Faculty Member, Departamento de História e de Estudos Políticos e Internacionais
About
I am a professor at the University of Porto (http://www.up.pt), Portugal, where I belong to the Department of History, Political and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts (http://www.letras.up.pt)
I am also a member of the CITCEM Research Centre of the University of Porto. In the CITCEM I am member of the Memory and Identity group that focuses on the study of social and cultural identities and heritage studies.
My scientific interests include agent based modelling applied to historical dynamics, social and economic networks, micro-history, maritime communities and self-organizing networks. These topics are applied to my direct interests on the Portuguese Overseas Expansion and the European Colonization in the Early Modern Age.
Multi and trans disciplinarily research is one of my current challenges.
My current and former research projects:
- I am a PI (Principal Investigator) of the Portuguese team of the international and interdisciplinary project DynCoppNet (Dynamic Complexity of Cooperation-Based Self-Organizing Networks in the First Global Age (ESF: 06-TECT-FP-004; FCT: TECH/0002/2007 (Project of European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme’s program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading”. For more information on the overall project see Jack Owens page: http://idahostate.academia.edu/JBJackOwens . For the Portuguese project and team see http://dyncoopnet-pt.org/
- I am the PL (Project leader) of an interdisciplinary project submitted to FCT on Maritime memories and identities. Cultures, practices and representations of maritime communities. (Acronym: MEMIMAR) (PTDC/HIS-HEC/102786/2008)
I am a member of a submitted project to FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) on Evolutionary Mechanisms of self-organised cooperation (PTDC/CS-ANT/115237/2009)
- I was the PL of the multidisciplinary project Hisportos – Portuguese Northwestern seaports (15th-18th. Centuries) (POCTI/HAR/36417/2000) (www.hisportos.com ) and the coordinator of the team of REDINPORT (Reconstitution of the dynamics of NW Portuguese Seaports in teh Early Modern Age), as member of the Instituto de História Moderna – Universidade do Porto.
My teaching activity is currently centred on Scientific Methodologies applied to Social Sciences, mostly related to transdisciplinary studies; History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion and History of European Colonization. I am a member of the Scientific Committees of the Master in History and Heritage and the PhD in History, both of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto
