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João P. Ribau is a National Representative & Contact Point Horizon Europe – Industry & European Innovation Council (EIC) at ANI - Agência Nacional de Inovação. With previous experience as Head of an R&D unit - Intelligent and Digital Systems at ISQ - and as a researcher, some previous activities include: - R&D team management and coordination - Project managing, reporting, proposal writing in several National and International programmes (e.g. MIT, FCT, P2020, H2020, BBI, ESA, LIFE, PRIMA). - Partnership and consortium establishment, with industry, research institutes, universities, or companies. - Research in industry4.0, digital solutions, modelling, decision and optimization, machine learning, IoT solutions, circular-economy, water-energy nexus, life cycle analysis, alternative energies and transports. - Publication of scientific papers, and conference communications, and brokerage events. - MSc/PhD student supervision He is the author of over 20 publications in top scientific journals, one book chapter, more than 10 publications in international conferences, and 25 communications in international conferences. Previously he was a Post-Doc researcher and an Invited Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mechanical Engineering (IDMEC) of Técnico Lisboa (IST), University of Lisbon. Received his Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering from IST, in 2014, with work in life cycle analysis and optimization of alternative road vehicles. In 2009, he received his M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering, from IST, with work in analysis and simulation of electric and hydrogen consumption hybrid and electric vehicles.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
João Ribau

Citation names

  • Ribau, João

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D311-0F0C-D8E2
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1018-6908
Researcher Id
B-7694-2014
Scopus Author Id
44261708900

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Japanese Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2014
Concluded
 Doutoramento em Engenharia Mecânica - PhD in Mechanical Engineering (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Powertrain optimization of road vehicles using alternative technologies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito bom com distinção - Pass with distinction
2011
Concluded
 Estágio/Intership - Life cycle analysis of conventional vehicles, battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell hybrid vehicles (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
Intelligent Energy Ltd, United Kingdom
"Fuel Cell Hybrid Taxi Life Cycle Analysis Study" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 não se aplica
2009
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica - M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Análise de consumo eléctrico e de hidrogénio em veículos plug-in puramente eléctricos e híbridos eléctricos com Pilha de combustível" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2017/05/02 - 2019/01/01 Contracted Researcher (Research) Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Portugal
2014/12/20 - 2017/05/01 Postdoc (Research) Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
2012/12/17 - 2014/12/15 Researcher (Research) Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016 - 2017 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/12/30 - Current Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/01/01 - 2020/12/29 Organic Unit Sub-director Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2013/05 - 2014/05 ESIBITS - Evaluation of the Sustainability of Industrial Biohydrogen production by microalgae, and Integration in taxi/bus Transport Systems
128930
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2009/04 - 2013/03 ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED SYSTEMS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLES
83778
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
2009/04 - 2012/06 Power demand estimation and power system impacts resulting of fleet penetration of electric/plug-in vehicles
GRANT_NUMBER: 83672
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.

