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Personal information
Name: Artur Palha da Silva Clérigo
Address: Rua Nery Delgado nº 8-2º esq. 1170-272 Lisboa - Portugal
Telephone: (+351) 218147739; Mobile phone: (+351) 918173496
email: aclerigo (at) lnec (dot) pt
Birth: 10.12.1980 in Lisboa, Portugal
Professional experience
2006 - present: LNEC - National Laboratory of Civil Engineering (Portugal)
Research fellow at NPE, the Harbours and Maritime Structures Group. Main work in linear and non-linear wave propagation, focusing on the application of numerical models to test and real cases, development of real-time forecast and warning systems for harbours and landslide wave generation models.
2005 - 2006: Netplan - Telecommunications and Energy
Division of Renewable Energies. Design of solar thermal and photovoltaic systems and energy efficiency in buildings.
Academics
2004: Licenciatura in Technological Physical Engineering
5 years diploma by Superior Technical Institute (IST), Technical University of Lisbon (UTL). Final grade of 17 out of 20. Final year project in National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Inovation (INETI) on a Computational model of a PEM fuel cell, supervisor PhD. Antonio Joyce and co-supervisor PhD. Manuel Collares-Pereira, final grade of 19 out of 20.
Scholarships
2002 - 2003: NA60 experiment at CERN
Funding through Science and Technology Foundation (FCT): 8 months funding for collaboration with NA60 experiment in a joint project between the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and Fundamental Physical Interactions Center (CFIF), under supervision of PhD. Joao Seixas.
Courses
2007: Mathematical Methods in Coastal Engineering (Univ. of Plymouth)
15 days course at Univ. of Plymouth.
2007: High Performance Computing (PDC - KTH University)
15 days course at the PDC center in KTH university
Conferences
2007: ISOPE 2007, Lisbon
Palha, A.; Fortes, J.; Mase, H.: Numerical simulation of wave runup on seawall near shoreline with FUNWAVE model
Pinheiro, L.; Palha, A.; Fortes, J.; Walkley, M.: Internal wave generation on finite element model BOUSS1D_iw: comparison with experimental data
2007: 5th Portuguese conference on coastal and harbour engineering
Palha, A.: pyMOIA: Real-time forecast of wave state in harbour areas
Hokamoto, T.; Fortes, J.; Palha, A.: Analysis of the Funwave wave breaking formulation
Computer Skills
OS: Win32s and UNIX-like
Programming: C (good), C++ (beginner), Fortran 9X (good), Python (good), Matlab (good), Mathematica (good), Simulink (good), OPENMP (beginner), MPI (beginner)
Software: FEMLAB (beginner), Ecotect (good), Energy+ (good), Radiance (beginner), LATEX (good), Microcal Origin (good), Autodesk Autocad (good), Labview (good), Golden Software Surfer (good), Tecplot (good), Paraview (beginner), Mayavi (beginner).
Hardware: Assembly programming (with Microchip PIC microprocessors)