EfS UC
Energy for Sustainability Initiative
Lecturers and researchers
The lecturers at the University of Coimbra involved in the Energy for Sustainability initiative are currently the following:
| ADAI - Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics | |
| Adélio Manuel Rodrigues Gaspar | Buildings and Energy Systems | Thermal simulation of buildings | Energy Efficiency | Renewable energy |Thermal comfort and thermal stress |
| Almerindo Domingues Ferreira | Wind engineering | Fluid mechanics| Computational Fluid Mechanics (CFD) | Aeolian erosion | wind around buildings |
| António Manuel Gameiro Lopes | Fluid mechanics | Heat Transfer |
| António Manuel Mendes Raimundo | Heat and mass transfer | Energetic and economic efficiency of buildings and in industry | Computational methods in fluid dynamics and heat transfer | Human thermoregulation modeling |Thermal Comfort |
| António Rui de Almeida Figueiredo | Numerical modeling of flows with heat transfer | drying processes | performance of heat storage systems |
| Carla Abreu Rodrigues | Sustainable construction | buildings retrofits | life-cycle assessment of buildings and building components | life-cycle costing | streamlined life-cycle approaches |
| Divo Augusto Alegria Quintela | Thermal Comfort | Building Climatology | Air Pollution | Occupational Safety and Health |
| Domingos Xavier Filomeno Carlos Viegas | |
| Eugénio Rodrigues | Building Generative Design | Building Performance Simulation | Building Performance Optimization | Indoor Thermal Comfort | Energy Efficiency in Buildings |
| Fausto Seixas Freire | Industrial Ecology | Energy and environmental management | Life-cycle assessment | Bioenergy | Energy Systems |
| Joana Martins Faria de Bastos | |
| Jorge Campos Silva André | Energy Efficient Buildings | Cogeneration |
| José Joaquim da Costa | Numerical modeling of flows with heat and mass transfer | Solar adsorption refrigeration and energy storage | Aerodynamic Sealing | Phase Change Materials | Buildings and Energy Systems | Indoor Air Quality |
| José Manuel Baranda Moreira da Silva Ribeiro | Energy efficiency | Energy management | Cogeneration, microgeneration and microcogeneration |
| Luís Adriano Alves de Sousa Oliveira | |
| Manuel Carlos Gameiro da Silva | Indoor Environmental Quality | Energy Efficiency | Measurement Systems | Vehicle Testing | Engineering Education |
| Miguel Rosa Oliveira Panão | Thermal management systems | Atomization and sprays | Constructal Theory | Laser Diagnostics in Fluid Mechanics | Information Theory in Two-Phase Flow Data Analysis |
| Nelson Miguel Lopes Soares | Building technology and physics | Phase change materials (PCMs) | Numerical and experimental assessment of the heat transfer with solid-liquid phase change | Dynamic simulation of energy in buildings | Sustainable built environment |
| Ricardo António Lopes Mendes | Energy and sustainable development |
| Rita Pinheiro Garcia | Environmental management | Industrial Ecology | Life cycle sustainability assessment | Carbon, water, and environmental footprints | Bioenergy and bioproducts systems |
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| CeBER - Centre for Business and Economics Research | |
| Eduardo Jorge Gonçalves Barata | Ecological Economics | Energy | Regional Economics | Environmental Science |
| João Paulo Faria Oliveira e Costa | Decision support and optimization methodologies |
| Luís Guilherme Cruz | Ecologic Economics | Energy Policy | Input-Output Analysis | Environmental Science |Urban and Regional Science |
| Luís Cândido Dias | Operations research | Decision Analysis | Sustainability assessment | Stakeholder involvement | Group decision and negotiation |
| Maria João Teixeira Gomes Alves | Decision support and optimization methodologies |
| Maria Rita Vieira Martins | Energy - Economy studies |
| Patricia Pereira da Silva Vasconcelos Correia | Energy economics | Energy Markets | Finance | Sustainable energy systems | Investments Appraisal |
