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Lado B

INESC TEC Jazz Band celebrated, on 6 February, five years of existence. CONGRATULATIONS!

Corporate

INESC TEC, in the words of our partners – Statement by Silos de Leixões, by the voice of Nuno Fernandes.

Limelight

"INESC TEC gave me time, room and the possibility to grow in a sustainable manner as a professional.", Hugo Choupina (C-BER)

Free Nonsense

"My warmest congratulations to those who came up with the tickets' idea and to everyone who are a part of it!", Patrícia Gonçalves (LIAAD)

Gallery of the Uncommon

Miguel starts to listen the bubble water and soon after he smells the wet ground. Then he ear cries for help...

Where are you now?

Every month INESC TEC sends highly qualified individuals into the market...

Jobs 4 the Boys & Girls

In this section, the reader may find reference to public announcements made by INESC TEC offering grants, contracts and other opportunities of the same kind.

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More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

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Where are you now?

Where are you now?

Every month INESC TEC sends highly qualified individuals into the market. These individuals often then go on to occupy important positions in some of the best national and international companies or they opt to form spin-offs. As the best way to perform technology transfer is through individuals, this section is dedicated to collaborators that trained at INESC TEC and now star in other companies and institutions.

 

NELSON KNAK NETO, Regional Integrated University of Upper Uruguai and Missions - Campus Santo Ângelo, Professor of Electrical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering

  • Year when you began working at INESC TEC and when you left: 2015-2016 
  • Centre at INESC TEC where you worked: CPES, supervised by Vladimiro Miranda and with the intervention of Leonel Carvalho and Jean Sumaili
  • Name(s) of project(s) you were involved in: My journey here in INESC TEC began at Sandwich Doctorate degree of CAPES. During these 11 months I had the opportunity to exchange experiences and learn from INESC TEC researchers in order to develop my PhD thesis entitled "Methodologies for modeling loads of low voltage consumers considering the integration of the demand response, distributed generation and electric vehicles". 

Explain your experience since leaving INESC TEC:

I came back to Brazil on 27 February 2016 and on 29 I was at the Faculty. I began my activities at Regional Integrated University of Upper Uruguai and Missions- Campus Santo Ângelo, located in the south of Brazil, near the border of Argentina. URI it’s a private and community college. This means that the university is organised and managed by a local community that is always concerned about social, economic and cultural needs of the population, mostly descendant of Italians, Germans, Polish, Russians, Jews immigrants. It is called an Integrated Regional University for two reasons. On the one hand, it integrates communities from the same geographic region (north and northeast of RS); on the other, because their campuses (a total of 6 that are distributed in different cities of the region), in their history, are strongly integrated with local community and are committed to the development of their region.

At first, I only taught two disciplines, as a part-time, in order to complete my doctoral thesis. I worked like this until October 2016, when I was promoted, after a contest (public selection process), to full-time work with exclusive dedication. At the beginning of 2017, I defended my PhD thesis, which was attended by Leonel Carvalho of INESC TEC as a member of the examining board (through videoconference). Since then, I am a professor of Electrical, Civil and Mechanical Engineering courses, also working in research and extension activities at URI. It's been a very rewarding job!

From November 2017, I became a researcher of the National Institutes of Science and Technology on Distributed Generation Power Systems (INCT-GD) as a researcher, through a URI partnership with the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). The main purpose of this Institution is to produce science, technology and innovation, training human resources and transfer knowledge in the area of Distributed Generation Power Systems for the development of the business and public sector, and of all Brazilian society through projects and partnerships between public and private initiatives, bringing education and research closer to the market. 

In your opinion how did your time at INESC TEC help you in your new role?

At INESC TEC, I’ve learned a lot about the importance of applying research. There is no use in developing new technologies if they do not reach the market. In the same way, there is no point in having a market demand, if they do not reach those who can meet them. For this to happen, a very well organised structure is needed in which different agents act dynamically and consistently. For that reason, the research projects are elaborated according to the needs of the society, while at the same time playing an important role for the future, which is the training of qualified professionals. INESC TEC does it very well, at least that is my opinion (laughs).

In the meantime, I believe one of the most important aspects that I’ve learned were the plurality of ideas and cultural diversity and respect. All these topics are crucial so that we can work together on the development of new technologies.

In your opinion, how has INESC TEC changed since you left?

Unfortunately, my busy schedule doesn't give me the opportunity to know what is happening at INESC TEC. I found out the latest news by my friends, BIP and Instagram. This was a major progress. I was so happy to have the opportunity to follow Magusto event, even though I missed the roasted chestnuts and Jeropiga!