Electrical engineer · researcher · systems builder
I design intelligent systems for electric mobility and flexible power grids.
My research combines optimization, artificial intelligence, and simulation to help fleets, utilities, and cities plan and operate electric vehicles, smart charging, and V2G systems.
About
My work develops quantitative and computational methods for electric vehicles and energy systems, with particular emphasis on smart charging, vehicle-to-grid services, aggregators, battery degradation, energy markets, and grid-aware operation.
I build models that are rigorous enough to defend in review and concrete enough to hand to an operator — which is why most of my research ships with code, and why the strongest results have become software.
I hold a PhD in Sustainable Energy Systems from the University of Coimbra, completed summa cum laude, an MSc in Energy for Sustainability, and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas, including an exchange program at the Technical University of Munich.
Career
IMaTS Lab, McGill University, Canada
INESC Coimbra / University of Coimbra, Portugal
University of Sherbrooke, Canada
University of Coimbra, Portugal · Summa cum laude
University of Coimbra, Portugal
University of Campinas, Brazil
Awards
Funding and fellowships
Selected impact
Systems that connect electric mobility, intelligent decision-making, and the power grid — each grounded in a real operational result.
Electric bus operations · cold climates
+30% winter energy demand
V2G · battery-aware fleet charging
−37% operating cost · −12% under the robust model
Autonomous EVs · grid resilience
28% of local energy needs supplied
Research agenda
Models rigorous enough for research and practical enough to support decisions by utilities, aggregators, fleet operators, charging providers, and public institutions.
Planning, fleet sizing, charging infrastructure, and reliability.
Bidirectional charging, aggregators, tariffs, and grid services.
Agent-based models, energy prediction, and digital twins.
Optimization, uncertainty, policy, and multi-criteria analysis.
Publications
26 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers, and book chapters, plus two preprints, on electric mobility, energy systems, and decision analysis.
Agent-based simulation and optimization framework for electric bus operations under climate and operational variability.
Optimization framework coupling mobility service and backup power supply under outage conditions.
How transit fleets can act as grid assets through aggregator-coordinated V2G.
Multi-criteria evaluation of environmental impact beyond carbon accounting alone.
In Wiring the Future: Financial Strategies, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Sustainable Energy Transition.
Framework for participatory transportation planning under synthetic preference data.
Life cycle assessment combined with multi-criteria decision analysis to compare commuting alternatives.
In Desafios Societais e a Investigação em Direito.
Platforms and commercialization
Research models become reproducible frameworks, then applied software, and — through Nextdriv — tools that fleet operators can run themselves.
Research commercialization
Founder and Research Lead
A decision-support platform for electric fleet planning and operations — charging infrastructure, battery degradation, and energy-system analysis — turning the research models on this page into tools operators can actually run.
Visit Nextdriv ↗Supporting research tools
Planning and operating electric bus fleets: smart charging, load management, peak shaving, and grid-aware coordination.
Lifecycle-aware modelling: degradation-aware optimization, hybrid physics and machine-learning models, and battery cost/lifetime trade-offs.
EV–grid interaction at system scale: charging demand, infrastructure stress, load analysis, and optimization coupling.
News and public engagement
Publications, awards, talks, and media coverage. Select an item to read the full update, or follow along on LinkedIn.
Received 1st place in the PhD category of the APREN Award 2026, promoted by APREN (Associação Portuguesa de Energias Renováveis) in its 11th edition. The award recognized my PhD thesis, “Adaptive Energy Management Strategies for Electric Bus Fleets: A Hybrid Approach with Artificial Intelligence and Optimisation Methods,” developed at the University of Coimbra within the Doctoral Program in Sustainable Energy Systems — on how artificial intelligence and optimization can support the energy management of electric bus fleets, enabling smarter charging and more sustainable urban mobility.
Read the announcement ↗My work was cited in a Forbes article by Karl Moore (originally published July 2025) on why smart charging is key to successful electric bus fleet operations. Fleet electrification is an operational challenge connecting vehicles, chargers, energy costs, batteries, and the grid — and smart charging is what turns that complexity into reliable, scalable public transport.
Read the Forbes article ↗Presented my work on electric mobility and integrated optimization for energy and transport systems at the interdisciplinary workshop “Climate, Emissions, and Energy in Transportation: Integrated Approaches for Sustainable Mobility” at McGill University, where climate modeling, infrastructure resilience, emissions monitoring, and EV operations were all part of the same conversation.
See on LinkedIn ↗Presented “Planning Resilient Electric Bus Operations: An Agent-Based Simulation–Optimization Framework” at the Pan-American Society of Transportation Research webinar (April 14, 2026), combining simulation and optimization to capture electric bus system complexity — constraints, energy dynamics, and uncertainty — as fleets become linked with the power grid.
See on LinkedIn ↗An agent-based simulation and optimization framework for electric bus fleets under weather variability, charging strategies, and grid constraints. In a Quebec City case study, winter can increase energy demand by up to 30%, and while fast charging lowers upfront costs, slow charging enables smoother grid integration and lower costs over time. Published in Elsevier Applied Energy.
Read the paper ↗Visited the University of Luxembourg and the SnT (Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust) within the AUDACE project for technical discussions on intelligent and agent-based vehicles, robustness, and safe AI deployment. I also toured the Ville de Luxembourg electric bus depot and rode CFL’s autonomous minibuses — autonomy and electrification being tested and operated in real systems today.
See on LinkedIn ↗Writing and audio
Essays and public-facing reflections on electric mobility, sustainability, research, and technology adoption.
Conversations about science, society, technology, sustainability, and the future of complex systems.