| Pedro Manuel Cortesão Godinho | Transportation - Economy studies | Investment Appraisal | Optimization | Finance |
| CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology | |
| Helena Freitas | Ecology| Biodiversity | Sustainability of ecosystems |
| Miguel Pardal | |
| CFisUC - Centro de Física da UC | |
| João Manuel de Sá Campos Gil | |
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| CES - Centre for Social Studies | |
| Adelino Gonçalves | Architecture and Urbanism |
| Alexandre Oliveira Tavares | |
| Ana Cordeiro Santos | |
| Carlos José C. Guerreiro Fortuna | Sustainable Urban Environment |
| Claudino Cristóvão Ferreira | Sustainable Urban Environment |
| João Paulo Vergueiro Monteiro de Sá Cardielos | Architecture | urban and landscape design | Urban planning | energy efficient cities | Buildings and technologies | urban regeneration | Nearly zero energy buildings | active and passive architecture |
| José António Oliveira Bandeirinha | Urban energy planning | Energy, sustainability and urban condition |
| José Manuel Mendes | |
| José M. de Andrade P. Pereira de Oliveira | Cognitive Psychology |
| Nancy Duxbury | |
| Paulo Peixoto | Sustainable Urban Environment |
| Rita Serra | |
| Stefania Barca | |
| Tiago Santos Pereira | |
| Tiago Castela | History of Architecture and Urbanism | Housing | Colonial Urbanism | Urban Geography | Theory of Global Urbanism |
| Vítor Manuel Bairrada Murtinho | Energy Efficient Buildings |
| CGeo - Geosciences Center | |
| Ana Paula Machado | Geothermal Energy | Urban energy planning |
| Mário Quinta Ferreira | Engineering Geology | Dams | Natural materials | Foundations |
| Nelson Edgar Viegas Rodrigues | Geothermal Energy | Concentrated Solar Power |
| Rui P. B. Pena dos Reis | Hydrocarbon Exploration | Carbon Capture and Storage |
| CINEICC - Center for Research in Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention | |
| Leonor Pais | Knowledge management | Decent work | Human resources management | Economy for the Common Good |
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| CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems | |
| Ana Maria Almeida | |
| Carlos Lisboa Bento | Sustainable Mobility |
| Edmundo Monteiro | IT engineering | Telecommunications networks | mobile networks | Information security |
| João Paulo Fernandes | Sustainable Software Engineering|Green Computing|Software Energy Efficiency |
| LAETA|Itecons - Institute for Research and Technological Development in Construction, Energy, Environment and Sustainability | |
| Ana Teresa Vaz Ferreira Ramos | Energy Efficient Buildings | Sustainable Construction | Buildings Rehabilitation |
| António José Barreto Tadeu | Applied Acoustics | Wave propagation | Thermo-hygrometric behaviour of construction elements | Fire safety | Energy Efficient Buildings |
| Catarina Lopes Serra | Energy performance of buildings | Thermal behaviour | Heat transfer | Materials and construction technologies |Infrared Thermography |
| Joana Dias Prata | |
| José António Raimundo Mendes da Silva | Building Technology and Rehabilitation | Construction Sustainability | Energy Efficient Buildings |
| Julieta Maria Pires António | Energy Efficient Buildings | Building Acoustics |
| Luís Manuel Cortesão Godinho | Acoustics | Wave propagation | Inspection techniques | Heat and mass transfer |
| Maria Isabel Morais Torres | Building Technology | Rehabilitation | Thermo-hygrometric behaviour of construction elements | Energy Efficient Buildings | Construction Sustainability |
| Nuno Albino Vieira Simões | Thermal behaviour of Buildings | Building Physics | Building inspection techniques | Materials and construction Technologies | Heat and mass transfer |
| Inês Simões | Building thermography | Thermal building | Building Physics | Building inspections techniques | Materials and construction technologies |
