on 31-05-2020
In 2017, after completing my PhD, I have decided to stay in Switzerland where I joined the company HUBER+SUHNER as Antenna Engineer and Project Manager. (see more)
I joined IT in 2011 when I started my Master thesis under the supervision of both Prof. Jorge R. Costa and Prof. Carlos A. Fernandes. One year later, after finishing my Master degree at ISCTE-IUL, I started a Joint Doctoral programme between IST in Portugal and EPFL in Switzerland. On the Portuguese side, IT was my host institution where I kept working with the same supervisors. My research focused on the design of feed antennas to be integrated into mechanical beam steering ground terminals for satellite-on-the-move operating simultaneously at downlink and uplink Ka-bands. One of the highlights of my research was the successful fabrication of the antennas using an additive technique called Stereolithography in collaboration with the company SWISSto12 and its integration in the aforementioned systems. In 2017, after completing my PhD, I have decided to stay in Switzerland where I joined the company HUBER+SUHNER as Antenna Engineer and Project Manager. My daily tasks vary from providing RF solutions for new antenna products targeting different markets (e.g.: Rail+Road, Small Cells and In-Building Coverage) to leading R&D antenna projects from concept to series production with direct supervision and coordination of timeline, cost and interdisciplinary international teams. The jump into the industry world in a global company has been so far a great learning experience.
on 31-05-2020
After working for a Singaporean travel startup, I moved to the Toronto-based healthcare startup HomeMD, where I was offered the role of Chief Technology Officer. (see more)
I joined the ISCTE-IUL IT branch in 2010 when I started doing research under Anders Christensen and Sancho Oliveira as part of my Master thesis. After completing the thesis in 2012, I started working on a PhD, also in ISCTE-IUL and with the same supervisors. My research focused on automatically synthesizing control for robotic systems (mostly swarms of robots) using evolutionary computation. The highlight of my research was the design and development of a novel aquatic swarm robotic platform and its control system. Our demonstration of the platform in a real and uncontrolled environment was the first of its kind for a swarm robotic system with automatically synthesized control. Apart from research, I was also a Teaching Assistant ISCTE-IUL and an Invited Assistant Professor in Universidade Europeia. I concluded the PhD in 2016 and briefly held a Postdoctoral position in IT, but ultimately decided to transition from academia to the industry. Having worked in the industry while undergoing my BSc and MSc, it was natural for me to jump back into it, and I started working as a developer in the startup world. After working for a Singaporean travel startup, I moved to the Toronto-based healthcare startup HomeMD, where I was offered the role of Chief Technology Officer. I now focus on leading, implementing, and scaling our technology efforts with an international and geographically distributed technical team.