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... Rui Alexandre Pita Perdigão

Researcher

Rui Perdigão

Academic position: Researcher
Joining date: 03-01-2019
Roles in IT: Researcher
Thematic Line: Basic Sciences and Enabling Technologies
Group: Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies - Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72



Bio

Professor Rui Alexandre Pita Perdigão
* Chair Professor and Doctor in Physics, founding chair of the IUC in Physics of Complex Coevolutionary Systems and Fluid Dynamical Systems;
* Founding Head of the Institute for Complex System Science and of the Interuniversity Institute for Intelligence, Complexity and Security;
* Founder and CEO of Synergistic Manifolds and Quantum Aerospace Systems Intelligence, with pioneering quantum and post-quantum technologies on Earth and in Space;
* Editor at various scientific journals including EGU's Earth System Dynamics (ESD), Climate (as Section Editor-in-Chief), Frontiers in Physics (as Assoc. Ed.), and EBM at Geosciences, Prevention and Treatment of Natural Disasters, and Research in Ecology.
* Sits at scientific councils and advisory panels from diverse international research and funding institutions.
* Publishes and presents across diverse international scientific, pedagogic, and outreach venues;
* Develops, coordinates and lectures innovative STEM courses and interdisciplinary programs for higher education, from doctoral to technical schools, including exclusive nonlinear information physical, quantum and aerospace technologies to multi-hazard risk intelligence, complexity and security;
* Develops, coordinates and lectures innovative dedicated offerings for industry, military and security forces, from field operatives to top-level officials and institutions;
* Synergy builder among academia, research and industry. Nurtures knowledge advancement, multi-hazard awareness, education, policy and decision making across multi-sectorial consortia, panels and theatres of operation;
* From the lab to the field, develops and implements new interdisciplinary methods, technologies and products for Earth and Space systems intelligence, civil protection and security, including new information physical quantum and post-quantum technologies for sensing, cognition, computation and secure communication.


Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Universidade de Lisboa, 02-11-2010
  • Stochastic Dynamics
  • Nonlinear Dynamics
  • Information Theory
  • Information Physics
  • Complex System Sciences
  • Nonlinear Signal Processing
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Complexity and Sustainability: From System Dynamics to Coevolutionary Spacetimes, Chapter in, Introduction to Designing Environments, Springer, Cham, Cham, 2023
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Taking the Quantum Pulse of the Planet, Chapter in, Quantum Leaps in Complex System Sciences and Technologies, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2022
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Quantum Leaps in Computation and Prediction, Chapter in, Quantum Leaps in Complex System Sciences and Technologies, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2022
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Quantum Leaps in Gravitational and Electrodynamic Sensing, Chapter in, Quantum Leaps in Complex System Sciences and Technologies, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2022
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Paving Emerging Pathways in Frontier Physics, Chapter in, Quantum Leaps in Complex System Sciences and Technologies, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2022
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Beyond Quantum, Towards the Firmament of Complexity, Chapter in, Quantum Leaps in Complex System Sciences and Technologies, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2022
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, From Frontier Physics to the Environment and Society, Chapter in, Quantum Leaps in Complex System Sciences and Technologies, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2022
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Urban Adaptation - Insights from Information Physics and Complex System Dynamics, Chapter in, Informed Urban Environments. The Urban Book Series., Springer, Cham, Cham, Switzerland, 2022
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Enhancing Natural Hazard Early Warning Systems with Quantum Satellite Technologies, Chapter in, Quantum Technologies in the Earth and Space Sciences, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2021
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Sensing Earth System Dynamics with Quantum Gravitational Interferometry, Chapter in, Quantum Technologies in the Earth and Space Sciences, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2021
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Quantum Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in the Geophysical Sciences, Chapter in, Quantum Technologies in the Earth and Space Sciences, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2021
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Quantum Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Astrophysics and Cosmology, Chapter in, Quantum Technologies in the Earth and Space Sciences, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2021
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Designing Quantum Computational Models for the Earth and Space Sciences, Chapter in, Quantum Technologies in the Earth and Space Sciences, Synergistic Manifolds, Vienna, 2021
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, K. Schwemmlein, Socio-Environmental Food Systems Under Anthropogenic Climate Change: The Water-Energy-Food Nexus Perspective, Chapter in, Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Leal Filho W., Azul A., Brandli L., Lange Salvia A., Wall T., Springer, Cham, Heidelberg, 2020
  • K. Schwemmlein, R.A.P. Perdigão, Triadic Nexus Among Agriculture, Climate Change, and Poverty, Chapter in, No Poverty. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham, Springer, Cham, Heidelberg, 2020
  • N. Martins-Ferreira, R.A.P. Perdigão, Towards a Generalized Cayley–Dickson Construction through Involutive Dimagmas, Mathematics, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 996 - 996, March, 2024 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, High resolution spatial-temporal downscaling model for historical daily precipitation using INLA, international journal of global warming, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 161 - 161, May, 2023 | BibTex
  • E. Azmi, U. Ehret, S. Weijs, B. Ruddell, R.A.P. Perdigão, Technical note: “Bit by bit”: a practical and general approach for evaluating model computational complexity vs. model performance, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 1103 - 1115, March, 2021 | BibTex
  • J. Hall, R.A.P. Perdigão, Who is stirring the waters?, Science, Vol. 371, No. 6534, pp. 1096 - 1097, March, 2021 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Debates: Does Information Theory Provide a New Paradigm for Earth Science? Emerging Concepts and Pathways of Information Physics, Water Resources Research, Vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 1 - 13, February, 2020 | BibTex
  • G. Blöschl, J. Hall, A. Viglione, R.A.P. Perdigão, Changing climate both increases and decreases European river floods, Nature, Vol. 573, No. 7772, pp. 108 - 111, August, 2019 | BibTex
  • N. Najibi, N. Devineni, M. Lu, R.A.P. Perdigão, Coupled flow accumulation and atmospheric blocking govern flood duration, npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 1 - 19, June, 2019 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, Information Physical Quantum Technological Intelligence (IPQuTI) for Global High-Resolution Anticipatory Multi-Hazard Sensing, Modelling and Decision Support, European Geosciences Union EGU General Assembly EGU, Vienna, Austria, April, 2024 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Unfolding the Manifold Flavours of Causality, EGU European Geosciences Union General Assembly EGU, Vienna, Austria, April, 2024 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, Synergistic Nonlinear Quantum Wave Intelligence Networks (SyNQ-WIN): Theoretical Foundations and Geophysical Applications, American Geographical Union AGU Fall Meeting AGUFall, San Francisco, United States, December, 2023 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, Augmented Information Physical Systems Intelligence (AIPSI) for enhanced spatiotemporal early detection, attribution, prediction and decision support on multi-hazards, EGU European Geosciences Union General Assembly EGU, Vienna, Austria, April, 2023 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, Multi-hazard System Dynamic Intelligence for high-resolution spatiotemporal early detection, high-performance forecasting and decision support across multissectorial theatres of operation, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, Chicago, United States, December, 2022 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, Deciphering Hydroclimatic Complexity with Information Physics and Quantum Technologies, European Geosciences Union EGU General Assembly EGU, Vienna, Austria, April, 2022 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, Information Physical Complexity, Causality and Predictability across Coevolutionary Spacetimes: Theory and Hydro-Climatic Applications, EGU European Geosciences Union General Assembly EGU, Vienna, Austria, April, 2021 | BibTex
  • M. Ribau, R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, From rationalization to rationality: (In)sustainability of strategic narratives in science communication, ranging from climatic change to hydro-meteorological extremes, EGU European Geosciences Union General Assembly EGU, Vienna, Austria, April, 2021 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, J. Hall, Spatiotemporal Causality and Predictability Beyond Recurrence Collapse in Complex Coevolutionary Systems, American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco, United States, December, 2020 | BibTex
  • R.A.P. Perdigão, Information Physics: Closing Gaps, Opening Perspectives. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46337/200801, Summer School for Information Theory in the Earth Sciences (SITES), Flagstaff AZ, United States, August, 2020 | BibTex
  • Associate Editor, Frontiers in Physics, 24-06-2022 - 31-12-2030
  • Editorial Board, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 28-03-2022 - 31-12-2030
  • Editorial Board, Frontiers in Earth Science, 28-03-2022 - 31-12-2030
  • Editorial Board, Geosciences (Switzerland), 01-01-2020 - 31-12-2030
  • Editorial Board, Climate, 01-01-2019 - 31-12-2030
  • Editorial Board, Earth System Dynamics, 01-04-2016 - 31-12-2030