Curriculum Vitae
CLAUDIO ALEXANDRE GUERRA SILVA GOMES DA PIEDADE
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- CLAUDIO ALEXANDRE GUERRA SILVA GOMES DA PIEDADE
Citation names
- Piedade, Claudio Alexandre
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6515-6BCE-9F76
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0746-5893
- AuthenticusID
- R-00K-EPZ
- Google Scholar ID
- 2A5iwSwAAAAJ&hl
Websites
- https://capiedade.github.io (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Pure Mathematics
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Italian | Elementary (A2) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
| Japanese | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2017/09 - 2022/04/26
Concluded
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Applied Mathematics (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
"Faithful permutation representations of C-groups" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved with merit and distinction |
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2013/09 - 2016/11
Concluded
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Biochemistry (Mestrado)
Major in Biochemistry
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
""How to disassemble a Virus Capsid: a computational approach"" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19/20 |
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2010/09 - 2013/07/02
Concluded
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Biochemistry (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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18/20 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2025/12/01 - Current | Postdoc (Research) | Université Libre de Bruxelles Département de Mathématique, Belgium |
| 2022/11/15 - 2025/11/14 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal | ||
| 2017/02 - 2017/05 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal |
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal | ||
| 2015/09 - 2016/11 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química e Bioquímica, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/06/01 - 2022/04/26 | Faithful permutation representations of C-groups
PD/BD/142888/2018
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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| 2017/02 - 2017/05 | Biocatalysis for tackling lignin recalcitrance
PTDC/BBBEBB/0122/2014
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2012/09 - 2013/09 | Os pirilampos do mar- estudo dos processos bioquímicos e moleculares associados à emissão de luz em eucariotas unicelulares
Researcher
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Oceanografia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Biossistemas e Ciências Integrativas, Portugal |
Universidade de Lisboa Fundação Amadeu Dias Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2025/12/01 - Current | Quantum symmetries, machine learning and combinatorics
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Post-doc
Université Libre de Bruxelles Département de Mathématique, Belgium
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Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Ongoing
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| 2025/01/01 - 2025/11/14 | Centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto
UID/00144/2025
Post-doc
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2022/11/15 - 2024/12/31 | Centre of Mathematics of the University of Porto
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Porto Centro de Matemática, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2018/06/01 - 2022/04/26 | Center for Research and Development in Mathematics and Applications
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Matemática e Aplicações, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
| 2015/09 - 2016/11 | The architecture of life: Probing the quaternary structure of virus capsids by native mass spectrometry
Master Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Química e Bioquímica, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia |
Outputs
Publications
| Book chapter |
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| Conference paper |
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| Conference poster |
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| Journal article |
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| Online resource |
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| Preprint |
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/11 | Coset geometries – from groups to geometry | Seminário do Centro de Investigação em Matemática e Aplicações (CIMA)
Universidade de Aveiro (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2025/10 | Coset geometries – from polytopes to geometric products | Seminário de Álgebra, Combinatória e Teoria dos Números (CMUP)
Centro de Matemática da Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2025/09 | Merging Coset Geometries: from group operations to fusing geometries | Buildings 2025
UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
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| 2025/07 | Merging Coset Geometries: from group operations to fusing geometries | Summer JIM Days 2025
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2025/07 | Merging Coset Geometries: Split extension and Twisting | Conference on Theoretical and Computational Algebra 2025
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2025/06 | Merging Coset Geometries: Amalgamation, HNN-extension and Twisting | Graph Embeddings and Maps on Surfaces 2025
Slovak Academy of Sciences; Comenius University; Slovak University of Technology (Trencianske Teplice, Slovakia)
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| 2024/07 | Halving Hypertopes: A geometric approach | Conference on Theoretical and Computational Algebra 2024
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2024/03 | CoreFreeSub – a package to compute faithful transitive permutation representations of groups | GAP Days Spring 2024
RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
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| 2024/02 | On the halving of leaf hypertopes | Symmetry of Discrete Objects 2024
University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand)
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| 2024/02 | Faithful transitive permutation representations of abstract regular polytopes | Mathematics Postgraduate Student Seminar (University of Auckland)
University of Auckland (Auckland, New Zealand)
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| 2024/02 | Faithful transitive permutation representations of C-groups | Stochastic Topology and its Applications Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences (Leipzig, Germany)
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| 2023/07/07 | Core-free Degrees of Toroidal Maps | Queer and Trans Mathematicians in Combinatorics 2023
Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2023/07 | Core-free Degrees of Toroidal Maps | The 13th Combinatorics Days
Departamento de Matemática, Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
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| 2023/06 | Core-free degrees of Toroidal Chiral (Hyper)Maps | 10th Slovenian Conference on Graph Theory
