Since April 2000, I'm an Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science, at
the Faculdade de Ciências e
Tecnologia/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where
I also did my Ph.D. in Computer Science, back in
October 1993. I'm a researcher, and member of the
board of directors, at the Artificial Intelligence
Centre of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CENTRIA). From 2001 until the
beginning of 2005 I was also a member of the
Executive Committee of the Department of Computer
Science. From February 2005 to September 2007, I was
the co-ordinator of the degree in Informatics
Engineering at FCT/UNL.
After doing my Ph.D., and until becoming Associate
Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, I was Assistant
Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Évora. There, besides
teaching and research, I helped on the setting up of a
new Computer Science course, first, and of a
Department of Computer Science, afterwards. I was also
Head of the Mathematics Department, Director of the
Departamental Area of Exact Sciences (between 1995 and
1997), and responsible in Évora for the M.Sc. in
Applied Artificial Intelligence (joint organized by
Universidade de Évora and Universidade Nova de
Lisboa).
My main research interests are within the area of
Artificial Intelligence. More specifically, my interests
have been focused on Logic Programming, Non-Monotonic
Reasoning, Knowledge Representation, Model Based Diagnosis.
Recently, a great part of my research work is directed
towards the problem of Knowledge Base Updates and on
Evolution and Reactivity in the Web this latter topic being
the main focus of a working group of EU project Rewerse. I wrote a number of
papers, and had some projects, on these subjects. I've
also organized a couple of conferences and served in
editorial boards of journals and programme committees
of conferences in these areas (cf. my C.V.).
I have been approved in the "Agregação" exam in June 2008.
I am a member of the portuguese AI association APPIA.
If you want to contact me, here are my coordinates.
