Pedro Faria Lopes got his PhD in 1996 from Instituto Superior
Técnico (IST), Lisbon. He is currently Associate Professor at
Departamento das Ciências e Tecnologias da Informação (DCTI),
ISCTE University, Lisbon. He is Vice-President of the Department,
responsible for the Master of Science programs. He started his
university career in 1984. Previously, since 1976, he worked as
teacher, producer and director in animation and cinema, winning
several prizes for his work. In 1988 he was Assistant at Geneva
University. From 1983 to 1996 he was researcher at INESC were he
started research in Computer Animation. In 1991-1992 he created the
Multimedia Center and he was its Executive Director until 1994.
He has participated in national and international research
projects and he is Senior Research Manager at ADETTI, a research
center he co-founded at ISCTE. He has been consultant to and
cooperating with the
Ministry of Education, Portuguese Government, National Library (Biblioteca
Nacional), Atitude Virtual, Mirada, Municipality of Lisbon,
Sonofilme, Thomson Digital Image and other institutes and
companies.
He has served as Program Committee member of several national and
international Workshops and Conferences in Multimedia, Computer
Games, Computer and Digital Arts and Computer Animation. He has been expert evaluator for the European Commission
since 1995, last evaluations done in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 and
2004, evaluating research projects in the areas of Multimedia,
Virtual Reality, Digital
Video and Television, Computer Games, Augmented and Mixed Reality, Computer Animation,
Arts and Technology, Cultural Heritage and Preservation, New Methods and Techniques
applied to Architecture. He was International Jury Member at the
international animation festivals CINANIMA 2000, Portugal, and Anima
Mundi 2001, Brazil.
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He is the head of the
Multimedia, Vision and Computer Graphics group at ISCTE.
He is the head of the following curricular units at ISCTE:
Multimedia & Computer Graphics
Human-Computer Interaction
Audio and Video for Multimedia
Computer Games
Multimedia Management
Computer Aided Design
He is invited professor at the
Escola
Superior de Teatro e Cinema
(Theater and Cinema University)
where he is responsible for
Multimedia Seminars
He was Guest-Editor of the
Special Issue on Digital Arts, Computers & Graphics
- An international journal of systems & applications in
computer graphics, Vol. 29, N. 6,
December 2005
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