Curriculum Vitae

Identification

• Name: Nuno Costa Martins de Faria
• Birth: 13th February 1972 - Oporto, Portugal
• Marital status: married
• Nationality: Portuguese
• Home address: Rua de Cervantes, 551 - 4.1 / 4050-188 Porto / Portugal
• Telephone: (+351) 919778675
• E-mail: nfaria@fe.up.pt

Academic degrees

• Joint PhD, in April 2002, by the following institutions:
  • ``Universidade do Porto'', Portugal - Chemical Engineering PhD
  • ``Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine'', France - Process Systems Engineering PhD.
• Chemical Engineering License by ``Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto'', in August 1995, with a final classification of 15/20.
• Is presently attending the third year of a five year license in Informatics Engineering, at the ``Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto''.
• Proficiency in English by the University of Cambridge in 1990.

Scientific activity

• From July to September 1994, carried out a training at ``Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica do Porto'', in non-linear optimisation.

• From 1996 to 2002, within his PhD, worked with sucrose crystallisation, image analysis, process simulation, optimisation, laboratory data acquisition and control in the ``Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto'', Portugal and ``Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique'', Nancy, France.

• From March 2001 to February 2004 developed research activity at ``Centro de Estudos de Reologia e Tecnologia Alimentar do ISEIT Mirandela - Instituto Piaget'', Portugal, working with crystallisation process simulation and optimisation and development of image analysis techniques.

• Is an Investigator at ``Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica do Porto'', Portugal, since May 2002.

• From March to September 2004 was a Post-Doc researcher , at the ``Fermentation Pilot Plant, Novozymes A/S'', Danemark in industrial fermentation process optimisation and control, under the FP5 European Research Project ``BatchPro''.

Professional activity

• From 1993 to 1995 was a photography teacher at ``Centro Regional do Porto do Instituto Português da Juventude'', Portugal.

• In 1998/99 taught the informatics class to the Chemical Engineering degree in ``Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto''.

• From 1996 to 2000 was a full time researcher at ``Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto'', Portugal and ``Laboratoire des Sciences du Génie Chimique'', France, financed by a grant from the Portuguese Science Foundation and the French Embassy in Portugal.

• From September 2001 to February 2004 was an university teacher at ``I.S.E.I.T. - Mirandela, Instituto Piaget'', lecturing the classes of Food Production Technology, Process Instrumentation and Control, Introduction to Computers and Computer Programming, Numerical Methods and Fluid Dynamics to the Food Engineering and Civil Engineering degrees.

• From March to September 2004 was a full time researcher at the Fermentation Pilot Plant, Novozymes A/S, Danemark, financed by an European Union Post-Doc grant.

Other activities

Hobbies

Conference organisation

• XV Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Química - OPorto, 22 to 25 May, 1996 (organising committee)

• 2 European Symposium on Biochemical Engineering Science - OPorto, 16 to 19 September, 1998 (organising committee)

• III Encontro de Engenharia Alimentar e Nutrição - Mirandela, 29 to 30 May, 2003 (scientific committe / organising committee)

Informatics knowledge

• Operating systems (installation, configuration and use) - Unix (Linux), Ms-DOS, Ms-Windows (3.11, 95/98, NT4.0 and 2000)

• Office suits - OpenOffice, Gnumeric, Abiword and Ms Office.

• Document typesetting languages - Latex, HTML, XML.

• Database - PostgreSQL, MsAccess.

• Scientific production programs - GNUOctave/Matlab, GNUplot, Visilog (image analysis), Qcad, MsExcel.

• Programming languages - Fortran77/90, C, Java, Perl, Pascal, Basic, Visual Basic.

• Process control software - Emerson DeltaV.

Foreign languages

• English - excellent conversation, reading and writing.

• French - excellent conversation and reading, reasonable writing.

• Spanish - reasonable conversation and reading, poor writing.

Prizes

• IChemE prize for the best poster presentation, for its graphical quality and scientific content to the article:
  M.N. Pons, E. Camarasa, H. Vivier, N. Faria, F. Rocha, S. Feyo de Azevedo; ``Shape Caracterization of Sugar Crystals''; World Congress of Powder Technology, Brighton, July (1998)

Publications

Theses

• Nuno Faria; ``Quantificação da morfologia de cristais de açúcar e sua aplicação ao estudo das cinéticas de cristalização''; PhD thesis; Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto / Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Lorraine; April (2002).

Articles in international magazines with scientific referees

• N.Faria, M.N.Pons, S.Feyo de Azevedo, F.A.Rocha, H.Vivier; ``Quantifying the morphology of sucrose crystals by image analysis''; Powder Technology; 133; pp.54-67; (2003).

Communications in conference proceedings with scientific referees

• N.Faria, S. Feyo de Azevedo, F.A.Rocha, A.Ferreira; ``Análise de Imagem: algumas aplicações em Engenharia Alimentar''; III Encontro de Engenharia Alimentar e Nutrição; Instituto Piaget; Mirandela, March 2003.

• S. Feyo de Azevedo, F. Rocha, N. Faria, M.N. Pons ; ``Using image analysis to Look into the effect of operating conditions in sugar crystallisation''; 15th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallization, Sorrento, Italy, Sept (2002).

• M.N. Pons, H. Vivier, N. Faria, F. Rocha, S. Feyo de Azevedo; ``Effect of Operation Conditions on Shape in Sugar Crystallisation''; 14th International Symposium on Industrial Crystallisation, Cambridge, Sept (1999).

• M.N. Pons, E. Camarasa, H. Vivier, N. Faria, F. Rocha, S. Feyo de Azevedo; ``Shape Caracterization of Sugar Crystals''; World Congress of Powder Technology, Brighton, July (1998)

Other publications

• Nuno Faria, José Chorão, Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo; ``Simulação Computacional de Processos Industriais - Cristalização de Açúcar Branco'', 5as Jornadas Nacionais de Projecto, Planeamento e Produção Assistidos por Computador; Guimarães (1995).

Reference personalities

• Professor Sebastião Feyo de Azevedo - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

• Professor Fernando Alberto Rocha - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

• Docteur Marie-Noelle Pons - Institut Nationale Polytechnique de Lorraine, France.

• Professor Romualdo Salcedo - Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

• Doctor Henrik Jørghensen - Fermentation Pilot Plant, Novozymes A/S, Denmark.