Contract

Designation Funders
2020 - 2021 SAGRESSMART - Smart Support for Geological Prospection at Seabed based in Space Assets
Reference: 1801500
Researcher
ESA Centre for Earth Observation, Italy
2018/09/01 - 2020/09/01 LUBSYSTECH - Sistema de gestão da lubrificação baseado na análise de condição dos lubrificantes e dos equipamentos
Projeto Nº: 33673
Researcher
Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Ongoing
2019/10/01 - 2020/03/31 InteliCROP - Space assets & artificial intelligence for enhanced crop management
Ref. AP 16/2019
Principal investigator
Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento em Ciência e Tecnologia
Concluded
2015 - 2020 Life SWSS - Smart Water Supply Systems
LIFE14 ENV/PT/000508
Researcher
Instituto de Soldadura e Qualidade, Portugal
 Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
2017 - 2018 TRUST - Twinning for Industrial Sustainability
Grant agreement no 810764
Researcher
European Commission, Belgium
2015 - 2018 WaterWatt - Improvement of energy efficiency in industrial water circuits using gamification for online self-assessment, benchmarking and economic decision support
Grant agreement No 695820
Researcher
European Commission, Belgium
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Ribau, J.P.; Sousa, J.M.C.; Silva, C.M.. Plug-in hybrid vehicle powertrain design optimization: Energy consumption and cost. 2013.
    10.1007/978-3-642-33777-2_49
Book chapter
  1. Ribau, João. "Roadmap to decarburization and energy consumption minimization of the road transport sector: Biohydrogen production from several microalgae species and integration in optimized bus configurations.". 2015.
Conference paper
  1. Ribau, J.P.; Silva, C.M.. "Simulation of an urban bus fuelled with several biodiesel blends: Advantages and disadvantages on the efficiency and emissions". 2017.
  2. Cassiano, D.R.; Ribau, J.; Cavalcante, F.S.A.; Oliveira, M.L.M.; Silva, C.M.. "On-board Monitoring and Simulation of Flex Fuel Vehicles in Brazil". 2016.
    10.1016/j.trpro.2016.05.253
  3. Bravo, J.; Ribau, J.; Silva, C.. "The influences of energy storage and energy management strategies on fuel consumption of a fuel cell hybrid vehicle". 2012.
    10.3182/20121023-3-FR-4025.00042
  4. Baptista, P.; Ribau, J.; Bravo, J.; Silva, C.; Adcock, P.; Kells, A.. "Fuel cell hybrid taxi well-to-wheel life-cycle analysis". 2010.
Journal article
  1. Ribau, João. "Novel approach for connecting real driving emissions to the European vehicle laboratorial certification test procedure". Environmental Science and Pollution Research (2019): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-06484-1.
    10.1007/s11356-019-06484-1
  2. Loução, P.O.; Ribau, J.P.; Ferreira, A.F.. "Life cycle and decision analysis of electricity production from biomass – Portugal case study". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 108 (2019): 452-480. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85063992796&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.rser.2019.03.063
  3. Luna, T.; Ribau, J.; Figueiredo, D.; Alves, R.. "Improving energy efficiency in water supply systems with pump scheduling optimization". Journal of Cleaner Production 213 (2019): 342-356. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85059560365&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.12.190
  4. João P. Ribau; Susana M. Vieira; Carla M. Silva. "Selecting sustainable electric bus powertrains using multipreference evolutionary algorithms". International Journal of Sustainable Transportation (2018): 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15568318.2017.1418464.
    10.1080/15568318.2017.1418464
  5. António Castel-Branco; João Ribau; Carla Silva. "Taxi Fleet Renewal in Cities with Improved Hybrid Powertrains: Life Cycle and Sensitivity Analysis in Lisbon Case Study". Energies 8 9 (2015): 9509-9540. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en8099509.
    10.3390/en8099509
  6. João P. Ribau; João M.C. Sousa; Carla M. Silva. "Reducing the carbon footprint of urban bus fleets using multi-objective optimization". Energy 93 (2015): 1089-1104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.09.112.
    10.1016/j.energy.2015.09.112
  7. Ribau, J.; Viegas, R.; Angelino, A.; Moutinho, A.; Silva, C.. "A new offline optimization approach for designing a fuel cell hybrid bus". Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 42 (2014): 14-27. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896094384&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.trc.2014.02.012
  8. Ribau, J.P.; Silva, C.M.; Sousa, J.M.C.. "Efficiency, cost and life cycle CO2 optimization of fuel cell hybrid and plug-in hybrid urban buses". Applied Energy 129 (2014): 320-335. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84901771495&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.05.015
  9. Ribau, João. "Life cycle analysis and environmental effect of electric vehicles market evolution in Portugal". International Journal of Energy and Environment (2014): http://www.ijee.ieefoundation.org/vol5/issue5/IJEE_01_v5n5.pdf.
  10. Melo, Paulo; Ribau, João; Silva, Carla. "Urban Bus Fleet Conversion to Hybrid Fuel Cell Optimal Powertrains". Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 111 (2014): 692⿿701-692⿿701. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.103.
    10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.103
  11. Ribau, J.P.; Sousa, J.M.C.; Silva, C.. "Multi-objective optimization of fuel cell hybrid vehicle powertrain design - Cost and energy". SAE Technical Papers 6 (2013): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84890371993&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.4271/2013-24-0082
  12. Ribau, J.; Silva, C.; Brito, F.P.; Martins, J.. "Analysis of four-stroke, Wankel, and microturbine based range extenders for electric vehicles". Energy Conversion and Management 58 (2012): 120-133. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84857025034&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.enconman.2012.01.011
  13. Baptista, P.; Ribau, J.; Bravo, J.; Silva, C.; Adcock, P.; Kells, A.. "Fuel cell hybrid taxi life cycle analysis". Energy Policy 39 9 (2011): 4683-4691. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-79960731526&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.enpol.2011.06.064
  14. Ferreira, A.F.; Ribau, J.P.; Silva, C.M.. "Energy consumption and CO2 emissions of potato peel and sugarcane biohydrogen production pathways, applied to Portuguese road transportation". International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 36 21 (2011): 13547-13558. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-83055194507&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.08.008
  15. Baptista, P.; Ribau, J.; Bravo, J.; Silva, C.; Adcock, P.; Kells, A.. "Fuel cell hybrid taxi well-to-wheel life-cycle analysis". World Electric Vehicle Journal 4 1 (2011): 798-803. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84867961834&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
  16. João Ribau. "Electric and hydrogen consumption analysis in plug-in road vehicles". International Journal of Energy and Environment (2010): http://www.ijee.ieefoundation.org/vol1/issue2/IJEE_02_v1n2.pdf.
Activities

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2017 - 2017 Brazilian ethanol for transport - Life cycle inventories and guidelines
Supervisor
 Engenharia Mecânica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Multi/Many-Objective Optimization in Feature Selection
Co-supervisor
 Engenharia Mecânica (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Editorial Board Member - MDPI Journal of Applied Sciences
Member
 Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute AG, Switzerland
2019 - Current Section Board Member - MDPI Journal of Applied Sciences
Member
 Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute AG, Switzerland