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                      Carlos J. S. Alves
                      
                        Institutional Address
                       
                      Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
                         
                        Av. Rovisco Pais 1
 1049-001 LISBOA
                       
                      
                         
                        
                       
                      
                        Phone: +351-218417065 |
                        Email: cjsalves@gmail.com | Web: http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~calves/ 
                      
                        Position
                       
                      Full Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa 
                      
                        Area
                       
                      Applied and Numerical Analysis 
                      
                        
                         
                          Principal Area
                         
                        Numerical Analysis of Differential Equations 
                        
                        
                        
                        
                          Other Area
                         
                        Inverse Problems 
                        
                        
                          Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3834-500X 
Scopus ID: 7102051988 
Qualifications 
    - 2008 Habilitation in Mathematics - Instituto Superior Técnico
 
    - 1995 PhD Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique, France
 
    - 1992 MSc Mathematics, Universidade de Lisboa
 
    - 1988 BSc Mathematics, Universidade de Lisboa
 
 
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                    Projects (coordination) 
    - FCT - POCTI/MAT/60863/2004 - Inverse Problems and Meshless Methods
 
    - FCT - POCTI/MAT/34735/2000 - Inverse Problems and Numerical Analysis in Wave Scattering
 
    - CAPES-GRICES 2011-12 (with M. Colaço) Inverse Problems in the Determination of Conductivities and Source Terms using Fundamental Solutions and Bayesian Methods
 
    - CAPES-GRICES 2004-06 (with H. B. Orlande) Inverse Problems in Identification of Obstacles, Inclusions, Cracks, and Material Inhomogeneities
 
    - NATO CLG 2004-05 (with C.S. Chen) Boundary Meshless Methods for Solving Large Scale Problems
 
    - NATO CLG 2001-03 (with C.S. Chen) The method of fundamental solutions for nonhomogeneous problems
 
 
Prizes 
    - First Prize in Mathematics - Scientific Prizes UTL-Santander-Totta (2009).
 
    - Honorable mention - Scientific Prizes UTL-Santander-Totta (2007)
 
 
Positions (ellection) 
    - Member - Faculty Council - IST (2021-2024)
 
    - Chair of the Department of Mathematics Council (IST, 2017-2020)
 
    - Head of the Department of Mathematics (IST, 2005-06)
 
    - Head of Unit (DM-IST, 1999-2000)
 
    - Member - Faculty Statutary Assembly IST (2008-09)
 
    - Substitute - University Statutary Assembly UTL (2007-08)
 
    - Member - Faculty Council - IST (2009-2012)
 
 
PhD Thesis Supervision 
    - Svilen Stanimirov Valtchev: Numerical Analysis of Methods with Fundamental Solutions for Acoustic and Elastic Wave Propagation Problems. (IST, 05/12/2008)
 
    - Pedro Ricardo Simão Antunes: The Method of Fundamental Solutions Applied to Eigenproblems.  (IST, 12/12/2008)
 
    - Nuno Filipe Marcelino Martins: Mathematical and numerical methods for inverse problems using fundamental solutions techniques. (Univ. Nova de Lisboa, 23/06/2009, co-supervisor: E. Coimbra)
 
    - Marcelo Leonardo dos Santos Rainha: Aspectos da Teoria do Potencial aplicados a Problemas Inversos de Reconstrução de Fonte. (Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro, 11/12/2012, co-supervisor, supervisor: N. Roberty - Nuclear Eng. Dep.)
 
    - Luiz Alberto da Silva Abreu: Identificação de Falhas de Contato em Compósitos Laminados. (Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro, 05/12/2014, co-supervisor, supervisor: M. Colaço, H. Orlande - Mech. Eng. Dep.)
 
    - Roberto Mamud Guedes da Silva:  Problema Inverso de Identificação e Reconstrução de Fontes em Equações Elípticas (Univ. Fed. Rio de Janeiro, 31/03/2016, co-supervisor, supervisor: N. Roberty - Nuclear Eng. Dep.)
 
 
 MSc Thesis Supervision 
    - Paula Ribeiro (IST, 1999)
 
    - Pedro Serranho (IST, 2003)
 
    - Bruno Pereira (IST, 2004)
 
    - Pedro Antunes (IST, 2004)
 
    - André Vasconcelos (IST, 2007)
 
    - Inês Estrela Oliveira (IST, 2008)
 
    - Daniela Pamplona (IST, 2008) with A. Bernardino
 
    - Catarina Vaz (IST, 2009) with A. B. Cruzeiro
 
    - Margarida Fernandes (IST, 2009) with A. B. Cruzeiro
 
    - Manuela Almeida (IST, 2015) with M.R. Oliveira
 
    - Mafalda Ceyrat (IST,  2015) with J. Figueira
 
    - Matilde Rosa (IST, 2016)
 
    - Jéssica Perfeito (IST, 2017) with J. Bandeiras
 
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