José Pinto is a Researcher and Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering from Porto University. He has received his Diploma Degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Sciences and a MSc Degree in Computer Engineering at the School of Engineering (both from Porto University). He started conducting research in Autonomous Vehicles back in … Continued
Mafalda Baptista is a postdoc researcher at CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto) working on microbial ecology of aquatic systems and extreme environments. She got her PhD in Environmental Sciences and Technology from the University of Porto. Since then she has established a number of collaborations with research institutions, namely … Continued
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
