BA in Communication Design (2003), MA in Multimedia Art (2007) and PhD in Digital Media (2013) from the University of Porto. In 2020, he completed a Post-Doctorate in Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the School of Design of the Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave (IPCA) and Director of the MA in Digital Design.
He is an Integrated Researcher of the Research Institute for Design, Media and Culture (ID+), where he has focused his research in the area of Communication Design for Digital Media. He is currently Principal Investigator (PI) of the project “ECHO – Echoing the Communal Self: designing the dissemination and replication of self-initiated practices in underprivileged urban communities in a post-pandemic world”, funded by FCT (EXPL/ART-DAQ/0037/2021); and has participated, as a team member, in several funded research projects. He is member of the editorial board of several scientific journals and was co-editor of more than several scientific publications in the area of Design, namely chapter books and proceedings of international conferences.
He is the Founder and Chair of DIGICOM – International Conference on Design & Digital Communication (http://digicom.ipca.pt); and Co-Chair of International Conference on Human Dynamics and Design for the Development of Contemporary Societies, conference track of AHFE (USA).
He has won numerous awards, namely: 3 Graphis Gold Award (2021, 2015 and 2014, USA); 2 Graphis Silver Award (2020 and 2014, USA); 1st prize – Mascot of the Oceanário of Lisbon; 1st prize – Mascot of the Water Pavilion of Porto; 1st prize – Porto Digital logo; 1st Prize “Winner Online” in the contest Webdesign 2004, promoted by ESTAL. Some of his design projects appear in over two dozen books on Communication Design, published in Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, USA, Austria, Netherlands, France, China and UK.
Dr
Sherif Welsen is an associate professor in the
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, the University of
Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC). He received his MSc.
from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Cairo,
in 2006 and Ph.D. from Ain-Shams University in 2010. He
has been with UNNC since November 2013. He is the
faculty senior tutor since 2017. He is also the founder
and head of the Science and Engineering research group.
He led teaching and learning in the faculty of science
and engineering from 2017 to 2021 when he served as the
faculty deputy director of teaching and learning and the
director of teaching and learning. Dr Welsen had a
scientist position in Shenzhen from 2011 to 2013. He had
an assistant professor position in Egypt from 2010 to
2011 and as an associate lecturer and researcher from
2004 to 2010. His research interest includes blended
learning, digital reading, wireless communications,
coding techniques for emerging wireless technologies,
location estimation, and digital chip design.
Mikie Nishiyama is associate professor in the Postgraduate School, Tokyo Healthcare University, and Ph.D. candidate of the University of Tokyo. M.A. in Linguistics from the University of London, M.A. from Kyoto University and M.A. from the University of Tokyo. She is currently a director of the Japan Society of English for Research (J-SER). She is in charge of the graduate-level English for academic purposes course and undergraduate-level English courses at Tokyo Healthcare University. Research interests include machine translation in foreign language education. Her current research project is investigating the appropriate use of machine translation in foreign language learners’ writing.
He is a
university faculty member at the Technological
University of the Philippines (TUP) and formerly serve
as Board of Director of the TUP under the Philippines
Commission of Higher Education. Currently he is a
research fellow at the University of Tokyo under the
MEXT program working research on the Human Resource
Development and sustainability in the field of
Engineering Education. His research focuses on Human
Resource Management and Development in multigenerational
cohorts, Technology Education, and Educational
Management.
Currently, he is working on research about educational
technology and behavioral intentions among secondary
students toward distinct allied field courses in Nuclear
Science, Technology, and Engineering. Recently, he was
invited to present his research findings at the United
Nations Scientific Conference in Vienna in November 2023
and July 2024 in Vienna, Austria, emphasizing the
importance of identifying the factors that influence the
next generation to pursue Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) courses to meet
future workforce requirements towards its
sustainability.
Dr.
Ding, researcher of Hainan University. Her research
interests include educational big data and learning
analysis. She presided over six projects including two
projects funded by NSFC, won the second prize of
educational science research achievements in Zhejiang
Province, and published more than 20 SSCI / SCI/CSSCI
papers.
