Water pollution is a severe worldwide problem that urgently requires development of novel sensing concepts allowing for monitoring contaminants at very low concentrations.The ambitious aim of the SAFE WATER project is to design, implement and validate a new portable optical instrument, for in situ a...

Areas of research: - Knowledge discovery Supervised learning    Multiple predictive models Applied knowledge discovery - Intelligent transportation systems Planning and operations of publi...

Susana Silva is graduated in Applied Physics from the University of Porto, Portugal. She received the Ph.D. degree in Physics at the University of Porto, Portugal, on optical fiber sensors for refractive index and gas sensing. She is currently an R&D Researcher at the Center for Applied Photo...

My main work includes developing integrated solutions towards optimization of femto-etching, direct writing and micromachining using femtosecond based mechanisms which will enable the fabrication of the next-generation compact-size, low-power and intelligent sensing devices. In parallel tasks ass...

Orlando Frazão graduated in Physics Engineering (Optoelectronics and Electronics) from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Porto, Portugal, focusing on optical fiber sensors based on interferometry and nonlinear effects. From 1997 to 1...

Hélder P. Oliveira Hélder P. Oliveira was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1980. He graduated in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2004, received the M.Sc. degree in Automation, Instrumentation and Control in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2013 at the Faculty of...

Improved design of an existing benchmark to evaluate different data processing tools on scalable DataFrames; Implementation of new advanced features of the existing benchmark that allow the evaluation and analysis of trade-offs between performance and energy efficiency in distributed environments w...

With the growing relevance of distributed renewable energy sources (DRES) in the generation mix and the increasingly pro-active demand for electricity, power systems and their mode of operation need to evolve. The goal of the evolvDSO was to define future roles of distribution system operators (DSOs...