Education
Jan 2001 – Jun 2006
PhD, Université Paris 6, IRCAM Écoulements dans les Anches Doubles pour application à la Synthèse par Modèle Physique (Physical models of double reeds applied to sound synthesis) Thesis director: Prof. Xavier Rodet
Sep 1994 – Jun 1999
Licenciatura in Physics Engineering (5-year undergraduate studies) at Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa; mark 16/20.
Jun 1994
Secondary School, Carlos Amarante, Braga, Portugal; mark 17/20.
Professional Experience
Sep 2013 – Present
Research Associate, acoustics of wind instruments during transients and vibrato, ARC project, Music Acoustics, Univ. New South Wales, Sydney, Australia PI: Dr. Joe Wolfe
Sep 2009 – Aug 2013
(currently on leave) Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences), Université du Maine, Le Mans, France
Nov 2007 – Sep 2009
Post-doc, Performance in wind instruments ARC project, Music Acoustics, Univ. New South Wales, Sydney, Australia PI: Dr. Joe Wolfe
May 2007 – Oct 2007
Research and Development assistant – Development of algorithms for the sound synthesis of wind instruments by physical models IRCAM, Paris, partnership with Arturia, Grenoble
Nov 2006 – May 2007
Post-doc, LAM / IJLRDA / Univ. Pierre et Marie Curie Control parameters in wind instruments PI: Benoît Fabre
Jun 2004 – Sep 2005
Research and Development assistant – Development of algorithms for the sound synthesis of wind instruments by physical models IRCAM, Paris, partnership with Arturia, Grenoble
Jan 2001 – Jun 2006
PhD, Université Paris 6, IRCAM Research and development of models for musical instruments, applied to a sound synthesiser IRCAM, Paris
Oct 1999 – Oct 2000
“Introduction to Research” Scholarship “Predicting Radiation Doses in the Internal Van Allen Belt”; Non-Linear Dynamics Group, Instituto Superior Técnico; tutored by Rui Alves-Pires.
Sep 1998 – Jun 1999
Researh Internship “Dynamique des Tourbillons Etirés”; Laboratoire de Physique Statystique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris; tutored by Prof. Yves Couder.
Teaching
May/Jun 2020
Science and Technology teacher at Lycée Condorcet — The french school of Sydney
Oct 2009 – Aug 2013
Average 240 h/yr in several domains of acoustics (perception, electroacoustics, electronics, signal processing and music acoustics)
Aug 2008 – Oct 2008
Teaching assistant (demonstrator), Physics, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia): Phys2630 (Electronics laboratories).
Mar 2008 – Jun 2008
Teaching assistant (demonstrator), Physics, University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia): Phys2030 (Physics laboratories).
Feb 2000 – Aug 2000
Teaching assistant, Instituto Superior Técnico, Physics department; Experimental Physics I / Experiments in Modern Physics (3rd-year level laboratory course of the physics engineering undergraduate course)
Feb 1998 – Aug 1998
Teaching assistant, Instituto Superior Técnico, Physics department; Physics II (1st-year level seminar of the mechanical engineering undergraduate course)
Grants and awards
Dec 2009 – Dec 2012
Research grant, Retour des Post-Doctorants, Agence Nationale de Recherche, France
Nov 2006
Scholarship Comité Français de Physique. Participation in the 4th joint meeting of the acoustical society of America and the acoustical society of Japan Honolulu Hi USA.
Jan 2001 – Dec 2004
Doctoral Fellowship, FCT/MCES
Apr 2004
French Acoustical Society Fellowship. Participation in the International Congress of Acoustics 2004 – Kyoto, Japan and International Symposium on Musical Acoustics 2004 – Nara, Japan
Oct 1999 – Sep 2000
BIC (Introduction to research) Fellowship FCT/MCES (Non-linear Dynamics Group). Predicting radiation doses in the internal van Allen belt with Prof. Rui Alves Pires
Professional service
Jan 2007 – Dec 2008
Physics Representative to the Science Early Career Academics Network at UNSW
Jan 2007 – Dec 2008
Member of the GSAM board (Specialized group in musical acoustics) of the French Acoustical Society
Oct 2003
Organization of the 1st JJCAAS (Workshop for Young Researchers in Acoustics, Audition and Audio Signals)
Dec 1996 – Dec 1997
President of the physics association at Instituto Superior Técnico;
Oct 1997
Organization of the Physics Week at Instituto Superior Técnico;