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% […]
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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 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 […]
The PROCRYSTAL Project, coordinated by the School of Engineering of UMinho, aims to train a new generation of researchers specialized in crystallization, a technology with the potential to make the production of biopharmaceuticals more efficient, sustainable and accessible. Biopharmaceuticals – medicines whose active substance is of biological origin – are […]
The University of Minho is one of the institutions with the highest number of PhD students awarded Fulbright Commission scholarships this year to carry out research in the United States of America. Ana Rita Luz, from the Department of Economics, will be conducting research at the University of Michigan – […]
Researcher Paulo Lourenço, from the Institute for Sustainability and Innovation in Structural Engineering (ISISE) of the School of Engineering of the University of Minho, received on June 30 a grant of 150 thousand euros from the European Research Council (ERC), to bring to the market a new advanced platform that […]
From assessing Portuguese municipal councils to evaluating more than 3000 public service portals worldwide, the work of INESC TEC researchers Diogo Ribeiro, doctoral student at EEUM, and João Marco Silva, lecturer from EEUM, puts the cybersecurity of public administration at the centre of the debate. Municipal council websites are now […]
From a best poster award to contributions on four distinct fronts. That is how INESC TEC made its mark at EuroSys 2026, one of the most prestigious international conferences in computer systems. The highlight was the presentation of the paper “MinatoLoader: Accelerating Machine Learning Training Through Efficient Data Preprocessing”, authored […]