About Us

Ana Brito e Melo holds a PhD (2000) and a Master (1995) in Mechanical Engineering and 5-year degree in Civil Engineering (1992) from the IST (Instituto Superior Técnico) of the Technical University in Lisbon. Ana has more than 20 years of experience in marine renewable energies, starting from tank tests and numerical modelling, towards technology assessment, site selection and market studies. She was Executive Director of WavEC during 8 years (Jan 2012 – July 2020). She is further responsible for the operational management of the international organization IEA-OES.

Post Graduate in Digital Marketing at IPAM Marketing School (2020-2021). Degree in Social and Cultural Communication at the Universidade Católica de Lisboa (1998). Experienced communication professional responsible for all communication and dissemination activities within WavEC and its projects. Skilled in communication planning, digital & social media and offline content creation, event management, public outreach and engagement, and internal communication. www.linkedin.com/in/janetegoncalves

Bachelor's degree, with honours, in International Journalism at Liverpool John Moores University. Filipa joined the Communication team in 2022 to assist with all communication and dissemination activities within WavEC and its projects.

PhD in Mechanical Engineering by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). Degree in Oceanography/Meteorology by Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (FCUL). Senior researcher and project manager in offshore renewable energy projects. Research and consultancy activity in offshore renewable energy economics, resource assessment and site selection.

5-year degree in Marine Engineering by Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Acquired experience in multidisciplinary projects in the O&G sector for Petrobras before moving to Lisbon in 2019 and obtaining a master’s degree in Energy Engineering and Management by Instituto Superior Técnico. Since then, has been gaining experience in energy markets and solutions related to renewable energy. Paula joined Wavec in 2022 to integrate the research team by performing life cycle and socio-economic analyses within offshore renewable energy projects.

Master’s degree in Renewable Energy Systems Technology at Loughborough University, UK, with specialisation in offshore wind and advanced solar. Craig worked in solar system design and smart buildings at Swansea University for 2 years, before moving to Lisbon in 2019. Craig joined WavEC in 2020 in the scope of the FLOAWER ITN to work on the development of techno-economic tools and databases for offshore wind and he will enroll in a PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico.

Laura is a Civil Engineer and holds a PhD in Ocean and Coastal Engineering, a MSc in Environmental Hydraulics, and Post-Graduations in Project Management and Solar and Wind Energy. Since 2010, she has been gathering experimental and numerical modelling experience in offshore renewable energies and coastal engineering. In her PhD, she studied the impact of large monopile offshore wind farms on waves. Laura joined WavEC in 2023 to support the implementation of offshore renewable projects and work in techno-economic analysis for offshore renewable energy systems.

Francisco is a senior engineer with over eight years of experience in the offshore renewable energy sector. Francisco holds a MSc in Mechanical Engineering and a Postgraduate in Sustainable Energy Systems. His work has been focussed on techno-economic and pre-feasibility (pre-FEED) studies, resource assessment, prototype testing, O&M and logistic assessments for offshore wind (in particular floating wind) as well as other marine renewable energy projects.

Master in Electrotechnical and Computer Engineering at IST. With 7 years of experience in engineering (more than 4 in the Offshore Energy sector), he has a multi-disciplinary skill-set and has been working in a broad range of European Research Projects and Consultancy Services, from Offshore Logistics to Electrical Permitting. Currently, he is supporting the electrical infrastructure development and licensing of both Wave and Offshore Wind projects. Luís is also the lead software developer of some WavEC’s in-house tools, having contributed to most offshore logistic studies delivered by WavEC.

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico of Torino. Alessandra joined WavEC in 2022 to work as a Project Engineer with Marine Renewable Energies

Mário is a Mechanical Engineer and a PhD from the Univ. of Lisbon. Mário has been gathering expertise on offshore renewable energy, both at experimental (operations at the Pico Wave Plant) and numerical simulation levels, for the past 10 years. In his PhD, he evaluated the viability of using monitoring systems on the structures of offshore wind. Mario has been an Invited Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal. At WavEC, Mário’s expertise supports economic feasibility studies, experimental testing, O&M assessments and structural compliance studies of marine renewable energy projects.

Leonardo has a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from IST Lisbon. With a background in data science, computer vision, and control systems, he joined the Engineering and Operations team as a research engineer.

Inês holds a Master’s degree in marine sciences from the University of Porto and a PhD in marine sciences from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Her research is focused on the assessment of effects of human activities on the marine environment, looking into the environmental impacts of offshore renewable energy projects e.g., benthic communities, underwater noise, biofouling growth and impacts on marine mammals. She is a lecturer in IST, on environmental aspects of offshore technologies, marine spatial planning and GIS tools to support site selection of renewables.

Degree in Biology, MSc in Ecology and PhD in Biosciences – Marine Ecology, at the University of Coimbra. Pedro is working in the Environmental team with focus on marine benthic communities.

Master's degree in Marine Vertebrate Ecology and Conservation from the University of Exeter, specialising in Marine Bioacoustics. Luana joined WavEC in 2021 to work on environmental monitoring, focusing on research of underwater noise and the impacts on marine mammals.

Bachelor's degree in Marine Science and Master’s degree in Marine and Coastal Systems at the University of Algarve. Miguel is part of the Environment and Licensing team, working in the different areas of environmental monitoring, supporting campaigns for data acquisition and the development of spatial planning and analysis tools to support renewable energy site selection

5-year degree in Marine Engineering, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering by Instituto Superior Técnico (IST). João accumulates 20 years of experience as a researcher on the modelling of the potential and viscous flow around rotors and floating structures. In parallel, João has taught courses such as Fluid Mechanics, Resistance and Propulsion of Ships, Offshore Wind Energy, Marine Current & Tidal Energy and Modelling and Control of Ocean Energy Systems.

Degree in Physics Engineering and master degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. He started his Phd recently. Researcher on modeling activities.

Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from IST Lisbon (2010) and PhD in Wind Energy from the TUDelft (2016). Ricardo has more than 10 years of experience in Wind Energy and Marine Renewables' science and technology. He did consultancy for industry, conceptual prototype design, experimental laboratory work and developed analytical and computational tools. He has worked as a lecturer over the last years, developing the online course 'Technology of Offshore Wind Farms' at the TUDelft and currently he is the responsible for the IST course 'Offshore Wind Energy'.

Postgraduation in Marketing at ISCTE and Degree in Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE). Her role at WavEC is focused on Financial Management.

Degree in Business Organization and Management at Universidade Moderna-Porto. Her role at WavEC is focused on giving support to Financial Management.

With more than 15 years of experience in the administrative and commercial area, Ângela performs secretarial, human resources, management support and other administrative tasks at Wavec. She has a Higher Education Course in Secretarial and Administration Assistance.

After graduating from the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) with a degree in Electrotechnics and Computer Science Engineering, he chose to join Accenture consulting company, where he spent 15 years specializing in software development and acquisition, IT architectures, IT organizational models, project management, and digital transformation. At TAP, he led the IT's Digital Innovation and Strategy team. At the moment, the emphasis is on strategic consulting and digital transformation for the aviation and tourism industries. At WavEC he participates on ILIAD – Digital Twin of the Oceans project.