Curriculum Vitae. João Mário Miranda

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1 Curriculum Vitae João Mário Miranda October 14, 2009 Personal information Name: João Mário Rodrigues Miranda Address: Rua Luís Azevedo Coutinho, nº 35, R/C Esq. Frt, Senhora da Hora Phone number: Birth place and day: Mozambique, December 7, 1971 Graduation: Chemical Engineering PhD: Chemical Engineering Education 2002 PhD in Chemical Engineering (Department of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Porto University) th ESMST summer course, "Membrane Processes in Food and Biotechnological Applications", September, Lund, Sweden Conclusion of the curricular part (one year) of a master s program in Biological Engineering (Department of Biological Engineering, Minho University). Classification: 16/ Graduation in Chemical Engineering (Department of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Porto University). Classification: 15/20.

2 2 Teaching Signal Processing Assistant Professor Universidade Lusófona Signals and Systems Assistant Professor Universidade Lusófona Production and Operations Management Assistant Professor Universidade Lusófona Game Theory Assistant Professor Universidade Lusófona Signal Processing Assistant Professor Universidade Lusófona Statistics I Assistant Professor Universidade Lusófona Operational Research Assistant Professor Universidade Lusófona Transport Operations Teaching Assistant Porto University (part time) Fluid Mechanics Teaching Assistant (part time) Engineering Faculty Porto University Engineering Faculty Professional and scientific activity Associate Researcher of the CEFT research group Member of CEFT research group (Centro de Estudos de Fenómenos de Transporte) Assistant Professor, Universidade Lusófona Postdoctoral researcher at the Biological Engineering Center, Minho University Invited Teaching Assistant (part time), Department of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Porto University PhD Student at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Porto University Teaching Assistant (part time), Engineering Faculty, Porto University Trainee (grant BJI 1624) at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Porto University.

3 3 Scholarships Post-Doc scholarship (SFRH/BPD/17689/2004) to study transport phenomena in sub-macroscopic systems PhD scholarship (PRAXIS XXI/BD/3280/94) to study mass transport in the vicinity of separation membranes Young researcher scholarship (JNICT - BJI 1624) to study membrane separation cells. Publications PhD thesis 2002 João Mário Miranda, "Transporte de massa em escoamentos na vizinhança de membranas de separação" ( Mass transport in flows in the vicinity of separation membranes ). International Journals (with peer review) 2009 A. Afonso, J. M. Miranda, J.B.L.M Campos, Numerical study of BSA ultrafiltration in the limiting flux regime effect of variable physical properties, accepted for publication in Desalination. S.I.S. Pinto, T.M.G.T. Rocha, J.M. Miranda, J.B.L.M. Campos, A new membrane fractionation process based on the combination of hybrid membrane cells and differential diffusion of two solutes, Desalination 241 (2009), JM Miranda, JBLM Campos, "Numerical study of a hybrid membrane cell with semi and fully permeable membrane sub-sections", Chemical Engineering Science 62 (2007) Miranda, J.M., JBLM Campos, "Mass Transfer regimes in a laminar boundary layer with suction parallel flow and high Peclet number", Int. Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, (2004).

4 Miranda, J.M. and JBLM Campos, "Mass transfer in the vicinity of a separation membrane the applicability of the stagnant film theory", J. Membrane Science, 202, , (2002) Miranda, J.M. e J.B.L.M. Campos, "An improved numerical scheme to study mass transfer over a separation membrane", Journal of Membrane Science, 188, 49-59, (2001). Miranda, J.M. e J.B.L.M. Campos, "Concentration polarization in a membrane placed under an impinging jet confined by a conical wall a numerical approach", Journal of Membrane Science, 182, , (2001). Miranda, J.M., M.N. Coelho Pinheiro, J.B.L.M. Campos, "A simple model to obtain mass transfer coefficients from a soluble solid to a flowing fluid in closed recirculating systems", Int. Comm. Heat and Mass Transfer, 28, (2001). Miranda, J.M. and JBLM Campos, "Impinging jet confined by a conical wall high Schmidt mass transfer predictions in laminar flow", Int. J. Heat and Mass Transfer, 44, , (2001) Miranda, J.M. and JBLM Campos, "Impinging jets confined by a conical wall laminar flow predictions", AIChE Journal, 45, , (1999). Submitted articles 2009 H. Oliveira, J. M. Miranda, J. A. Teixeira, A. A. Vicente, J. H. Correia, G. Minas, Numerical study of micromixing combining alternate flow and obstacles, submitted to the International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer.

