Prof. Dr. Eduardo Medeiros

Project Coordinator

Eduardo Medeiros is a Geography Professor and Researcher in DINAMIA'CET-IUL, Lisbon University, Portugal. He has a Ph.D. in Geography - Regional and Urban Planning, and has more than 20 published papers in international journals, eight books and nine book chapters. He is a DG REGIO expert and a Horizon 2020 evaluator. He has coordinated several international policy evaluation projects. He was invited as a project adviser and to write reports by DG REGIO. He was already invited to be a keynote speaker by several International Universities and EU institutions (European Commission and Committee of the Regions). He is part of the scientific and editorial committee of some journals and a peer reviewer of more than 20 international journals.
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Prof. Dr. Vasco Gonçalves

Project Co-Coordinator

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Prof. Dr. José Miguel Sales

Project Supervisor

José Miguel Sales Dias holds a BSc (1985) in Electrical Engineering, a MSc (1989) in Electrical and Computer Engineering (both from IST-UTL, Portugal) and a PhD (1998) in Information Sciences and Technology, major in Computer Graphics and Multimedia (ISCTE-IUL, Portugal), where he is an Associate Professor with Habilitation, teaching and conducting research in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented reality, Ambient Assisted Living, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design Thinking and Operating Systems. Invited Associate Professor at NOVA IMS teaching Human-Computer Interaction in Information Systems degree. Coordinates the Digital Living Spaces group of ISTAR-IUL, an R&D unit of ISCTE-IUL (http://istar.iscte-iul.pt/index.php/Digital_Living_Spaces). From early 2017, holds a position as a member of the Board of Directors of ADENE (www.adenet.pt), the Portuguese Energy Agency. Has been involved in entrepreneurship initiatives. Past Director of the first European R&D Centre in Speech and natural HCI technologies of Microsoft Corporation, in Portugal (Microsoft Language Development Center, MLDC), from 2005, and during 11 years, where collaborated closely with global product groups (USA, China, Europe) and local teams of marketing, sales and services. Regularly commissioned by the EU and Portuguese Ministry of Economy for R&D project evaluations and reviews. Author of 1 patent, author, co-author or editor of 15 scientific books or journal editions, 17 indexed journal papers, 38 indexed book chapters, 171 other publications, workshops or keynotes in international conferences. Since 1992 participated or participates in 33 International R&D projects (ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS, TELEMATICS, TEN-IBC, EUREKA, INTERREG, FP5 IST-IPS, FP6 IST, ESA, Marie Curie, AAL, ACP, Erasmus+), and 19 Portuguese (FCT, QREN, NITEC, POSC, POCTI, POSI, ICPME, TIT, POAT). Principal Investigator of 15. R&D funding: 1998-2016 he raised €4,280,167.51 (European), plus €2.165.653 (National) to ISCTE-IUL; 2009 to 2015, he raised €3,041,572.19 to Microsoft. In 2020 sourced €98,000 Euros for NOVA IMS and €42,000 Euros for NOVA FCT. The funds collected for various institutions thus total €12,320,764 Euro over 28 years, giving an average of €440,027. Obtained 7 scientific prizes. Member of ACM SIGGRAPH, Eurographics, ISCA and IEEE; editorial boards of several journals; several IPCs of National and International conferences in Computer Graphics, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Speech, Accessibility and Ambient Assisted Living. Past President of ADETTI - ISCTE-IUL R&D center. Past Vice-president of the GPCG, Eurographics Portuguese Chapter. Born in December 1st 1961, happy father of two girls and one boy.
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Dr. Ricardo Pinto

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Prof. Dra. Paula Castro

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Paula Castro is Full Professor of Psychology at ISCTE-IUL & a researcher at CIS-iscte. She holds a PhD in social and environmental psychology (ISCTE, 2000), and a degree in psychology (Univ-Lisboa,1987). Her research looks at the processes of meaning-making and communication involved in the reception of new laws and public policies - mainly environmental ones - developing a social psychology of legal innovation. She has mainly investigated how new laws and regulations governing climate action, biodiversity conservation, public participation or urban regeneration are received by the public (e.g., contested, accepted, negotiated) and the implications of this reception for social change. The studies, both quantitative and qualitative, often focus on (the asymmetric) relations between public and scientific experts/decision makers. Other areas of interest are people-place relations, local knowledge, social memory and the history of social psychological theories.
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Dr. Bernardo Valente

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