Maria Paola Tomasino graduated in Environmental Biology at University of Bari, Italy and obtained her PhD at Tuscia University, Viterbo, Italy. She had a post-doc position at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples, where she starts to study marine microbes. She applied molecular methods, in particular DNA metabarcoding, to characterize phytoplankton community and species abundance … Continued
Dr. Catarina Magalhães is a microbial ecology researcher of CIIMAR, Assistant Professor at the University of Porto and member of the Portuguese Polar Program coordination committee. Her major research is on understanding how microbial derived machineries interact and to identify the mechanisms regulating their operation. She focuses her studies in investigating the N-biogeochemistry and microbial … Continued
Paulo Dias is an electrical and computer engineer who conducts research on unmanned systems operation on the maritime domain. The focus of the work is on planning, control, and operation of heterogeneous teams of autonomous robotic systems, on the air, surface, and underwater. Portugal’s tradition of bold ocean discoveries and exploration that began in the … Continued
Maria Costa is a Robotics Engineer in a robotics research laboratory (LSTS). She is a software developer (onboard software – control, guidance and navigation) and is also a part of both the AUV and UAS field operational teams (where she is the main UAS Operator: fixed-wing, multi-rotor and vtol vehicles). During the last four years … Continued
Keila Lima is a software engineer at LSTS-FEUP, after being collaborating with the laboratory during her master thesis. The thesis subject included the coordination and command of autonomous vehicles using the Dolphin DSL integrated in LSTS software toolchain. She has been recently making developments on the software toolchain and also working on the field as … Continued
Kanna Rajan is Professor of Autonomous Systems at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and a Visiting Professor at the Univ. of Porto, Portugal. His focus has been on building complex systems in software for decision-making for real world environments including for the harsh confines of space and the deep ocean. He was a … Continued
João Pereira is a senior research Engineer at the Underwater Systems and Technology Laboratory (LSTS) at the University of Porto and he’s head of the LSTS’s hardware division. He earned a Masters degree (2009) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto and soon joined the LSTS with the purpose of working with challenging robotic … Continued
Javier Gilabert is an Associate Professor of Oceanography at the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena – UPCT in Spain. He has spent most of his career at the interplay between biological, physical and chemical oceanography and now with autonomous underwater robotics. His research is currently focused on better understand plankton functioning through the light of chemical … Continued
Bruno Loureiro is an Electronic Engineer responsible for the development of dataloggers for the area of marine biology in the scope of the project “MarInfo – Integrated Platform for Marine Data Analysis and Acquisition.” His degree was in Electronic Engineering and Computer Networks in 2008, and recently he obtained a masters in software, which comes … Continued
Dr. Salvador Jorgensen is a marine ecologist and holds the position of Senior Research Scientist in the Conservation Research department at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Jorgensen’s research focuses on the ecology, migration and population dynamics of pelagic fishes and elasmobranchs. His recent interests lie in understanding the distribution, abundance, and movement of ocean species and … Continued