5 5 Articles in preparation 2009 S.I.S. Pinto, J.M. Miranda, J.B.L.M. Campos, Numerical determination of the apparent selectivity in the fractionation of BSA and dextran-t10 by ultrafiltration.. J. M. Miranda, G. Minas, A. A. Vicente, J. A. Teixeira, Reaction, mass transport and electro-osmotic flow in a lab-on-a-chip for clinical tests of human physiological fluids. International conferences 2009 S.I.S. Pinto, J.M. Miranda, J.B.L.M. Campos, Numerical study of the effect of a charged membrane in the fractionation of two proteins with opposite charges, PERMEA 2009, Prague, 7-11 June, S.I.S. Pinto, J.M. Miranda, J.B.L.M. Campos, Numerical study of the fractionation of two proteins with opposite charges by a hybrid membrane cell composed of symmetrically charged membranes, Euromembrane 2009, Montpellier, France, September 6-10, J. M. Miranda, J. A. Teixeira, A. A. Vicente, J. H. Correia, G. Minas, Improving Alternate Flow mixing by Obstacles Located along a Micro-Channel, 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE EMBS Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, September 2-6, Pinto S. I. S., J. B. L. M. Campos and J. M. Miranda, Numerical determination of the apparent selectivity in the fractionation of BSA and Dextran-T10 by ultrafiltration, Engineering with Membranes 2008, May 2008, Vale do Lobo, Algarve, Portugal H. Oliveira, J. M. Miranda, J. A. Teixeira, A. A. Vicente, J. H. Correia, G. Minas, Alternate flows in a microfluidic device, 18th Workshop on Micromachining, Micromechanics and Microsystems, September 2007, Guimarães, Portugal. S.I.S. Pinto, T.M.G.T.Rocha, J.M. Miranda, J.B.L.M. Campos, "Separation of solutes with different diffusivities in an hybrid membrane cell comprising semi and fully permeable membranes", Membrane Science and Technology Conference of Visegrad

6 6 Countries, September 2-6, 2007, Siófok, Hungary. T.M.G.T.Rocha, S.I.S. Pinto, J.M. Miranda, J.B.L.M. Campos, Development of membranes with regions with different characteristics by phase inversion techniques, Membrane Science and Technology Conference of Visegrad Countries, September 2-6, 2007, Siófok, Hungary J. M. Miranda, G. Minas, A. A. Vicente, J. A. Teixeira, Design of a lab-on-a-chip for clinical tests of human physiological fluids, Second International Conference on Transport Phenomena in Micro and Nanodevices, June 11-15, 2006, Barga, Italy. Poster presentations 2006 H. C. Oliveira, J. M. Miranda, J. A. Teixeira, J. H. Correia, G. Minas, Oscillatory and alternate flows in a microfluidic device, 20th Eurosensors Conference, Goteborg, Sweden, 17th-20th September AMP Afonso, JMR Miranda, JBLM Campos, "Numerical study of the flow and mass transport in a parallel plate membrane cell: concentration dependent properties", poster presentation at the Workshop "Transport Phenomena in Chemical and Environmental Engineering", July , FEUP, Porto, Portugal. Experience as scientific supervisor MSc students Co-supervisor of the MSc thesis Numerical study of the flow and mass transport in a parallel plate membrane cell: concentration dependent properties by Alexandre M.P. Afonso (2005). (concluded).

7 7 PhD students Co-supervisor of Sónia Pinto, PhD Student: New separation hybrid membrane cells. Research assistants Telma Rocha, Production of hybrid membranes by phase inversion. Projects Researcher of the project "Lab-on-a-chip with fluid acoustic microagitation" - PTDC/BIO/70017/ Researcher of the project "SU-8 microfluidic system integrated in a microlaboratory for biological fluids analyses", supported by the IN2TEC program (Engineering School, Minho University) Researcher of the project New separation hybrid membrane cells - POCTI/EQU/59724/2004. Member of examination committees 2009 Examiner of the master s thesis of Mª Filipa Couto Soares Gonçalves de Azevedo titled Aplicação de CFD no Estudo do Comportamento Térmico em Edifícios (Use of CFD to study heat transfer in buildings) Examiner of the master s thesis of Tiago Filipe Marujo e Moreira titled Studies in Displacement Ventilation Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort.

8 8 Software use and development 2008 Development of software for time series analysis (R Language) Development of software to simulate membrane separation processes (Fortran, C++ and Python) Development of software to study electroosmotic flows in microchannels (C++ and Overture running on Linux). Use of OpenFoam to study biphasic flows by the VOF method. Use of Fluent to study alternate flows in microchannels Development of interactive internet sites (PHP, MySQL, Apache). Language skills Reading Writing Comprehension Conversation Portuguese Native Language English Excelent Excelent Excelent Excelent French Very Good Good Very Good Good