Fernando Lucas Bação Short CV

Personal Information

Name: Fernando José Ferreira Lucas Bação
Place and date of birth: Lisbon, 03/03/1968
Nationality: Portuguese
Institutional address: Campus de Campolide, 1070-124 Lisboa
Telephone: 351 21 3870413 Telefax: 351 21 3872140
Email: bacao@isegi.unl.pt

Academic degrees, fields of study, awarding institutions

Ph.D. in Information Management, New University of Lisbon, 2005.

Title: “Computational Intelligence in Geographic Information Science Problems: the case of Zone Design”

Chairman: Manuel Vilares,

Supervisors: Marco Painho and Victor Lobo,

Examiners: Michael Goodchild, Robert Barr, Diogo Abreu, Manuel Nazareth, Jorge Arroteia.

Master in Statistics and Information Management, Institute of Statistics and Information Management, New University of Lisbon, 1991 – 1993.

Title: “Os Sistemas de Informação Geográfica e as empresas”

Supervisor: Marco Painho,

Examiners: João Ferrão, Pedro Arroja.

Licenciatura in Geography and Regional Planning, New University of Lisbon, Human and Social Sciences Faculty, 1987 – 1991.

Present position, institution, starting date

Institute of Statistics and Information Management, New University of Lisbon.

Professor Auxiliar

Previous positions, institutions, dates in reverse chronological order

National Center of Geographical Information 1997
Project leader in a research project involving the co-ordination of a team of 6 technicians developing databases and geographic information systems.

DIA Portugal 1996
Site selection executive.

Ipsos Portugal – market studies 1995
Executive research responsible for all the studies carried out in the Computer Aided Telephonic Interviews (cati) system.

Institute of Statistics and Information Management, New University of Lisbon 1995
Research assistant

Awards and Fellowships

1º Place in the Best Paper in the Conference Award (Thematic area of Geography, Oceanography and Environment) - Jornadas do Mar, Portuguese Navy Academy, Lisbon 2004.

ESRI Scholarship, GIScience 2004 Conference, Maryland, USA, October 2004.

3º Place in the Best Paper in the Conference Award - 7th AGILE (Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe), Conference on Geographic Information Science, Heraklion, Greece, 2004.

Best Academic Presentation Award - Annual Conference of SAS Users (CAUS), 2001 Lisbon.

European Science Foundation (ESF) grant, EURESCO Conferences “Socio-Economic Research and Geographic Information Systems - Geographic Information and Analysis in the Social Sciences”, Espinho, Portugal, 1999.

Master Fellowship from National Join of Scientific and Technological Research (JNICT) 1991 – 1993