Offside
Lado B

"On a thread of a flame".

Corporate

INESC TEC, in the words of our partners – Statement by Porto Metropolitan Area, by the voice of Sara Lobão.

Limelight

"We obviously are very proud and grateful for this distinction. We are also very pleased to know that the theme discussed was highly valued by the participants.", Nuno Almeida (CTM)

Serious Thinking

"I was born during the dictatorship regime, they called me João and I'm best known as 'the bearded one' or even as Santa Claus.", João Ferreira (CAP)

Gallery of the Uncommon

We were already reading Human Resources trends for 2018 to see how we could attract more and better employees when we received an e-mail...

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.

Biptoon

More scenes of how life goes merrily on...

 
 

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.

 

André Baltazar, School of Arts – Portuguese Catholic University, Undergraduate and Graduate Course Coordinator in Sound and Image; Coordinator of the Digital Creativity Center; Professor

  • Year when you began working at INESC TEC and when you left: 2009-2010
  • Centre at INESC TEC where you worked: CTM - Centre for Telecommunications and Multimedia 
  • Names of the projects you were involved in: Curricular Internship to complete the MIEEC (the Integrated Master in Electrical and Computer Engineering) and the KINETIC project  

Explain your experience since leaving INESC TEC

I was part of the Kinetic project in 2009 with the Professor Carlos Guedes as PI, when I received a FCT-funded PhD scholarship and where I was welcomed at the Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts (CITAR - UCP). I decided to focus all my attention to the PhD and in 2010 I left INESC TEC. However, I kept in touch with the team and several researchers for a long time (in fact, Professor Jaime dos Santos Cardoso was my PhD co-supervisor). Meanwhile, during my PhD I was invited to teach in higher education establishments (namely at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto - IPP and at the Catholic University of Portugal - UCP) and when I defended my thesis in 2015 I became an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts -UCP.
Currently, I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts - UCP and this year I embraced the challenge to become the Undergraduate and Graduate Course Coordinator in Sound and Image besides being the Coordinator of the Digital Creativity Center of UCP (CCD-UCP).
As its name implies, CITAR is the perfect place to do research on science and technology applied to the arts. In comparison with INESC TEC, CITAR is still a new and small centre but with the clear intention of growing. We have several research areas in common, which means that we collaborate several times with researchers and projects from INESC TEC.

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

INESC TEC gave me the structure and good practices of scientific research, which was very helpful during my PhD and my career. Besides that, there was a good working environment and the fact that I worked with people from different countries and cultures also helped me handling my current challenge of coordinating teams of teachers and researchers that I now have to face. 

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

Honestly, I don’t think INESC TEC has changed. When I left it was a prestigious centre and to no surprise, it still remains like that. I don’t believe that the fact that INESC TEC is constantly renewing and innovating itself can be defined as “change”. In fact, this is an intrinsic factor of the Centre and in my opinion that is what makes it strong.