Students and PostDocs
Students and PostDocsInterdisciplinary research,
education and capacity building
in advanced digital media
Hassan Najafi Alishah
ISTPhD student, Mathematics
Mathematical Interests: Differential Geometry, Symplectic & Poisson Geometry and their applications especially on Hamiltonian Systems. Lie Gruopoid and Lie Algebroids.
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001 LISBOA
Portugal
André Almeida
U.PortoPhD student, Digital Media
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto
Researcher, CETAC.media
André Valentim Pires de Almeida, Master degree in Information Management (University of Aveiro), PgDip in Health Informatics (UCL, UK) and degree in New Communication Technologies (University of Aveiro, having spent one semester in Erasmus at the University of Salford, UK).
Andre is currently pursuing his PhD on Interactive Documentary where he will research state of the art trends and outline best practices on how to produce an Interactive Documentary. The research will be practice-based since he will develop a prototype in order to test his findings.
Praça Coronel Pacheco, 8
4050-453 Porto
PORTUGAL
+351 223 393 660
Homepage: http://www.icicom.up.pt/~ava
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Heitor Alvelos
U.PortoPost-Doctoral Research Fellow, INESC Porto
PhD in Visual Culture, Royal College of Art (London), 2003.
Master of Arts in Visual Communication, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.
Main research areas: visual culture studies, collaborative media, post-subcultural ethnography, cultural criminology.
Current curatorship includes Nomadic.0910 - meetings between art and science, the annual Future Places digital media festival, and the 2011 Conference of the European Academy of Design.
Avenida Rodrigues de Freitas 265
4049 - 021 Porto, Portugal
Phone: +351 22 519 2426
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David Alves
U.CoimbraPhD 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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Ana Margarida Barata
Assistant at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP), researched at the I&D Group, Graphics Interaction and Learning Technologies (GILT)
U.PortoPhD Student, Digital Media
Graduated in Modern Languages and Literature in Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto in 1998, Ana completed her Master in English Culture in the same faculty in 2005. Since 2001 she has been Assistant in the Computer Engineering Department (DEI) at ISEP where besides being responsible for the Technical English and Language skills course units she collaborates in the I&D group GILT, and is part of the direction board of the Multimedia Laboratory (LAMU). At present she is also responsible for the International Relations issues at DEI. Her research area is on interactive audiovisual media, focusing on activist digital art. In 2009 she was granted the UT-Austin|Portugal scholarship in Digital Media.
Rua A. Bernardino de Almeida, 431
P-4200-072 Porto Portugal
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Diogo Cabral
FCT/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Diogo Cabral achieved his B.Sc. in Computer Science Engineering, at the FCT, UNL. During his B.Sc. studies, he participated in the Erasmus/Socrates Exchange Program, at the Facoltà SMFN, Università di Pisa, Italy, which gave him a full year of experience as international student. In the last years of his graduation, Diogo Cabral became highly interested in multimedia and computer-human interaction fields. The work developed in his diploma project was the background for the mEmLearn project, awarded with the HP Technology Teaching Grant Initiative 2006. The mEmLearn project had the goal to promote the usage of Tablet PCs on education, developing new ways of annotation and interaction with this technology. Diogo Cabral worked 3 years in research projects (the mEmLearn project included) at CITI, FCT, UNL, which led him to pursue a Masters in Computer Science Engineering degree in FCT, UNL. In his Ph.D. work, Diogo Cabral proposes the usage of pen-based technology for the manipulation of digital video, with the aim to improve the digital media human interaction and combine multimedia and human-computer interaction research topics.
Centro de Investigação em Informática e Tecnologias da Informação, CITI,
Departamento de Informática, DI,
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, UNL
Quinta da Torre, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal
Phone: +351212948536 ext. 10720
Sandra Coelho
U.PortoPhD student, Digital Media
With a Degree in Communication Design / Graphic Art, and a Masters in Multimedia Art researching on Generative Art from the Fine Arts Faculty of Porto University, her purpose as a PhD student in Digital Media is to do research on dynamic surfaces that change their physical appearance and texturing when we touch them, to improve our tactile sensations when interacting with tangible media and intensify the physical experience between users and digital systems. Her thesis will be on Haptic Art – biomimetic artificial systems, exploring the intelligent materials, and the emergent sensitive technologies. Having much curiosity by the complexity of the natural systems will be researched ways of reproducing in artificial systems, elements of that complexity, with special emphasis on the experience of the tactile sensation, intensifying the interactivity of the media, and exploring the physical sensation that drives us to the essence of our natural environment. For a future with fewer cold screens and more live surfaces that sense, react, and change their physical state, as a response to our inputs.