| CITTA - Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment | |
| Adelino Lopes Ferreira | Pavement Energy Harvest Systems | Sustainable Mobility | Transport Infrastructure Management Systems | Life Cycle Assessment of Transport Infrastructures | Transport Safety Management Systems |
| Álvaro Jorge da Maia Seco | Sustainable Mobility |
| Ana Maria César Bastos Silva | Sustainable Mobility | Carbon Capture and Storage |
| Anabela Salgueiro Narciso Ribeiro | Sustainable Mobility | Transport Planning | Spatial Planning | Modelling Approaches | ‘Transport Planning’ and ‘Land Use’ Interactions within ‘Sustainable Development’ perspective |
| António José Pais Antunes | Sustainable Mobility | Transport Planning | Spatial Planning | Operations Research |
| João Miguel Fonseca Bigotte | Innovation & Entrepreneurship | Spatial Planning | Transportation | Smart Cities | Operations Research |
| Paulo Alexandre Lopes de Figueiredo Coelho | Sustainable Mobility |
| Oxana Anatolievna Tchepel | Sustainable transport and urban environment | road transport emission modelling | urban air quality | population exposure modelling |
| CIEPQPF - Chemical Process Engineering and Forest Products Research Centre | |
| Abel Gomes Martins Ferreira | BioEnergy |
| António Garcia Portugal | Bioenergy | Biodiesel and energy from forest residues | Biomass | Biorefineries |
| Cristina Maria Santos Gaudêncio Baptista | BioEnergy | PSE- Process Systems Engineering | Chemical Reaction |
| Hermínio de C. de Sousa | "Greener”, sustainable, safe, biomimetic and environmentally-friendly processes for the development of added-value products, materials and applications | Extraction/separation processes from natural-origin products and from their residues | Materials and Biomaterials, polymers/biopolymers and hybrid/composite materials | Biomedical applications and drug delivery systems | Ionic liquids and their applications |
| Isabel Maria Almeida Fonseca | Bioenergy | Phase Equilibria (G/L solubility, VLE, LLE) | Treatment of Data |
| Jorge Manuel Santos Rocha | BioEnergy | Biochemical Engineering | Biorefinery | Biocatalysis |
| Lino de Oliveira Santos | Chemical Engineering |
| Margarida Quina | Mathematical modelling of processes | circular economy | waste management | soil remediation | composting and anaerobic digestion | phosphorus and metals separation and recovery |
| Maria da Graça Videira Sousa Carvalho | BioEnergy | Biorefinery | Pulp and Paper Technology | Chemical Engineering |
| Maria Graça Rasteiro | |
| Maria Margarida Lopes Figueiredo | BioEnergy |
| Marco Seabra dos Reis | Process Analytics | Industrial Data Science | Quality Technology | Statistical Machine Learning | Big Data |
| Natércia Cristina Pires Fernandes | BioEnergy |
| Nuno Manuel Clemente de Oliveira | Process Systems Engineering | Process Integration and Intensification | Chemical Process Design and Supervision | Biorefining |
| INESCC - Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers at Coimbra | |
| Álvaro Filipe Peixoto Cardoso de Oliveira Gomes | Load Simulation and Modelling | Load research, Load Management | Efficient Use of Energy Resources | Demand-Side Management | Evolutionary computation and Multiobjective Optimization |
| António Gomes Martins | Energy efficiency | Energy demand-side management | Energy policies for market transformation | Energy planning for sustainability | Smart networks and devices for intelligent use of energy resources |
| Carla Oliveira Henriques | Energy - Economy - Environment studies | Multiobjective Linear Programming Models | Uncertainty Handling techniques through interval programming | Input-Output Analysis |Renewable energy and energy efficiency |
| Carlos Alberto Henggeler de Carvalho Antunes | Energy efficiency | Operational Research | optimization| Energy Systems |
| Cidália Maria Parreira da Costa Fonte | Geospatial Information Science | Remote Sensing | Uncertainty and Accuracy Assessment| Volunteer Geographic Information |
