Paulo Marques was born in Portugal in 1968. He received a degree in Physics (1991), a MSc in Optoelectronics and Lasers (1995) and a PhD in Physics (2000), all from the University of Porto, Portugal. From Nov. 1999 he was appointed as Teaching Assistant in University of Trás-os-...

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...

I have received my master’s degree in Physical Engineering from the Faculty of Sciences of University of Porto (FCUP) in October 2016. My master thesis, “Optical Sensors Based on Fabry-Perot Interferometry”, was conducted in collaboration between FCUP and INESC-TEC, at the Cente...

The primary objective of the e-LOG project is to create a methodology to assess the environmental impacts of different retail strategies, taking into consideration the origin, mode of transport and the destination of products. The research will be focused on transport in a strict sense. The estimate...

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...

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...

João M. Maia received the MSc degree in Physics Engineering from the University of Porto, Portugal in 2016. He is currently a PhD Physics student in the same instituion.