Apresentação Pessoal

Sonia Isabel Silva Pinto graduated in Chemical Engineering (Pre-Bologna) in July 2006, at Engineering Faculty of University of Porto (FEUP). She received Graduation Awards: - Award “Eng. António de Almeida” for the graduate student in Chemical Engineering (FEUP) with the highest classification (17 out of 20) finished in 2005/2006; -Award “Eng. Cristiano P. Spratley” for the graduate student in Chemical Engineering or Electrical and Computers Engineering (FEUP) with the highest classification finished in 2005/2006.

Sónia Pinto started the Ph.D. in October 2006 at FEUP, Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Mechanical Engineering, Transport Phenomena Research Center. The Ph.D. Grant was funded by “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (SFRH / BD / 27821 / 2006) - 1^st place in Portugal within the Chemical Engineering domain. The thesis has a strong domain on Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Programming and Numerical Methods Applied to Fluid Mechanics and Transport Phenomena such as Mass Transfer and Heat Transfer. Sónia Pinto finished the Ph.D. in July 2011.

Then, Sónia Pinto won a Post-Doctoral Grant, in Mechanical Engineering domain, also funded by “Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia” (SFRH / BPD / 78262 / 2011). She started the Post-Doctoral Program in January 2012 and finished in August 2017, also in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, Computational Programming, and Numerical Methods, applied to Biomechanics.

At September 2014, the Math Section of the Mechanical Engineering Department of FEUP invited Sónia Pinto to be an Invited Assistant Professor. Since March 2022, she is an Assistant Professor in the same Department and Section. She is teaching "Mathematical Analysis I", "Mathematical Analysis II", "Mathematical Analysis III" and "Numerical Analysis" in the Master in Mechanical Engineering and in the Master in Engineering and Industrial Management. Also, she teaches "Computer Programming I" and "Dissertation" for students of Mechanical Engineering Master. Moreover, she has been teaching "Mathematical Analysis" and "Complements of Mathematics" in the Master in Informatics and Computing Engineering; "Computational Fluid Mechanics" in the Master in Computational Mechanics; and "Laboratory Projects" and "Dissertation" in the Master in Biomedical Engineering. At international level, she was invited by University of Maryland Baltimore County (USA) and McGill University (Canada) to give lectures and workshops on “Computational Fluid Mechanics applied to Hemodynamics”.

The research interests of Sónia Pinto are in the Computational Domain (Computational Programming, Numerical Methods, Mathematical Analysis, Artificial Intelligence) applied to Biomechanics (main research topic) and Thermal Energy (recent research topic), being an R&D member of the research group CETRIB-MAT of LAETA – interface institute: INEGI. She publishes several international (indexed) papers, per year, and organizes several symposiums for congresses. She has been supervisor of several students in their dissertations, in academic and industrial environment, examiner of several national and international theses, and reviewer of several international (indexed) papers. Among many other activities, she has also participated in many national and international R&D projects as principal investigator, co-coordinator and researcher; and she has been an expert evaluator and consultant of international R&D projects funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020) and by specific countries (Canada, Hungary, Republic of Serbia, Slovakia).