Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Carla Gonçalves
- Date of birth
- 1992/02/01
- Gender
- Female
Citation names
- Gonçalves, Carla
- Carla Gonçalves
- C. Gonçalves
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 951C-A14F-9E61
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5684-9933
Email addresses
- carla.s.goncalves@inesctec.pt (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Applied Mathematics
- Exact Sciences - Mathematics - Statistics and Probability
- Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2016/09/26 - 2021/07/14
Concluded
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Applied Mathematics (Doctorate)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Renewable Energy Forecasting - Extreme Quantiles, Data Privacy and Monetization (https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/bitstream/10216/135580/2/487920.pdf)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved |
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2016/09/26 - 2017/09/19
Concluded
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Advanced Topics in Applied Mathematics (Doctoral Degree (completion of coursework))
Major in Applied mathematics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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18 |
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2013/09/16 - 2015/12/11
Concluded
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Mathematical Engineering (Master's Degree)
Major in Applied mathematics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Modelação de quotas de mercado" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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17 |
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2010/09/13 - 2013/06/28
Concluded
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Mathematics (Licenciate Degree)
Major in Matemática Aplicada
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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16 |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/08/16 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal |
| 2015/10/12 - 2021/08/14 | Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2026/01/01 - Current | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal | ||
| 2024/09/01 - 2025/02/28 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal | ||
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/02/28 | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal | ||
| 2021/04/19 - 2021/07/31 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/09/01 - 2025/06/30 | Alliance for the Energy Transition (ATE)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2022/11/03 - 2023/06/30 | Decarbonize
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/12/01 - Current | EMPEDOFLEX- EMpowering Positive Energy District Optimal FLEXibility provision
CETP/0007/2024
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2025/11/01 - Current | PVSmile
101235645
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency |
| 2025/01/01 - Current | AI for REAL-world NETwork operation
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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Horizon 2020
Ongoing
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| 2023/01/01 - 2026/06/30 | ATE: Aliança para a transição energética
PG06402
Researcher
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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| 2023/06/01 - 2025/12/31 | GREEN.DAT.AI - Energy-efficient AI-ready Data Spaces |
Concluded
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| 2023/01/01 - 2025/06/30 | ENERSHARE - European commoN EneRgy dataSpace framework enabling data sHaring-driven Across- and beyond- eneRgy sErvices |
Concluded
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| 2019/11/01 - 2023/04/30 | Smart4RES - Next Generation Modelling and Forecasting of Variable Renewable Generation for Large-scale Integration in Energy Systems and Markets |
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Conference abstract |
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| Conference paper |
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| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Intellectual property
| Patent |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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|---|---|---|
| 2024/12/03 | Designing Incentives for Collaborative Forecasting | DaSSWeb - Data Science and Statistics Webinar
Faculty of Economy University of Porto (FEP) (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2024/11/20 | Creating Incentives for Collaborative Forecasting: A Path to Better Decisions | Presentation for PhD students in a Curricular Unit “Digitalization in Electricity
Systems”
EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), online (Switzerland)
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| 2024/05/15 | Data Markets and Sharing in the Energy Sector | Power & Energy Webinar Series
INESC TEC (Porto (online - international), Portugal)
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| 2023/06/25 | Tutorial on data value and markets |
School of Electrical Engineering Belgrade – University of Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia)
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| 2023/04/14 | Privacy-preserving data-sharing for energy forecasting | Final conference Smart4RES EU project
(Paris, France)
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| 2020/10/16 | Data market for collaborative renewable energy forecasting | 40th International Symposium on Forecasting
International Institute of Forecasters (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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| 2020/09/14 | Data Science Applied to the Electricity Market and Renewable Energy Forecasting | Power & Energy Webinar Series
INESC TEC (Porto (online - international), Portugal)
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| 2020/07/01 | Forecasting conditional extreme quantiles for wind energy | Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC)
INESC TEC (Porto)
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| 2017/06/26 | Feature extraction techniques that improve wind power probabilistic forecasting | Wind Energy Science Conference 2017, Mini Symposia "Wind Power Forecasting"
Denmark Technical University (DTU) (Lyngby, Denmark)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2025/10/01 - Current | Spatial-temporal modelling of the electrical load in Portugal
Co-supervisor
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Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2025/10/01 - 2026/07/29 | Adaptive Ensemble Forecasting for Renewable Energy
Co-supervisor
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Ciência de Dados (Data Science) (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2025/10/01 - 2026/07/27 | Probabilistic Spatiotemporal Downscaling of Climate Data via Conditional Diffusion
Models
Supervisor
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Estatística Computacional e Análise de Dados (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2024/09/16 - 2025/10/13 | Incentives for data and knowledge sharing in the energy sector
Supervisor
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Modelação, Análise de Dados e Sistemas de Apoio à Decisão (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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| 2024/09/23 - 2025/07/16 | Privacy and Profit: Monetization Strategies for Privacy-Preserving Forecasting with
Blockchain Support
Co-supervisor of José Luís Rodrigues
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Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2022/10/03 - 2023/11/20 | Data markets for collaborative forecasting in the energy sector
Supervisor
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Ciência de Dados (Data Science) (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2022/02/01 - 2022/12/13 | Operational efficiency in the detection of TCA in natural and champagne corks: a statistical
analysis
Co-supervisor
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Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2026/03/05 - 2026/03/06 | Data Visualisation workshop: we learn how to select chart types, use color strategically,
and adapt figures for posters, journal articles, and conference talks.
