Apresentação Pessoal

1 Academic Degrees
Aggregation in Mechanical Engineering (2009) by the University of Porto, PhD (1989) by the University of London (Imperial College), and M.Sc. and B.Sc. (1981 and 1983) by the University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico).

2 Teaching and supervision of students and grant holders

Teaching covers the areas of Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics and supervised more than 100 students and research fellows: 12 post-doctoral, 14 PhD, and 77 MSc students or equivalent.

3 Research and results

He has participated in 65 projects: 45 research projects with competitive public funding (40) and private direct negotiation (5) and 20 consultancy and university cooperation projects.
     Among the 40 projects with public funding, mention should be made of the two ongoing (AptWind and LIKE) for training PhD holders for the wind industry (European Commission) and the NEWA - New European Wind Atlas, under which the Perdig˜ao-2017 field experiment was carried out. Of the five privately funded projects, the one underway aims to validate wind resource prospection methodology by comparing experimental results at sites in Australia, North and South America, and Europe.
     The privately funded research projects are the uninterrupted collaboration of more than 20 years with leading companies in the so-called wind industry. The 'knowledge' and joint intellectual property of FEUP and the contracting companies and has its disclosure limited by a contractual clause. The spin-off company Prewind and the software VENTOS®, protected through a registered trademark, are products of these projects.

3.1 Software library: VENTOS®
VENTOS® is the library designation (about 155000 lines of code in 400 files, with 1500 subroutines and functions) for computational simulation of atmospheric flow over complex orography, under continuous development, and used by companies in daily activities of wind resource assessment and wind farm design and management.

3.2 Perdigão-2017 database
Perdigao-2017 (the largest field experiment ever conducted, as reported in Nature magazine) was the culmination of over ten years of interventions and lectures (in diverse venues and forums) on the need for a large field experiment to support the development and validation of computational simulation of atmospheric runoff over complex terrain.
     The Perdigao-2017 database, 4TB of experimental data, at https://perdigao.fe.up.pt is a legacy (lifetime over 30 years) for future generations and a reference for studies in 'areas beyond wind energy, such as forest fires, environment and the atmospheric sciences. On the impact and importance of the experiment in June 2017, there were a total of 45 scientific dissemination interventions: i.e. videos, visits, special sessions in scientific meetings, news in the national and international media (written press, television, radio and Internet), press notes and articles in scientific publications.

3.3 Publications
He was the editor of 9 books (all in Springer publishing) and special editions of 3 scientific journals dedicated to Perdigão-2017. He is the author or co-author of more than 200 technical-scientific texts: 51 articles, 107 conference papers, and 19 consultancy reports.
     The documents in the bases Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and Research Gate vary between 70 and 140 (Web of Science and Google Scholar), as do the total citations (between 886 to 1913), and indexes: "h" (between 15 and 21) and "i10" (between 19 to 33).

3.4 Conferences
Organized about 32 conferences and scientific meetings, fundamental for the knowledge and interaction with the scientific communities related to computing and fluid mechanics and turbulence, which resulted in the edition and publication of books.

4 Evaluation of articles, applications and research programs

Referee of papers in 27 scientific journals and more than 20 conferences, having coordinated the whole process of admission, review and edition of 9 books with selected conference papers.
     Evaluator of applications and research programs funded by national (FCT) and international (Europe, USA, Denmark and Canada) public institutions, such as the European Commission, DOE's- Department of Energy (Merit Review Guidance of joint scientific annual programs of DOE National Laboratories, Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, Sandia, Lawrence Livermore, NREL, NOAA, NCAR and Pacific Northwest); ESF - European Science Foundation; Eureka-Eurostars and IFD -Innovation Fund Denmark, Denmark; PRACE - Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe; and NSERCC - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada CFACS - Canadian Foundation For Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, Canada).
     Member of various committees to define regional, national and European research strategies on high-performance computing and wind energy and the creation of international standards.