1/25/2017 - 2/26/2017
João Luiz Afonso, Associate
Professor with Aggregation from the Department of Industrial Electronics (DEI)
of the EEUM, took office as the new Director of the DEI of the EEUM on the 3rd January.
João Luiz Afonso, Associate Professor with Aggregation from the
Department of Industrial Electronics (DEI) of the EEUM, was recently elected
director of the department for the period 2016-2018. The management team also
counts on Graça Maria Henriques Minas, Associate Professor from DEI, as
assistant director.
To João Luiz Afonso, the nomination is an opportunity that aims “to
improve together so that the success can be of all in the next years”, he
refers. “Another of our goals is to ensure that the students who work with us
leave the University of Minho with the best training possible and that all of
us – as a country and University – can profit from this”, he concludes.
João Luiz Afonso completed his bachelor degree in Electrotechnical
Engineering in 1986 at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and
his PhD in Industrial Electronics in 2000 at the University of Minho. He is an
Associate Professor in the DEI of the EEUM since 1993, where he teaches Electrical
Machines, Complements of Power Electronics, Electrical Power Quality, Active
Power Filters and Renewable Energy.
He develops his research activity in the Group of Energy and Power
Electronics (GEPE) – which he is coordinator –, and he also coordinates the
thematic strand of Sustainable and Smart Cities of the ALGORITMI Research
Centre. João Luiz Afonso supervised 50 master’s thesis and 10 doctoral theses,
having published over 180 papers in scientific conferences or journals with
referee.
The main objectives of the DEI comprise the offer of high quality
education projects in the subject areas of Electrotechnics, Electronics and
Instrumentation, Power Electronics and Actuators, Control, Automation and
Robotics, Industrial Informatics and Telecommunications, and the cooperation in
research activities.
+ info: http://www.dei.uminho.pt/
