology savvy regarding the creative industry.

Ivo Teixeira

PhD student, Digital Media

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Jorge Tiago

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Adélia Sequeira (IST) and Thomas R. Hughes (UT Austin)

Enrolled: 2015

Research Work: MRI-based computational modeling of blood flow and nanomedicine deposition in patients with peripheral arterial disease: insights into disease management.

Interests: Mathematical Modeling of the Cardiovascular System.

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Ana Torrado

MSc Student, Advanced Computing

Supervisors: Adélia Sequeira (CEMAT group, IST), Jorge Tiago (CEMAT group, IST), Keshav Pingali (ICES, UT Austin) and Michael Sacks (ICES, UT Austin).

Enrolled: 2015

Research Work: Regarding the UT Austin | Portugal Program, Ana Torrado did an internship in Advanced Computing Research at ICES (UT Austin) about the modelling of the mitral valve considering the mechanobiological responses to stress overload, using the Computcell3D, Python and XML languages. At the same time, in 2015, in a collaboration between the Santa Maria Hospital and the CEMAT-IST group, Ana developed her Master Thesis related to the analysis of hemodynamic indicators in Bicuspid Aortic Valves.

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Sara Tranquada

PhD Student, Digital Media

Enrolled: 2015

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