Curriculum Vitae
Pedro Maria Fialho Duraes Reynolds Brandão
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Pedro Maria Fialho Duraes Reynolds Brandão
- Date of birth
- 1991/10/07
- Gender
- Male
Citation names
- Brandao, PR
- Brandao, PMFDR
- Reynolds-Brandão, P.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- EB11-FC7E-2FE4
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-0817-609X
- Google Scholar ID
- Pedro Reynolds Brandao
Email addresses
- pedro.brandao@ibet.pt (Professional)
- p.brandao@campus.fct.unl.pt (Professional)
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| French | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2021/09/01 - 2025/09/01
Ongoing
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Engenharia Química e Bioquímica (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
"Development of sensors for online monitoring of microalgae production based on machine learning and 2D fluorescence maps" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2011/09/01 - 2018/07/02
Concluded
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Engenharia Biológica (Mestrado integrado)
Major in Engenharia de Bioprocessos
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
"Productivity enhancement of microalgae by co-cultivation with plant-growth-promoting-bacteria in airlift photobioreactor" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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16 |
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2017/02/01 - 2018/02/01
Concluded
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Mobilidade de âmbito académico - Engenharia Biológica (Master)
Major in Engenharia de Bioprocessos
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Brazil
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19 |
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2009/09/01 - 2011/05/01
Attended
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Ciências Militares Navais-Engenheiros Navais, ramo de Armas e Electrónica (Licenciatura)
Escola Naval, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2021/04/01 - 2021/08/31 | Researcher (Research) | Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal |
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal | ||
| 2019/05/02 - 2021/04/01 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal |
| Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Química, Portugal | ||
| 2018/09/01 - 2019/04/12 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal |
| 2016/06/17 - 2016/12/11 | Research Trainee (Research) | Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2017/05/01 - 2017/08/10 | Invited Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil |
Other Careers
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2018/02/01 - 2018/09/01 | Assistente Operacional (Assistente Operacional) | Products Reynolds Brand, Spain |
| 2016/04/04 - 2016/06/01 | Assistente Técnico (Assistente Técnico) | 4Tune Engineering Ltd., Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/03/29 - 2024/03/29 | Phyco-u-Biome: Understanding and harnessing the power of the microbiome aiming the maximization of microalgae productivity
PTDC/BAA-BIO/1262/2020
Invited Scientist Fellow
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2021/04/01 - 2021/08/31 | MULTI-STR3AM: Towards industrial-scale microalgae cultivation in Europe
887227
Research Fellow
Instituto de Biologia Experimental e Tecnológica, Portugal
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Ongoing
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| 2019/05/01 - 2021/04/01 | Life EconSens Aquamonitrix
LAQV/BI/002/2019
Research Fellow
Rede de Química e Tecnologia Laboratório Associado para a Química Verde, Portugal
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Concluded
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| 2018/09 - 2019/04 | MEDICI - Microfluidic Device for Automated and Contactless Magnetomixing in Ionic Liquid Media
PTDC/FIS-PLA/31055/2017
Research Fellow
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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Other
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/06/17 | Learning from spectroscopy: a tool for online multi-parameter monitoring of microalgae cultures | CPACT Webinar
Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT) (United Kingdom)
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| 2023/12 | Monitoring productivity and predicting crash of Phaedactylum tricornutum cultures using spectroscopy and machine learning | Microbiotec23
Universidade da Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal)
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| 2023/09/08 | Monitoring productivity and predicting crash of phaeodactylum tricornutum cultures using spectroscopy and machine learning | 1st International Conference of the Portuguese Association for Cellular Agriculture
INL – International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2022/11/25 | Machine learning with spectroscopy: monitoring productivity and status of Phaeodactylum tricornutum cultures | MicroSummit 2022
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2021/11/26 | Learning from fluorescence: online multiparameter monitoring of a microalgae culture | Microbiotec21
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2021/03/24 - 2021/03/24 | This conference was organised by the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix consortium – T.E Laboratories Ltd., Universidad Católica San
Antonio de Murcia, KREAN, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Kemira Oyj. The conference
was in English. It is a close to market Life project which is ending on 31 March 2021. The final project workshop had presentations
on the results from the project as well as presentations from other European projects with applications for the outputs from
the Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix project.
Conference
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Life Ecosens Aquamonitrix Project Workshop - From prototype to commercialisation and everything in between
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain |
| 2020/03/20 - 2020/03/27 | Deep Learning Specialization: studying the foundational concept of neural networks and deep learning. Objectives: build, train,
and apply fully connected deep neural networks; implement efficient (vectorized) neural networks; identify key parameters
in a neural network’s architecture
Workshop
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
DeepLearning.AI, United States
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| 2019/10/07 - 2019/11/25 | This course provides a broad introduction to machine learning, datamining, and statistical pattern recognition. Topics include:
(i) Supervised learning (parametric/non-parametric algorithms, support vector machines, kernels, neural networks). (ii) Unsupervised
learning (clustering, dimensionality reduction, recommender systems, deep learning). (iii) Best practices in machine learning
(bias/variance theory; innovation process in machine learning and AI).
Workshop
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Machine Learning - Cousera
Stanford University, United States
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| 2019/09/25 - 2019/09/27 | The objectives of this course were to:
i) Provide detailed knowledge about the benefits and challenges of hybrid modeling, such that the participant is able to
judge case by case the merits of a hybrid model application; and
ii) Enable the participant to independently develop and apply hybrid models.
Workshop
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4th Hybrid Modeling Summer School
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
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| 2019/03/18 - 2019/03/22 | SBE IST is a week full of lectures from investigators and companies in the bioengineering area, defying challenges, workshops
and international guests, job fair, among others.
Workshop
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V Semana da Bioengenharia – IST
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
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| 2019/01/16 - 2019/01/18 | O principal objetivo desta escola é compartilhar conhecimentos sobre a aplicação da nanotecnologia em terapias e aplicações
diagnósticas no contexto médico
Workshop
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Nanotecnologia aplicada à Terapia e Diagnóstico
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, Portugal
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| 2018/07/09 - 2018/07/13 | The course consisted in several theoretical and practical lectures about micro-rheology,
microfabrication and numerical modelling of microfluidics; the lectures were given by several leading researchers in
the area.
Workshop
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Summer School of Complex Fluid-Flows in Microfluidics
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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| 2018/03/15 - 2018/03/24 | The course objective was to obtain an overview of the theoretical and experimental background, concerning the application
of ionizing radiation and radionuclides in industry and medicine.
Workshop
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Application of Ionizing Radiation
Ceské vysoké ucení technické v Praze, Czech Republic
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| 2016/11/11 - 2016/11/18 | The course intended to show both theoretically and experimentally the promises of nanotechnologies in terms of
real world applications, and the technical difficulties to attain these goals. It was delivered by researchers from the
French leading laboratories in nanotechnologies.
Workshop
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Nanotechnologies
École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France
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| 2016/03/14 - 2016/03/18 | In this 30-hour course I learned about numerical methods for modelling bioprocesses (e.g.
computational fluid dynamics). The course combined the basic theory of modelling bioprocesses from
environmental engineering with practical tutorials and hands-on experience on computer-based
applications.
Workshop
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Numerical Modelling in Environmental Biotechnology
Technische Universiteit Delft Afdeling Biotechnologie, Netherlands
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Distinctions
Award
| 2022 | Best Oral Communication (Academia-industry partnerships) at the "MicroSummit 2022"
NZYTech Lda, Portugal
Sociedade Portuguesa de Microbiologia, Portugal |