Workshop
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Data Vizualization
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB, Sweden
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| 2026/02/18 - 2026/02/18 | Workshop: Utilização de escape rooms em sala de aula
Workshop
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Workshop: Utilização de escape rooms em sala de aula
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
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| 2024/05/27 - 2024/05/27 | Data sharing in the energy sector: the Data Market concept
Round table
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The Shape of Energy to Come
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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| 2024/04/16 - 2024/04/16 | Visionary event
Other
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Challenges and Opportunities of Foundational Models and Generative AI for Science
and Society
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, France
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| 2021/09/15 - 2021/09/15 | Training for REN (Portuguese Transmission System Operator). Main role: explanation
and illustration of multivariate and probabilistic power forecasting.
Workshop
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CampusREN
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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| 2018/07/03 - 2018/07/03 | Training for REN (Portuguese Transmission System Operator). Main role: explanation
and illustration of multivariate and probabilistic power forecasting.
Workshop
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CampusREN
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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| 2017/07/07 - 2017/07/07 | Training for REN (Portuguese Transmission System Operator). Main role: explanation
and illustration of multivariate and probabilistic power forecasting.
Workshop
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CampusREN
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2026/07/28 | Severity and extreme events in sleep apnea
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Eduardo Gonçalves (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2026/07/23 | TempoPFN-morph: generating data for a foundational forecasting model using time series
morphing
President of the jury
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Miguel Nogueira (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2026/07/16 | Uncertainty-Driven Cascaded Framework for OCTA Segmentation
President of the jury
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Tomás Ribeiro (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2026/07/16 | Anomaly Detection in Image Acquisition Systems for Industrial Computer Vision
President of the jury
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Inês Almeida (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2026/07/16 | Positional Bias in Object Detection Models
President of the jury
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Rodrigo Moucho (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2025/12/12 | Privacy and confidentiality preserving data sharing methods for the optimisation of
multi-actor energy systems
Thesis Member
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Lukas Stippel (PhD)
Mines Paris - PSL, France
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| 2024/07/19 | Ensuring Time Series Data Privacy via Complex Networks
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Jaime Vale (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
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| 2022/12/12 | Conformal Prediction for Reliable Machine Learning: A Review with Contributions
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Martim Sousa (Master)
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/02/01 - Current | IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (1949-3053) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| 2021/01/07 - Current | Machine Learning (1573-0565) | Elsevier |
| 2019/09/06 - Current | IEEE Transactions on Power Systems (1558-0679) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| 2019/06/04 - Current | International Journal of Forecasting | Elsevier |
| 2018/08/05 - Current | IEEE Power Engineering Letters (1558-1705) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| 2018/03/15 - Current | IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (1949-3037) | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/06/01 - Current | Young European Associated Researchers network (YEAR) - board member | Board member |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/08 - 2025/04/07 | Collaborative Forecasting Platform for ELIA. A platform designed to promote and incentivize ensemble forecasting for offshore wind energy. Forecasters are compensated based on the accuracy and value of their contributions to the ensemble forecast. | Elia Transmission Belgium, Belgium |
| 2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31 | Contract with EDP - Gestão da Produção de Energia, S.A.: Understanding the main factors that influence the electricity prices and the mobilization of reserves. | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal EDP - Gestão da Produção de Energia, S.A, Portugal |
| 2017/09/01 - 2018/09/30 | Contract with RTE France (transmission system operator): Development of computation methods and tools in order to assess the advantages of using uncertainty models (that estimate conditional quantiles) to predict the security of electrical systems in case of overloading in the branches. | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Reseau de Transport d'Electricite, France |
