Member summary

Degrees

• Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr.-Ing.), from T.U. Dresden, December, 2006.
  
• Habilitation ("Agregação") in Artificial Intelligence, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 1980.
  
• PhD in Cybernetics, Brunel University, London, 1974.
  
• Diplomed Electronics Engineer, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, 1971.

Posts

• Full Professor of Computer Science since 1985 (early retired 2008 - at 60 - so I can work!), at Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon.
  
• Founder and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Centre (1993-2008) (CENTRIA) at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, comprising 68 researchers.
  
• Head of the Computer Science Department at Universidade Nova de Lisboa 1992-1996.
  
• Visiting Scientist at: U. California at Riverside, USA; State U. NY at Stony Brook, USA; U. Bologna, Italy.
  
• Research Fellow, Dept. of Computational Logic, Edinburgh University, 1974-1975.
  
• Researcher, National Laboratory for Civil Engineering, Lisbon, 1971-1973, 1976-1978.