Coordinator of the Information Technology in Water and Environment Research Unit
Senior Research Officer
Academic and Scientific Degrees
Ph.D.(1997) and M.Sc. (1994) in Environmental Science and Engineering. Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, USA.
Degree in Civil Engineering (Hydraulics and Water Resources), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal, 1990
Functions and Relevant Public Offices
Scientific management: Coordinator of the Information Technology in Water and Environment Research Unit (May 2013-present); Head of the Hydraulics and Environment Information Technology Division (March 2009-April 2013)
Research career at LNEC: Senior research officer (2010-present), Research Officer (1999-2009), Research Fellow (1990-1991)
Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology, E.U.A. (1991-1997)
Areas of Research / Interest
Real time forecast and monitoring of aquatic systems (estuaries, coasts and urban drainage)
High performance computing in aquatic systems (estuaries, coasts)
Web platforms for risk management and emergency response
Research and Professional Activity
Coordinator of the development and maintenance of the OPENCoastS service
(on-demand coastal forecasts)
Coordinator / Responsible at LNEC of over 10 research projects funded by national and international funding agencies: (FCT: PAC:MAN, G-cast, MADyCOS, LTER-RAVE, INCD, MOLINES, MOSAIC.pt,
FLAD: Nowcast, B-GEM, C-WOS, INTERREG: SPRES, AdI: SI-GEA, SINERGEA,
IMMATIE: Marie Curie, H2020: WADI, EOSC-Hub, EOSC-Synergy)
Participant in over 40 externally-funded research projects (principais financiadores: EU, INTERREG, FLAD/NSF, F. C. Gulbenkian, AdI, FCT, EEA-Grants).
Participant in over 50 advanced consultancy project in Portugal, África, América e Europe
Scientific Orientation
Pos-Doc (Nuno Charneca, Xavier Bertin, Nicolas Bruneau, Amélia Araújo, Ian Dodkins)
PhD (Alberto Azevedo (2010), Sandra Plecha (2011), Marta Rodrigues (2012), Gonçalo de Jesus (2019))
Advisor of several M.Sc. thesis and over 10 research fellows at LNEC.
Relevant Publications
Maria Adriana Cardoso Maria Céu Almeida Rita S. Brito João L. Gomes Paula Beceiro Anabela Oliveira (2020). 1D/2D stormwater modelling to support urban flood risk management in estuarine areas: Hazard assessment in the Dafundo case study. Journal of Flood Risk Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12663 (in press)
Oliveira, A., A.B. Fortunato, J. Rogeiro, J. Teixeira, A. Azevedo, L. Lavaud, X. Bertin, J. Gomes, M. David, J. Pina, M. Rodrigues, P. Lopes, 2020. OPENCoastS: An open-access service for the automatic generation of coastal forecast systems, Environmental Modelling and Software, 124: 104585. DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2019.104585
R. Martins, A. Azevedo, A. B. Fortunato, E. Alves, A. Oliveira, A. Carvalho, 2019. An innovative and reliable water leak detection service supported by data-intensive remote sensing processing. M. F. Rodrigues et al. (Eds.): ICCS 2019, LNCS 11539, pp. 96–108, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22747-0_8
Oliveira, A.; Rodrigues, M.; Rogeiro, J.; Fortunato, A. B.; Teixeira, J.; Azevedo, A.; Lopes, P. 2019. Opencoasts: an open access app for sharing coastal prediction in formation for management and recreation, M. F. Rodrigues et al. (Eds.): ICCS 2019, LNCS 11539, pp. 794–807, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22750-0_80
Jesus, Gonçalo & Casimiro, Antonio & Oliveira, Anabela. (2018). Dependable Outlier Detection in Harsh Environments Monitoring Systems:SAFECOMP 2018 Workshops, ASSURE, DECSoS, SASSUR, STRIVE, and WAISE Proceedings. 10.1007/978-3-319-99229-7_20.
João Rogeiro, Marta Rodrigues, Alberto Azevedo, Anabela Oliveira, João Paulo Martins, Mário David, João Pina, Nuno Dias, Jorge Gomes, 2018. Running high resolution coastal models in forecast systems: moving from workstations and HPC cluster to cloud resources, Advances in Engineering Software, Volume 117, March 2018, Pages 70-79, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.advengsoft.2017.04.002.
Jesus, G.; Casimiro, A.; Oliveira, A. (2017). A survey on data quality for dependable monitoring in wireless sensor networks, Sensors 2017,17, 2010; doi: 10.3390/s17092010
Fortunato; A.B., A. Oliveira*; J. Rogeiro; R. T. Costa; J. L. Gomes; Kai Li ; G. Jesus; P. Freire; A. Rilo; A. Mendes; M. Rodrigues; A. Azevedo. (2017). Operational forecast framework applied to extreme sea levels at regional and local scales. Journal of Operational Oceanography, Volume 10, 2017 - Issue 1, DOI: 10.1080/1755876X.2016.1255471- * 1ª autoria partilhada entre o 1º e 2º autores
A. Azevedo, A. B. Fortunato, B. Epifânio, S. den Boer, E. R. Oliveira, F. L. Alves, G. Jesus, J. L. Gomes, A. Oliveira. 2017. An oil risk management system based on high-resolution hazard and vulnerability calculations. Ocean & Coastal Management, Volume 136, Pages 1–18, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.11.014.
Jesus G., Oliveira A., Azevedo A., Casimiro A. (2015) Improving sensor-fusion with environmental models. IEEE Sensors 2015, 1839-1842.DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2015.7370654