I´m a curious person who loves to do my own things… which rarely come out twice equal…

I’d been working on Research and Development of Digital Technologies since 2000 since my main qualifications filed is Computer engineering. I’d designed,
managed and coordinated R&D projects at national and European level.

In 2006 I’d meet Neil Gershenfeld in a lecture he made in my faculty here in Portugal, and from them on I’d kept a close attention to what was being done in “Center of Bits and Atoms”. In 2009 with his help we’d organized a public seminar in Lisbon where I’d meet Alex Schaub from Waag Society which turned to be an excellent and pro-active guide for my mission as “Fab Labs Evangelist” in Portugal from then on.

Today there’s more than a dozen of Fab Labs in Portugal, some making it more accordingly to MIT and Fab Labs Network fashion than other’s, and by the way I’d worked with a Portuguese University – Universidade Nova de Lisboa, so to have a double certification for Fab Academy, providing ECTS for the Fab Masters that concluded the course with success.

I’m a fan and Evangelist of the Fab Labs attitude, values and principles for a long, and being part of Fabricademy will be one amazing achievement where I can capitalize acquired competencies in R&D and Technology Innovation career and gain new competencies to proceed as Maker and stylist in an open and sustained approach, integrating my “Hobby”/”Second life” in one sible career path.

This is backed with the fact that from my early years of professional activity that I’d kept a second activity as Stylist. It started with a post-secondary course on Fashion Design and Stylist in 1999 and a Stylist specialization course in 2001. From 2000 on I’d managed to have as main activity the executive roles in R&D and Innovation in Digital Technologies, and as secondary activity being stylist (making clothes, accessories, interior design, and things around, for myself and my social circle).

By being part of projects and networks of European R&D projects in Future and Emerging Technologies I’m aware and known about the most of the modules of the Fabricademy program, from biomaterials, 3D printing, new materials, production processes in textile and fashion industry, distributed and open fabrication, open society and circular economy, robotics, new materials, aesthetics and digital humanities, wearables and bio engineering, skin electronics, and so on. In my PhD studies I started to read more around Sociology and Economics of technology and decided to research the Openness of Technology R&D – Open Source HW and SW, Open Communities and Open
Culture, Open Innovation, Open Education, so to design open design and management methodologies for Digital Technologies.

But I miss the “Making” experience and the “Making” network to do and create effective works of art and technology – another reasons I'm doing Fabricademy.

I hope that I can contribute to Fabricademy global growth by stablishing connection with Portugal: research teams on new materials, biochemistry, bioengineering, robotics, artificial intelligence intelligence, to mention a few, but also with Portuguese fab labs and Makers spaces, creative hubs, or with the Portuguese Industry Clusters.