CV


Studies

  •   2004 - [ ] PhD researcher, affiliated to the CCNR - Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, UK
  •   2003 - 2004 Informal attendance of the EASy - Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, MSci course, SciTech School, University of Sussex
  •   2001 - Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon. Master degree. Thesis title: Cognitive Models in Evolutionary Robotics. Approved with the highest mark (Muito bom por unanimidade) awarded through external public examination.
  •   1999 - Studies in the Applied Artificial Intelligence Master degree programme of the Department of Informatics (two six months seminars: Artificial Neural Networks and Artificial Life)
  •   1999 - École Polytéchnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL) Course(25 hours): Behaviour-Based and Biological Inspired Robotics
  •   1998 - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon. Studies in the Philosophy of Mind Masters programme (two six months seminars: Epistemology and Philosophy of Knowledge)
  •   1993 - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon. One year post-graduation course on Sciences of Education, with professional internship oriented towards the Special Didactics of Philosophy
  •   1992 - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon. Licenciatura (four years degree) in Philosophy

Research

  •   2004 - [ ] CCNR - Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, PhD researcher. Keywords: morphodynamics and cognitive activity, trade-off between morphology and control, dynamical systems approach to life and cognition
  •   2000 - 2003 Centria - Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Science and Technology, New University of Lisbon. Author and researcher in the project K-Sophia, from Evolutionary Robotics to Natural Cognition using four physical khepera robots to perform a collective task. Project sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

Publications

  •   List of publications here

Participation in Scientific Meetings

  •   Member of the Programme Committee of IEEE CEC 2009 - Special Session on Evolutionary Robotics, Trondheim, Norway, 18th-21st of May, 2009.
  •   Member of the Programme Committee of Alife XI, Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Winchester, UK, 5-8 August, 2008.
  •   Organizing Committee (Chairman) of ECAL2007, Ninth European Conference on Artificial Life, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007, 10-14.
  •   Cognitio 2006, Beyond the brain: embodied, situated & distributed cognition, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada, August 2006, 19-21.
  •   Member of the Programme Committee of Alife X, Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, June 2006, 3-7.
  •   Alife X, Tenth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, June 2006, 3-7.
  •   Ecal 2005, 8th European Conference on Artificial Life, University of Kent, UK, September 2005, 5-9
  •   IISREEC - International Interdisciplinary Seminar on New Robotics, Evolution and Embodied Cognition , 12 - 15 November 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Proceedings published in Vol 11 (1,2) of the Artificial Life Journal, MIT Press
  •   ″Is the process of belief located within the skull? Within the skin?″, communication to the international seminar The Process of Belief, July 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
  •   Talk, as invited speaker, on Artificial Life and Cognitive Science in the academic year opening ceremony of the Department of Informatics, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, October, 2002
  •   Organisation and presentation of the fifth session (Artificial Life) of the cycle of conferences ″A ciência tal qual se discute″ with Inman Harvey and Marco Dorigo as invited speakers, 25 Jan 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
  •   Talk, as invited speaker, on Philosophy of Cognition and Artificial Life, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, 8 February, 2002
  •   ECAL 2001, 6th European Conference on Artificial Life, University of Economics, Prague, September 2001
  •   Workshop The View from Elsewhere: Perspectives on Alife Modelling, September 2001, University of Economics, Prague
  •   EWLR 9, 9th European Workshop on Learning Robots, September 2001, University of Economics, Prague
  •   Artificial Life VII - The Seventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 1- 6 August 2000, Reed College Portland, EUA
  •   ICES 2000 - Third International Conference on Evolvable Systems: from Biology to Hardware, April 2000, Napier University, Edinburgh
  •   Evorob 2000 (Evoworkshops2000), April 2000, Napier University, Edinburgh
  •   ECAL 1999, 5th European Conference on Artificial Life, September 1999, EPFL - École Polytéchnique Féderale de Lausanne
  •   EWLR 8, 8th European Workshop on Learning Robots, September 1999, EPFL - École Polytéchnique Féderale de Lausanne

Organisation of Scientific Meetings

  •   Chair of ECAL2007, 9th European Conference on Articial Life, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2007, 10-14.
  •   Co-chair of the Workshop Morphologies, Motion and Cognition June 3-4, 2006, held during the Alife X conference, in the Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
  •   Co-chair of the workshop Active Agents and Their Environments as Dynamical Systems, that took place during Ecal 2005 in the University of Kent, in September 2005
  •   Co-chair of the workshop DSaLC (Dynamical Systems approach to Life and Cognition), University of Sussex, 8-9 March 2005
  •   Co-founder of the activate.d reading group, CCNR, SciTech School, University of Sussex
  •   Co-chair of IISREEC - International Interdisciplinary Seminar on New Robotics, Evolution and Embodied Cognition , 12 - 15 November 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Proceedings published in Vol 11 (1,2) of the Artificial Life Journal, MIT Press
  •   Organisation and presentation of the fifth session (Artificial Life) of the cycle of conferences ″A ciência tal qual se discute″ with Inman Harvey and Marco Dorigo as invited speakers, 25 Jan 2002, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon
  •   Co-organiser of the international seminar Fichte: belief, imagination, temporality, 26 - 28 October 2000, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon

Teaching

  •   2000-2001 and 2001-2002. Introduction to Cognitive Science, UAL - Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa

Languages

  • Spoken and written Portuguese (native language), English, French and Spanish; Reading of Italian as a working language.