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

Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n

4200-465 Porto

PORTUGAL

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