Schools and Merit Distinctions:

2011                            Participation in the course in Blended Learning FBL’01 with 104 hours and 4 ECTS. It took place between 26 November 2010 and 16 Mars 2011 by the Open University in a virtual environment.

2011                            Participation in the course Introdução à Análise de Redes Sociais (Introduction to Social Network Analysis) including themes as the major concepts, theory, methods and applications of social network analysis, using the software UCINET VI. The course was taught by Professor Marta Pedro Varanda assistant researcher of the ICS - Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, on 13 and 14 May 2011 in Ponta Delgada. The course had no evaluation.

2010                            Qualification as a 'friend' of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) 8.3 Group: Decision Support Systems.

2010                            Participation on the “State of the Art Workshop” organized by EURO XXIV conference. Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.

2010                            Participação no Spring Green Islands Open Session com uma comunicação intitulada “Green Island Field Energy Monitoring” realizada na Universidade dos Açores.

2007                            Participation on the technical regional meeting on “e-learning”, organized by the Câmara do Comércio e Indústria de Ponta Delgada on the Regional Lab of Civil Engineering, Ponta Delgada.

2007                            IASC - ERS Advanced Summer School on “Statistical Learning: Data Mining and Regression Tools”, Univeristà Degli Studi di Napoli – L’Orientale, island of Procida, Italy.

2007                            Participation on the workshop on “Correspondence Analysis in Practicelinked to the conference XV JOCLAD, with instructor Prof. Michael Greenacre, ISEP, Portugal.

2007                            Participation on the workshop on “Data Mining with R: Learning by case studieslinked to the conference XV JOCLAD, with instructor Prof. Luís Torgo, ISEP, Portugal.

2006                            School on .NET 2.0: C#, ADO.NET and Windows Forms, with instructors from the Centro de Cálculo do Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Ponta Delgada.

2005                            Public acknowledgment for relevant contribution to the Development of Logistics [Portuguese], granted by the APLOG – Portuguese Logistic Association.

2004                            Honour distinction for the best scientific article in Marketing with a young Portuguese author [Portuguese], granted by the ADMES/Marktest.

2003                            IASC – IFS Joint International Summer School on “Classification and Data Mining in Business, Industry and Applied Research Methodological and Computational Issues”, Lisbon University: Portugal.