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Orlando Frazão, researcher at INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE), received the Fernando Bragança Gil 2012 Award for the best PhD thesis in Physics written in Portugal between 2009 and 2010. This award is given by the Portuguese Physics Society.
01st February 2013
In 2012, BIP featured several (good) news about researchers awarded for their work in different components. Literary awards, Best Papers Awards, winning projects and other distinctions, they all illustrate the research potential of this Associate Laboratory. The BIP team made a list of last year’s awards and we came up with a staggering number of 31 awards received by our collaborators. It is safe to say that excellence lives at INESC TEC!
24th January 2013
INESC TEC participated, between 10 and 12 October, in the Convention of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), which took place at the Centro de Congressos in Lisbon.
30th October 2012
From 27 to 29 June, the Faculty of Science of University of Porto (FCUP) hosted the 10th edition of the Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks and sensors (SEONs), which was organised by INESC TEC. As part of this symposium, the Portuguese Society for Research and Development in Optics and Photonics (SPOF) organised, in collaboration with INESC TEC and the IT-Aveiro, the first Summer School on Recent Advances in Optics and Photonics.
27th July 2012
Combining skills is the path for excellence – the institution now integrates 12 R&D units and over 600 employees, including 200 PhD holders – has originated major challenges in terms of the efficient combination of expertise in the Associate Laboratory: could we use this diversity of skills to develop national and European multidisciplinary and added-value projects?
02nd July 2012
INESC TEC’s Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) has recently started an innovative project in the biosensors area , in collaboration with the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), the National Institute of Biological Resources (INRB) and SOGRAPE, LDA (Sociedade Agrícola S. Mateus), where the aim is to develop an optical biosensor to detect DNA hybridisation processes which can be used in wine traceability.
01st June 2012
The Portuguese Society for Research and Development in Optics and Photonics is organising, in collaboration with INESC TEC and IT-Aveiro, the first Summer School on Recent Advances in Optics and Photonics, to be held between 27 and 29 June at the Faculty of Science of the University of Porto (FCUP). As part of this event, INESC TEC is also organising the 10th edition of the Symposium on Enabling Optical Networks and Sensors (SEONS), which takes place on 27 June.
01st June 2012
On 30th and 31st January INESC TEC received a visit from the SAB - Scientific Advisory Board following the last evaluation three years ago. The SAB is a group of leading international researchers that the Directors invite to evaluate INESC TEC and offer suggestions for the continuous improvement of the institute. The evaluation this year could not have been more positive: according to the SAB, INESC TEC has suffered exponential growth, it continues to strive for high-quality science and publications and it is an institute we should be proud of.
06th March 2012
INESC TEC, in partnership with the University of Minho and the Faculty of Sports of the University of Porto, have developed training equipment that allows competitive coaches and swimmers to measure their biometric parameters and performance to improve their knowledge and gain better results.
27th January 2012
Cláudia Ferreirinha from the Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) at INESC TEC was one of the researchers awarded the Prize for Encouraging Research from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
06th December 2011
The Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems Unit (UOSE) at INESC Porto was involved in organising the first international conference on the applications of optics and photonics, that took place in Braga between 3rd and 7th May.
22nd June 2011
In this year, so notoriously marked by the economic crisis, INESC Porto has increased its budget from 10 to 12.5 million Euros. However, this is actually one of the most conservative budgets so far: close to 90% of the predicted income has been contractually guaranteed since the beginning of the year. With his feet firmly on the ground the INESC Porto President admits that despite INESC Porto having practically doubled in size over the last five years, “this does not mean an obsession with records”. José Manuel Mendonça explains that a group effort from all of the collaborators will be necessary to maintain this sustainable growth and he recognises that guaranteeing a high level of quality while growing so rapidly will be an enormous challenge.
10th February 2011