The University of Minho has 69 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group, 37 of whom are researchers at the School of Engineering. The list, called ‘World’s Top […]
Awards
139 posts
Paulo Cortez was recently awarded the distinction ‘2025 Portuguese Excellence Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Spain’ by the Ramón Areces Foundation. This distinction, awarded by the Spanish entity, recognises the outstanding research career in the field of Artificial Intelligence of the researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, lecturer at the Department […]
Cláudia Almeida Silva, a researcher at CMEMS, was awarded the Young Researcher Award at the European Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2025 (E-MRS Fall Meeting 2025), which took place in Warsaw, Poland, between 15 and 18 September 2025. The PhD student in Materials Engineering, who conducts her research under the […]
Diogo Costa, a student in the Doctoral Programme in Electronic and Computer Engineering, was awarded the Best Presentation Award at the latest RTCSA 2025. With his paper ‘Beyond the Bermuda Triangle of Contention: IOMMU Interference in Mixed Criticality Systems’, the member of the ALGORITMI Centre stood out in Singapore at […]
João Pedro Couto, professor at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, was honoured on 3 July in London (United Kingdom) with the Charles Manby Award – awarded by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), a world-renowned civil engineering organisation – for co-authoring the best scientific article of […]
Maria Gabriela Jordão Oliveira, a final-year student on the Master’s in Physical Engineering, is the winner of the 2025 Alcino Lavrador Award, which recognises the best final-year student on any Master’s programme taught by the School of Engineering at the University of Minho. This is an annual award with a […]
Fernando Ribeiro, a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre of the School of Engineering at the University of Minho, was honoured with the Gerhard Kraetzschmar Award at RoboCup 2025, which took place from 15 to 21 July in Salvador da Bahia. In Brazil, the professor from the Department of Industrial Electronics […]
Pedro Loureiro, a researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the International Young Engineers Forum on Electrical and Computer Engineering (YEF-ECE 2025), an event held on 4 July in Lisbon. The master’s student in Industrial and Computer Engineering, who is developing his dissertation at GEPE, […]
Two projects developed by students from the Department of Production and Systems (DPS) and the ALGORITMI Centre, at the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, were awarded international prizes at the PAEE/ALE 2025 – International Conference on Active Learning in Engineering Education, which took place between 25 and […]
PIEP’s VALORNATURE project stood out for its innovation component and for promoting cross-border dynamics between the business fabric of the Euro-Region of Galicia and Northern Portugal. PIEP – Pólo de Inovação em Engenharia de Polímeros, a technology and innovation centre based in Guimarães, was distinguished by the Northern Regional Coordination […]
The UMinho-IMFAHE partnership has already involved 90 doctoral students and 75 professors/researchers The sixth edition of the UMinho/IMFAHE International Mentoring Project has ended. This year, 20 doctoral students and 14 professors and researchers from the University of Minho, from various areas, were selected to join the Talent Network of the […]
Rui Lima honoured with the Teaching Merit Award For the first time, the University of Minho has awarded the Teaching Merit Prize to Rui Lima, a professor at the School of Engineering. The award was announced at the institution’s 51st anniversary ceremony, held on 17 February. This annual award aims […]