| 2016/05/01 - 2017/03/30 | Contract with EDP Renewables: Development of probabilistic wind power forecast methods based on quantile regression in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) and weather ensembles. | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal EDP Renewables, Spain |
| 2015/10/12 - 2016/04/30 | Contract with REN (transmission system operator): Development of statistical decision tools to estimate: a) the operational reserve level of the electrical system, b) the maximum import net transfer capacity levels, that guarantees that a certain risk is not surpassed. | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal Redes Energéticas Nacionais SGPS SA, Portugal |
| 2014/09/01 - 2015/02/28 | M.Sc. internship in market-share modeling based on promotional campaigns and data mining techniques. | SONAE, Portugal |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/02/16 - 2026/06/04 | Artificial Intelligence (L.EIC029) | Engenharia Informática e Computação | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| 2026/02/16 - 2026/06/04 | Natural Language Processing (M.IA004) | Inteligência Artificial | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| 2024/09/01 - 2025/02/28 | Signals and Systems (L.EEC015) | Engenharia Eletrotécnica e de Computadores (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| 2022/09/01 - 2023/02/28 | Computation (L.EC003) | Engenharia Civil (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| 2021/04/19 - 2021/07/31 | Statistical Methods (EMG0020) - theoretical classes | Engenharia de Minas e Geo-Ambiente (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
| 2021/04/19 - 2021/07/31 | Statistical Methods (EMG0020) - theoretical classes | Engenharia do Ambiente (Licenciate Degree) | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal |
Evaluation committee
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | Funding entity | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024/02/28 - 2024/05/07 | National member of evaluation/accreditation committee for a new study cycle (Bachelor's
Degree in Data Analysis and Engineering).
Evaluator
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A3ES - Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior, Portugal | |
| 2021/05/17 - 2021/11/25 | Student member in evaluation/accreditation committees of study cycles, masters and
doctorates, in the area of Mathematics.
Evaluator
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A3ES - Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior, Portugal |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/11/26 | Project by research institute Inesc Tec gives electrical grid operators a tool to reward the most accurate predictions of electrical energy production. The first client of the Predico platform, still in the testing phase, is out there: it is the Belgian Elia | Expresso |
| 2022/09/28 | Interview about the work developed at Smart4RES which led to the nomination for the EUSEW2022 Award. | Edifícios e Energia |
| 2021/07/12 | Business model for start-up based on data monetization. | Expresso |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| 2022/09/07 - 2022/09/07 | Negócios em Português (TSF) | Incentive mechanisms for collaborative renewable energy forecasting |
| 2022/08/31 - 2022/08/31 | Manhã Informativa (Porto Canal) | Incentive mechanisms for energy data sharing (related to the EUSEW2022 Awards nomination) |
Mentoring / Tutoring
| Topic | Student name | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025/01/27 - 2025/06/27 | Clustering of Energy Consumption Time Series Using Network Topological Characteristics | Daniel Costa |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/06/28 - 2024/06/28 | Privacy and confidentiality preserving data-sharing methods for the optimisation of multi-actor energy systems (2nd-year PhD Thesis Progress Report Evaluation) | Mines Paris - PSL, France |
| 2023/06/09 - 2023/06/09 | Privacy and confidentiality preserving data-sharing methods for the optimisation of multi-actor energy systems (1st-year PhD Thesis Progress Report Evaluation) | Mines Paris - PSL, France |
Scientific expedition
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/04/01 - 2019/09/30 | Part of the doctoral work was developed in collaboration with Professor Pierre Pinson from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). This collaboration led to a six-month external stay at DTU (Lyngby, Denmark). | Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark |
Distinctions
Award
| 2025 | Vestas Award 2025 - FEUP (I supervised the winning MSc thesis)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2022 | Finalist in the European Sustainable Energy Awards - Young Energy Trailblazer Category
European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency, Belgium
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| 2022 | EDP Labelec Merit Award
EDP, Portugal
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| 2021 | Finalist (top 5) - EIT Jumpstarter 2021
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), Belgium
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| 2016 | PhD Research Grant from the Doctoral Program (FCT grant PD/BD/128189/2016)
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
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Other distinction
| 2018 | Limelight Series (monthly distinction of INESC TEC employees)
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Tecnologia e Ciência, Portugal
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