On October 15, in a ceremony held in Barcelona, the “la Caixa” Foundation distinguished Miguel Gama, from the Center for Biological Engineering (CEB) of the School of Engineering of UMinho, awarding a sum of 150 thousand euros from the “CaixaImpulse for Innovation in Health”. Miguel Gama will lead a project […]
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The group of friends is gathered, hunger begins to tighten and someone asks the inevitable question: where are we going to eat? Almost always dozens of searches on the cell phone, comparisons and a lot of discussion follow. Carlos Beiramar knew this routine well and, from there, decided to find […]
The University of Minho has 71 scientists in the group of the 2% most cited in the world over the last year, 40 of whom belong to the School of Engineering, according to a study by Stanford University (USA) and the Elsevier publishing group. The list, called “World’s Top 2% […]
Vanessa Cardoso, assistant researcher at the Center for Research in Electromechanical Microsystems (CMEMS) at EEUM, was at the Tec2Med Summit, representing the University of Minho. The congress had as its theme “Action over Reaction | Building Preventive Healthcare Systems” and took place on the 10th and 11th of October, at […]
The ceremony of the UMinho Award for Initiation in Scientific Research 2026 took place on October 9, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm, in auditorium B1 (building 2) of the Gualtar campus, in Braga. The opening was attended by the Vice-Rector for Education and Academic Organization, Cristina Dias. Two dozen […]
Researchers Sandro Pinto and Tiago Gomes, from the Embedded Systems Research Group (ESRG) of the ALGORITMI Center of the University of Minho, organized this week an international workshop dedicated to RISC-V technology, which brought together experts from some of the world’s leading companies in the semiconductor and computer systems sectors, […]
António Gomes Correia, professor emeritus of the Department of Civil Engineering of the School of Engineering of UMinho (EEUM), was appointed editor emeritus of “Transportation Geotechnics”, a scientific journal of international reference in this area. António Gomes Correia founded and was editor for 10 years of this publication of the […]
Led by CEB and in partnership with ICVS and the University of Vigo, the CheMAP project uses genetic screening to identify mechanisms that make triple-negative breast cancer (one of the most aggressive) resistant to chemotherapy, to find genetic vulnerabilities in these tumor cells and potential therapeutic targets. It lasts until […]
The work by INESC TEC and University of Minho researchers examines whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) can already replace traditional methods for deciding how a database responds to queries. Luís França and José Pereira, researchers at INESC TEC and the University of Minho, received the Best Paper award at INForum 2026 […]
Alaize Dall’Orsoletta, researcher at the ALGORITMI Centre, was awarded the Most Cited Paper award at the 21st Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems – 2026 SDEWES Conference, which took place in Gran Canaria, Spain. The researcher received the award for the article entitled “Low-carbon technologies and […]
The ALGORITMI Center, through LASI – Associated Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, organized between September 17th and 19th the INISTA Conference 2026 (International Conference on INnovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications). The event brought together experts in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Guimarães, namely teachers, researchers and professionals from […]
Researchers Estela Bicho, Flora Ferreira, Paulo Barbosa and Wolfram Erlhagen received the Best Paper Award by the European Neural Networks Society, for the article “A Dynamic Neural Field Model of Chronotopic Map Formation” at ICANN26- 35th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. The conference took place from 14 to 17 […]