Instituto Superior Técnico Universitade de Lisboa (IST)
https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/
Description of the research group
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) is the largest engineering school in Portugal and supports BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Mining Engineering. The Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente (CERENA), a research unit from IST, supports the training and education of IST in these areas. IST will provide training in scientific disciplines related to the characterization of waste deposits through innovative methods of geophysical inversion and stochastic mine planning with real-time assimilation of direct measurements with different resolution and uncertainty levels. Research facilities:
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV): Several UAV equipped with multiple sensors (optical cameras and LiDAR) for mapping and monitoring land surfaces with unprecedented detail.
Scientific computing hub: Scientific computing hub supported in an OpenStack open-source virtualization platform, that manages a pool of 1368 computing cores with a total RAM of 6 528GB; raw storage of 1656 TBytes complemented by 8 GPUs that jointly sustain a computing power of up to 125.6 single-precision flops.
CERENA GeoLab: Geoscience and geoeng lab equipped to study raw materials from mineralogical, etrological, geochemical & geomechanical characterization and mineral and waste processing tests including an X-Ray microtomography, a JK Batch Flotation Cell, a core flooding unit and a High-Pressure Tri-Axial Cell GCTS.
High-performance IT infrastructure: A high-performance workstation with Core i9 7900x with 64GB RAM and two dual Nvidia 1070Ti is available to process big data (technical specification at the end of 2022).
CERENA Imaging: Lab Imaging lab equipped with a nanoCT (SkyScan 2214) to imaging natural and non-natural materials at the nanoscale.
Leonardo Azevedo
- Associate professor at the Department of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering (DER)
- Supervising 10 PhD students, Publications: 140.
- Research interests: geophysical inverse problems, geostatistical modelling, uncertainty assessment in earth sciences, data integration.
- Teaching: seismic characterization of petroleum reservoirs, geophysics, seminars of advanced topics of petroleum engineering, geostatistics, geophysical digital signal processing
Gustavo Paneiro
- Assistant professor at at the Department of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering (DER)
- Supervising 5 PhD students, Publications: 36.
- Research interests: Mining Engineering, Mining, Rock Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering, Tunneling, Slope Stability, Geomechanics, Geotechnics, Modelling Slope Stability, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Computational Geomechanics.
- Teaching: Grand Challenges and the Earth Resources, Instrumentation and Signal Acquisition in Geoengineering, Computational Geomechanics, Modelling of Underground Structures, System Simulation and Optimization Models
Amélia Dionísio
- Associate Professor at at the Department of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering (DER)
- Supervising 6 PhD. Students, Publications: 69
- Research interests: Diagnosis and conservation of stone used in built heritage and common buildings; Application of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT); Petrophysics; Minerochemical studies; Digitalization in the natural stone industry; Circular Economy, valorization, and sustainability in the natural stone sector Teaching: Mineralogy; Earth Sciences; Geology for Civil Engineering; Mining Geology;
João Narciso
- Researcher at CERENA-IST and Invited Assistant Professor at the Department of Mineral and Energy Resources Engineering (DER)
- Supervising 3 MSc Students, Publications: 10
- Research interests: geophysical data acquisition, interpretation and inversion; geostatistics for data integration and computational near surface modelling; Geo-spatial data science applied to geophysics; Deep learning methods for soil and subsoil modelling and characterization.
- Teaching: Geophysical Interpretation and Inversion, Computational Geomechanics.