[end of year 2019]

I am currently a lecturer in electrical engineering at University of Porto.  I have successfully achieved the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from The University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) in 2004, after receiving the Licenciate's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Porto in 2000.  I joined the University of Porto in January 2007.  Since then, I have been developing research and teaching activities in electrical power engineering and renewable energy. I was appointed as a Permanent Lecturer in June 2008 at the Power System Group in the Department of Electrical Engineering.

My research interests are generally in Electric Power Systems with specific focus on Power System Protection (e.g. IEC 61850, Smart Grid, Protection Testing, Automation, Control), more recently on HVDC and the interaction of the HVDC on the AC Grid operation and High Voltage. 

In the past six years, I have successfully won 8 multi-year research project grants (out of six applications) and their topics are all related to this subject.  It has been involved more than 20 partners (9 universities and 11 industrial organizations) with collective expertise on the manufacturing, design, operation, and control of multi-terminal DC grids. The overall budget only for FEUP is 608k€ and I am the principal investigator.  

Since I joined University of Porto, I co-founded the Power System Protection Group and Laboratory where technical questions are addressed. It enabled students, researchers and I to evaluate challenges and discuss most up-to-date solutions concerning power system protection. Since last year I was invited by the director of the High Voltage Laboratory to became Deputy Managing Director. Currently I supervise 4 doctoral students and and already supervised 4 to successfully finished their PhD thesis.  I also supervise in total 88 MSc students since 2008, with an average of more than 8 students per year.  

With regards to the pedagogical philosophy, I believe that close university-industry collaboration with a problem-solving approach would lead to a win-win-win situation, where it complements academic teaching to students, brings most up-to-date challenges to researchers, as well as increases access to up-to-date research output and discoveries for the industry. In the past years I have established collaborative relationships with the market leaders in the Portuguese energy market, including EFACEC, EDP Distribuição and REN.  For the majority of my MSc students, the research questions of their work were established in real scenarios.  The quality of their research output was highly regarded. This can be seen from the fact that 3 dissertations have been recognized by awards from REN, ABB and APREN; the collaborated corporates often offer permanent job positions to the students; and the findings were disseminated in internationally recognized conferences.