Short-term Research Internships at UT Austin  – Beneficiaries & Hosts

Support for research mobility between Portugal and The University of Texas at Austin is one of the Program’s biggest hallmarks.

To continue this legacy, the UT Austin Portugal Program ran a Call for Expressions of Interest for Short-Term Research Internships at UT Austin between April 27 and June 13, for faculty, researchers, or Master’s and PhD students affiliated with a Higher Education Institution, R&D centre or an R&D-performing company established in Portugal to cross the Atlantic and spend two to three months at the University of Texas at Austin to undertake R&D activities.

The program received 29 Expressions of Interest from all Program Areas, with many high-level candidates scoring well beyond the funding threshold. However, only 10 vacancies could be awarded, all of which came to be filled up.

Below you can find the 10 selected beneficiaries that will be developing their research work in one of the best public universities in the United States and immersing themselves in the exhilarating culture of UT Austin’s campus between September and December 2022. Each beneficiary will be hosted by a top-notch expert from UT Austin, which you can also get to know below.

Meet the Beneficiaries

Dalinda Eusébio

Nanotechnologies

Estela Carvalho

Nanotechnologies

Fábio Ferreira

Nanotechnologies

Hugo Silva

Space-Earth Interactions

João Duarte

Medical Physics

Jorge Silva

Advanced Computing

Maria Gonçalves

Medical Physics

Mariana Miranda

Advanced Computing

Mário Vieira

Space-Earth Interactions

Tiago Ribeiro

Nanotechnologies

Meet the Hosts

Douglas Befroy

Director of the Biomedical Imaging Center
Biomedical Imaging Center, UT Austin

Radu Marculescu

Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

James Tunnell

Associate Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

John Cazes

Director Of High-Performance Computing
Texas Advanced Computing Center, UT Austin

Emily Porter

Assistant Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

Dragan Djurdjanovic

Accenture Endowed Professorship in Manufacturing Systems Engineering
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

Adrianne Rosales

Assistant Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

Filippo Mangolini

Assistant Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

Zhengrong Cui

Professor of Molecular Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery
College of Pharmacy, UT Austin

Moriba K. Jah

Associate Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

Brian Belardi

Assistant Professor
Cockrell School of Engineering, UT Austin

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