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João Correia
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Founder & Manager of Flying Sharks Professor at Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar Education officer at Neptuno Contact details: info@flyingsharks.eu | joao.correia@ipleiria.pt joao.correia@apece.pt | joao.correia@neptuno.pt www.facebook.com/Joao.Pedro.Santos.Correia
Talk Title: Sharks, Mosquitos and Rock & Roll!
What to expect: Prepare for a presentation like you have never seen before… It is about an unusual life story… Adventures with sharks in the Bahamas, nocturnal injections in sharks at the Lisbon Zoo, cargo planes “filled” with animals for Oceanário de Lisboa, marine biology research and classes, enterprise management, a strong Star Wars influence and other unexpected surprises…
Short Biography: João Correia has a Bachelor’s degree in Marine Biology (University of Algarve, 1994), a Master’s degree in Modulation of Marine Resources (Instituto Superior Técnico, 1997) and a PhD in Commercial Fishing of Sharks and Rays in Portugal (University of Aveiro, 2009). He received the award “Prémio do Mar Rei D. Carlos” for his PhD thesis. Since a very young age, João has developed a special fondness for the sea, in particular for sharks. His professional career began in the Lisbon Zoo, where he was responsible for taking care of two sharks. Afterwards, he investigated sharks from the depths of the Portuguese coast at Instituto Português de Investigação Marítima. During the pre-opening of Oceanário de Lisboa and for the following eight years, João was responsible for the acquisition of all animals, including their capture. He is the founder and general manager of Flying Sharks since 2006, an enterprise responsible for the transportation of live marine animals to the whole world and that provides consulting services. João also teaches at Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar. João has already published dozens of articles, book chapters and more than fifty scientific communications in international congresses, including two Best Presentation awards, one in 2012 in Chicago and another in 2013 in Bristol. He has already presented two TEDx talks and more than a hundred of presentations about sharks’ biology and their conservation. His life story is portrayed in a book trilogy entitled “Sex, Sharks and Rock & Roll”, written by him.
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João Lousada
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Systems Flight Control Engineer at International Space Station Member of Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) Co-Lead of the Space Safety and Sustainability project group Contact details: jmclousada@gmail.com www.facebook.com/AA.Joao.Lousada
Mars is one of the most interesting places in our Solar System when it comes to looking for life outside of our planet. In the past, Mars had very similar conditions to those of Earth, with a moderate climate and liquid water, that could have sustained life as we know it. Whether life really developed on Mars and whether it might still exist, is one of the main reasons to explore the red planet. But Mars comes with many challenges that humankind has not faced before and in order to overcome them we need to study and learn as much as we can about them, here on Earth. The OeWF does exactly that: looking for places on Earth that are similar to Mars and testing different technologies and experiments that we might use on Mars.
João graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico, in Portugal, with a Masters in Aerospace Engineering that included studies at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, in Spain, and University of Victoria, in Canada. He has worked in space feasibility concepts at the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) and in satellite assembly, integration and testing at OHB System, for European Space Agency (ESA) projects. Today he is a Systems Flight Control Engineer (STRATOS) for the Columbus Module of the International Space Station. He is also an active member of multiple volunteer organizations related to the space sector, such as the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC), where he has been participating and leading several technical projects as well as acting as co-lead of the Space Safety and Sustainability project group and as National Point of Contact for Portugal. João has also been a part of the core organizing teams of several SGAC events, including national, regional and global events; and recently he was elected SGAC regional coordinator for the European region. He is also an analog astronaut and field commander at the Austrian Space Forum, having taken in multiple analog missions with different space suit simulators. |
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Joana Sá
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Associate Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics Leader of Science and Policy (S&P) research group at Instituto Gulbenkian Ciência (IGC) Contact details: mjsa@igc.gulbenkian.pt
Talk Title: Data Mining for Decision-Making – From disease forecasting to political arguments
What to expect: Every day we generate large amounts of data. Just by going online or using our cell phones, we leave informative traces, the so called “digital breadcrumbs”, which can give away a lot of information about our individual actions. And, when this individual data is gathered and analyzed, it can be very revealing of both individual and global behavior patterns. At the S&P group we ask whether we can use some of these aggregated, anonymized data not only to know more, but also to make better decisions, both at the governmental and citizen levels. During the presentation I’ll focus on how we are analyzing some of these “breadcrumbs” to detect the onset of epidemic diseases, such as the flu, to help predict how many people will show up at the hospital on a given day. I will briefly discuss how we can use similar tools to understand sexual behavior, track non-infectious diseases, and even help keep our politicians in check.
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