| Gil Rito Gonçalves | Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing | Information extraction and analysis from Geospatial Technologies |
| Humberto Manuel Matos Jorge | Demand Response | Energy Efficiency | Smart Grids | Power Quality |
| Joana Maria Pina Cabral Matos Dias | Decision support and optimization methodologies |
| José Alfeu Almeida de Sá Marques | |
| José Paulo Elvas Duarte de Almeida | Geographic information science & technologies |
| José Paulo Lopes de Almeida | |
| João Carlos Namorado Clímaco | Multicriteria decision aiding | network analysis | location analysis | communication networks planning and management |
| João Manuel Coutinho Rodrigues | Urban/Land-use & Transportation Planning | Optimization, Systems Analysis | Facilities Location | Multicriteria Analysis in Civil / Environmental Engineering | Smartcities |
| Luís Miguel Pires Neves | Electrical Engineering - Energy Systems | Energy Systems and Policies | Decision Support Systems |
| Marta Alexandre dos Reis Lopes | Energy behaviours | behaviour modelling | sustainable energy systems | energy efficiency | smart grids | demand response | energy policies | environmental management | eco-efficiency | environmental impacts | sustainability |
| Nuno Eduardo da Cruz Simões | |
| Paulo José Gameiro Pereirinha | Electric vehicles and sustainable mobility | Electrical machines | Renewable energies | Finite Element Method in Electromagnetics |
| IJ - Law Institute | |
| Maria Alexandra Sousa Aragão | Environmental European Law | Environmental Portuguese Law | Sustainable Development Law | European Union Law |European Governance |
| Rui Moura Ramos | |
| Suzana Tavares da Silva | Energy law | Public law | Tax law |
| IPCDHS - Institute of Cognitive Psychology, Human and Social Development | |
| Armando Luis Dinis Mónica Oliveira | Energy and sustainable development | Experimental Cognitive Psychology | perception and attention | judgment & Decision Making |
| José Miguel de Andrade Pina Pereira de Oliveira | |
| Maria São João Breda | Psychology | Psychology for Sustainability | Consumer Pro-environmental behavior |
| ISR - Institute for Systems and Robotics | |
| Aníbal Traça de Carvalho Almeida | Energy Efficiency in Industry and Buildings | Distributed Generation and Renewable Energies | Energy Storage and Smart Grids | Industrial Automation | Field Robotics |
| Fernando José Teixeira Estêvão Ferreira | Engenharia Eletrotécnica |
| Joaquim Delgado | Vehicle to grid (V2G) |
| Paula Fonseca | |
| Pedro Soares Moura | Demand-Side Management | Demand Response | Renewable Energy | Energy Storage | Smart Grids |
| Other Entities | |
| Alcides J. S. Castilho Pereira, CITEUC | Geothermal Energy | Natural Radioactivity | Remote Sensing |
| Ana Lucia Marto Sargento, CIGS-INDEA-IPL | Regional Economy | Input-Output models |
| Luís J. P. Figueiredo Neves, CITEUC | Geothermal Energy | Natural Radioactivity | Raw Materials | Environment |GIS and Remote Sensing |
| Nuno Manuel Gameiro Rebelo dos Santos (CEFAGE, Univ. Évora) | Organizational cooperation | Leadership | Organizational intervention |
| Mário Jorge Teles Carvalhal, UC/ GESA | |
| Paulo Fernando Antunes dos Santos, ISISE | Thermal behaviour and energy efficiency in buildings | Sustainability and life cycle analysis on construction |
| Pedro Manuel Tavares Lopes de Andrade Saraiva | Innovation | Quality Management | Process Systems Engineering | New Product Development |Applied Statistics | Entrepreneurship |
| Sara Moreno Pires, GOVCOPP Univ. Aveiro | Indicators of sustainable development | local governance | sustainable cities | environmental public policies | public administration |
| Stuart Batterman, COHSE, Univ. do Michigan - Ann Arbor | |
| Ulisses Azeiteiro, CESAM, Univ. Aveiro | Climate Change | Adaptation to Climate Change | Climate Literacy | Sustainability |
