Zara Mirmalek is a social scientist who conducts ethnographic research among work communities for the study of human-technology relationships and remote presence. She has conducted studies in the domains of space exploration and ocean exploration among scientists working with robots on Mars (NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers mission) and in the ocean (submarine volcanoes in the … Continued
Manuel Ribeiro is a Software Development Engineer with 3 years experience in software development, a AUV operator and a RPAS pilot with building, testing, operating and piloting experience. Ribeiro holds a Master’s degree in Informatics Engineering with a specialization in Software Engineering from Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. His Master’s thesis focused … Continued
Renato Mendes is currently a post-doctoral researcher as of a joint project between CIIMAR in University of Porto and CESAM in the University of Aveiro. His research interests focus mostly on coastal oceanography, using multi-platform data, such as observations, remote sensing, and numerical models. Recently, his studies have addressed the use of networked autonomous vehicle … Continued
Trent Lukaczyk received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in June 2015. As part of the Aerospace Design Lab he contributed to several projects, including the design of NASA’s next-generation supersonic passenger jet, the development of an open-source aerodynamics simulation code called SU2, and the development of an open-source aircraft design code called SUAVE. In parallel … Continued
João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa is a Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from Porto University in Portugal. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Electrical Engineering, both awarded by the University of Porto. His research interests include autonomous underwater, surface and air vehicles, planning and execution control for networked … Continued
Dr. Alexander Chekalyuk is an optical scientist with a strong technological background, including development and oceanographic and environmental applications of the advanced analytical techniques and instrumentation (www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderchekalyuk). Since 1994, he has been working at the lead US research centers and universities and, such as Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, NASA Goddard Space … Continued
Francisco Lopez-Castejon is a postdoctoral research associate at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, where he focuses on the use of numerical models and underwater vehicles to address new challenges in oceanography. He has a degree in Oceanography from the University of Cadiz (Spain), a Masters in “Informatics and mathematics applied to science and engineering” … Continued
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