Faculdade de Engenharia
Universidade do Porto
Porto
Portugal
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Diego Farias
ISTPhD student, Mathematics
Diego has a Master's degree in Mathematics on Partial Differential Equations, which is his area of interest.
As a PhD student under the UT Austin | Portugal Program, he is a first year student at Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, under the guidance of the Professor Doctor Diogo Aguiar Gomes.
Instituto Superior Técnico
Departamento de Matemática
Lisboa, Portugal
Phone: +351 968 380 502
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Maria Fernanda Fernandes
UT AustinPost-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.
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Marta Ferraz
FCT/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
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Domingos Ferreira
UT AustinPost-Doctoral Research Fellow, Digital Media
Professor at FCSH/UNL
PhD in Engineering Systems and Production, Universidade do Minho
MBA Universidade do Minho
MBA European University
BBA Universidade do Minho
Domingo's main interests are in Marketing online buyer behaviour, B2b, B2C, B2G, branding.
Phone: +351964946797 or +351217908300 (ext. 1516)
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Luís Frias
FCSH/UNLPhD 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.
Hugo Machado
U.PortoPhD 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
Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n
4200-465 Porto
PORTUGAL
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Mónica Mendes
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon
FCT/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Assistant at the Multimedia Arts degree of the University of Lisbon [FBA/UL]
Mónica Mendes has a Masters in Multimedia Educational Communication, degree in Communication Design. She is a member of the CIEAM Research Center on Interactive Environments, and an altLab member on experimentation in alternative media. Additionally, she developed projects as a free-lancer, as a designer at Atelier B2, and as an interface design consultant.
PhD Abstract: RTiVISS – Real-Time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability – proposes innovative ways of conceiving both digital media arts and cutting edge environmentally sustainable practices through critical research and experimental approaches. Multiplatform devices will provide access to real-time networked video for users to "adopt" selected forests. The interactive system feeds a broad community sharing “the emotion of real-time” and the challenge of uncertainty, remotely monitoring natural environments for forests protection and aesthetic exploration. Assuming this surveillance metaphor, can we design a project that is both artistic and functional?
Homepage: www.monicamendes.info
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Sofia Catarina Mota
FCSH/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Levon Nurbekyan
ISTPhD Student, Mathematics
Levon is a first-year PhD student in mathematics at UT Austin | Portugal program. Nurbekyan has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in mathematics from the Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia. Levon’s specialization was Complex Analysis. His bachelor’s thesis was on approximation in the complex domain and the master’s thesis was on analytic continuation of the analytic element.
Now he has changed his specialization from Complex Analysis to PDEs.
Av. Risco Pais
1049-001 Lisboa
Portugal
Phone: +351 911760153
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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.
Filipe Pais
U.PortoPhD student, Digital Media
After finishing a degree on Sound and Image at ESAD.cr, Filipe worked as a multimedia designer at Ydreams and as assistant teacher at ESAD.cr and he's been developing new media projects since 2004. Following the knowledge produced by practical and theoretical research during the last years, his aim as a student on the Digital Media program, is to investigate interactive contemporary art forms mediated by technological systems. Through the understanding of the artist-artwork-spectator interconnection and the recognition of experience as the “raison d'être” of this triangle, his interdisciplinary investigation aims to develop an effective immaterial interaction model based on immersive qualities.
Homepage: http://www.la-neige-en-ete.net/filipe/
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Paulo Rosa
FCT/UNLPhD student, Digital Media
Paulo Rosa has a degree in Environmental Engineering and an MSc in the field of e-Participation both from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology - New University of Lisbon (Portugal). Before starting his PhD, he worked for 3 years at the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen (IPSC), European Commission - Joint Research Centre (EC-JRC). His work was focused on the research and development of innovative information and communication technologies; on the design and implementation of virtual citizen participatory methods; and on the development of online interactive applications to extended governance initiatives in areas of risk governance and sustainability.
His PhD will be focused on the research and development of new interactive surfaces based on subtracts such as paper, plastic, glass or textiles.
Homepage: http://paulorosa.no.sapo.pt
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Hugo Santos
UT AustinPost-Doctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics
Holding a PhD in Civil Engineering in the field of Applied and Computational Mechanics from the Instituto Superior Técnico, Santos has been involved mainly with the development of mathematical models for the analysis of nonlinear structural engineering problems. Pursuing a Post-Doc in Mathematics reflects his keen desire to bring mathematical methods into the field of Mechanics.
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