R&D Projects

  • UT Austin | Portugal CoLab Partnership - Advanced Computing Area
    January 2013 - December 2017

    Participation: PI at IST

  • MRI-Based Computational Modeling of Blood Flow and Nanomedicine Deposition in Patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease: Insights into Disease Management
    September 2014 - December 2017
    Project CoLab UTAustin | Portugal
    PI at UT Austin: Thomas J. R. Hughes
    Participation: Project Coordinator (in Portugal)
  • Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Human Physiology – PHYSIOMATH
    May 2013 - September 2016
    Project FCT - EXCL/MAT-NAN/0114/2012
    Principal Contractor: IST-ID
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST, IMM/FM/UL, AIDFM/FM/UL, CHUC, IBILI/FM/UC
    Participation: Project Coordinator
  • Mathematical Modeling of Blood Flow with Application to Atherosclerosis and Other Diseases
    April 2011 - March 2013
    Volubilis Project: France/Morocco/Portugal
    Research Centers: ICJ (Univ. Lyon I)/ IMACS (Casablanca)/CEMAT/IST (UTL)
    Participation: Project Coordinator (in Portugal)
  • Cardiovascular Imaging, Modeling and Simulation- SIMCARD
    April 2009 - July 2012
    Project FCT - UTAustin/CA/0047/2008 (International partnership UTAustin | Portugal)
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST, HSM, SPRM, FEUP, UTAustin – ICES (with T. Hughes and C. Bajaj)
    Participation: PI
  • Multiscale Mathematical Models in Biomedicine
    June 2007 - September 2010
    Project FCT - PTDC/MAT/68166/2006
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST and IMM/FMUL (Carlota Saldanha)
    Participation: PI
  • Multiscale analysis and numerical simulation of mathematical models in hemodynamics and hemorheology
    March 2007 - December 2010
    Project Portugal/Italy
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST and IAC/CNR
    Participation: PI in Portugal
  • Fluid-structure interactions in the blood circulation: mathematical and numerical modelling
    March 2008 - December 2009
    Bilateral Project Portugal /Morocco
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST and MACS-Univ Hassan II Ain-Chok
    Participation: PI in Portugal
  • Mathematical and Numerical Modelling in Haemodynamics – HaeMOdel
    October 2002 - September 2006.
    EU-RTN European Research Training Network Contract HPRN-CT-2002-00270
    Centros de Investigação: MOX, Politecnico di Milano (Coordinator: A. Quarteroni) Italy; EPFL – Switzerland; Univ. Graz – Austria; INRIA Rocquencourt –France; Imperial College – U. K., DM/IST – Portugal
    Participation: PI in Portugal
  • Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of the Human Cardiovascular System
    January 2002 - April 2006
    Project FCT – POCTI/MAT/41898/2001
    Research Center: CEMAT/IST
    Participation: PI
  • Blood flow modelling in the vascular system
    March 2004 - December 2007
    Bilateral Project Portugal/Tunísia
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST and LAMSIN/ENIT
    Participation: PI in Portugal
  • Numerical Solution of Complex Non-Newtonian Fluid Flow Problems
    March 2004 - December 2005
    Bilateral Project Portugal-Morocco
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST and SIANO – Univ. Ibn Tofail
    Participation: PI in Portugal
  • Multiscale Models of Blood Flow in the Cerebral Vasculature
    September 2001 - August 2005
    International Project: Western Europe Program of NSF – 0104680
    Research Centers: Univ. Pittsburgh, USA (Coordinator: Anne M. Robertson), EPFL – Switzerland (A. Quarteroni), IST – Portugal (A. Sequeira)
    Participation: PI in Portugal
  • Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Non-Newtonian Fluid Models with Applications to the Technology of Polymer Liquid Crystals – II Phase
    September 2000 - August 2005
    Projecto FCT – POCTI / MAT / 380 / 2001
    Research Centers: CEMAT/IST, CENIMAT-FCT/UNL (A. Farinha Martins)
    Participation: PI