Pedro Augusto, Astronomy and Astrophysics Consultant & Research Support

About

I am an expert researcher in Astronomy and Astrophysics, excellent at publishing and helping people with it (supervising, tutoring). All steps: literature review, project build up, experimental set up, results and analysis, discussion and conclusion. I am great organising both texts and data. I am also good at consulting, teaching and interacting with the public at large (talks, observing sesssions, hands-on activities, exhibitions). I am good at science writing too.

Experience

Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto

Sep 2011 – Present

Porto

Science Manager

Hired to set up a functional web-based data collecting system on all research activities by staff (lgdf.med.up.pt). This worked for many years as the critical instrument to produce yearly reports on Science Activities of the Faculty. It was swiftly extended to gather data on other areas so that staff were evaluated through the tool until 2019. Plenty of consulting activity of research projects. Now working inside a Department (Neurosciences and Mental Health), doing the same at a smaller level.

University of Madeira

Feb 1998 – Sep 2011

Funchal

Assistant Professor

Went to the University of Madeira to set up a new research group (in Astronomy) as well as a new 5-yr engineering degree course (in Instrumentation & Electronics Astronomy) and also plenty of activites for the public, culminating in the International Year of Astronomy 2009. A seed was left over there (supervised PhD student that now is a Professor).

Education

University of Manchester

Sep 1993 – Aug 1996

Doctor of Philosophy, Radio Astronomy

Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto

Jan 1990 – Jun 1993

4-yrs Licenciate , Astronomy

Pedro Augusto

Astronomy and Astrophysics Consultant & Research Support

Skills

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