University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (Kranjska Gora, Slovenia)
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| 2021 | Faithful transitive permutation representations of highly symmetric structures | 1st Annual Meeting of DMat-UA PhD Students
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2020 | CPR Graphs of Highly Symmetric Hypertopes | Research Summit 2020
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2019 | Locally toroidal hypertopes | 9th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics, Rogla
University of Primorska; Slovenian Discrete and Applied Mathematics Society (Rogla, Slovenia)
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| 2019 | Possible degrees of Toroidal Regular Maps | 9th Slovenian International Conference on Graph Theory
IMFM - Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics (Bled, Slovenia)
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| 2019 | Possible degrees of toroidal regular maps of type {4,4} and {3,6} | Séminaires de Algèbre et Combinatoire
Université Libre de Bruxelles (Bruxelas, Belgium)
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| 2018 | Mathematical tools for solving the problem of Viral Capsid Disassembly | Workshop on Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Optimization
Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
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| 2017 | How to disassemble a virus capsid - a computational approach | Chemistry and Biochemistry Postgraduate Students Meeting
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/12/01 - 2026/07/17 | Local organiser of the conference "Symmetries in Graphs, Maps and Polytopes (SIGMAP) 2026" (2025/12/31 - 2026/07/17)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Université Libre de Bruxelles Département de Mathématique, Belgium |
| 2024/02 - 2024/06/29 | Member of the organisation committee of "The 14th Combinatoric Days", representing the Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade
do Porto (2024/06/27 - 2024/06/29)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa NOVAMath, Portugal |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2024/06/27 - 2024/06/29 | Participation on the conference "The 14th Combinatorics Days" where I was a member of the Organisation committee.
Conference
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The 14th Combinatorics Days
Universidade Nova de Lisboa NOVAMath, Portugal
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| 2024/05/20 - 2024/05/20 | Participation in the information session dedicated to Call Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships
Call, organised by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Other
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellwoships 2024 – Info session
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2023/08/10 - 2023/08/11 | Attended conference
Conference
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Early Career Symposium for the Topology, Actions, and Symmetry
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
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| 2023/05/04 - 2023/05/04 | INFO DAY HORIZON EUROPE - From research to innovation: ERC / EIC and Widera funding.
Opportunities to develop better ideas in research and innovation: the European Research and Innovation Councils (ERC and EIC)
and HOP ON
Other
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Da investigação à inovação: Financiamento ERC / EIC e Widera
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| 2023/02/09 - 2023/02/11 | Faculty open days for high school students, where I gave a lecture regarding the research and employment perspectives in Mathematics
Other
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Dias Abertos FCUP 2023
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2018/10/21 - 2018/10/27 | Research Visit to Universidade de Aveiro by Dimitri Leemans and Asia Weiss, to work on Locally Toroidal Hypertopes
Meeting
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Research Visit to Universidade de Aveiro by Dimitri Leemans and Asia Weiss
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2025/02 - 2025/07 | Real Analysis II (Teaching of exercise-solving classes (TPs); Hold office hours and answering student queries; Propose and Grade tests’ and exams’ exercises) | Matemática (Licenciatura) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
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| 2022 - 2022 | UAU - Perguntas sem limites | Math - Ciência Fundamental |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2023 - Current | Electronic Journal of Combinatorics | |
| 2022 - Current | AMS Mathematical Reviews | |
| 2024/02/14 - 2024/08/19 | Innovations in Incidence Geometries (2640-7345) | |
| 2021/10/05 - 2021/10/13 | Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal (20010370) | Elsevier |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/02/26 - 2024/03/01 | Invitation by Philippe Tranchida to the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, for a week, to work on hypertopes and give a seminar | Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Germany |
| 2019/01 - 2019/01 | Invitation by Dimitri Leemans to the Université Libre de Bruxelles, for a week, to develop computational tools for GAP (to study polytope families) and to give a lecture. | Université Libre de Bruxelles Département de Mathématique, Belgium |
Distinctions
Award
| 2019 | Financial support (accommodation) from the organizers of the "9th PhD Summer School in Discrete Mathematics" to participate
and give an oral communication
Univerza na Primorskem Fakulteta za matematiko naravoslovje in informacijske tehnologije, Slovenia
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| 2018 | PhD scholarship from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, part of the Doctoral Program in Applied Mathematics Minho-Aveiro-Porto
(MAP-PDMA)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2017 | Research grant (as a MSc) from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, Portugal, to work on the project PTDC/BBBEBB/0122/2014
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| 2013 | Merit scholarship for undergraduate studies at Universidade de Lisboa for the university year 2010/2011
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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| 2012 | Award of best first-year average at Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa for the university year 2010/2011
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2012 | Research Incentive scholarship for the scientific project "Os Pirilampos do Mar - Estudo de processos bioquímicos e moleculares
associados à emissão de luz"
Fundação Amadeu Dias, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Other distinction
| 2022 | PhD thesis approved with distinction and merit
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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| 2020 | Honourable mention for best oral communication presented at the "Research Summit 2020"
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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