Helena Fernandez Lopez (531C-0998-577F)

Curriculum Vitae

Helena Fernandez Lopez

Helena Fernández López has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Minho (UM) since November 2019, when she was awarded the Proef/dstelecom/IB-S Chair, which is co-financed by two large Portuguese companies, Proef SGPS and dstelecom. She is currently Principal Investigator of the NETEDGE project (ANI grant > 2M €) and supervises a PhD. student and five Masters’ students. She has over 30 years of professional experience, having previously worked as Technical Director of eHealth at GRADIANT, an R&D center in Spain, for almost 8 years. In Portugal, in addition to UM, she worked in a consulting company and in two professional schools. In addition, she served in the Brazilian Navy Corps of Engineers for 16 years, working in research, project management and maintenance of electronic systems. She obtained her PhD in 2011, at the University of Minho, in the Design Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing course (EDAM-MIT Portugal Program). She holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering (2005), from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and a BA in Electrical Engineering (1988), from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). During her stay at GRADIANT, Helena coordinated several research projects in collaboration with the industry, funded through open calls. Of note is the European project PERSIST (Horizon 2020, ID: 875406, 5M euros), which she coordinated until she left GRADIANT. She has experience as an evaluator of research proposals for several organizations, including the European Commission, the Carlos III Health Institute, where she was a member of the Public Health Panel for three years, and the regional government of the Basque Country. Currently, her main interests are Telecommunications Networks and Artificial Intelligence.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Helena Fernandez Lopez

Citation names

Lopez, Helena
Helena Fernandez-Lopez

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 531C-0998-577F
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6069-2289

Email addresses

hfernandez@ib-s.uminho.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

911527627 (Personal)

Addresses

Universidade do Minho, Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga , Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

http://ib-s.uminho.pt/proef-dstelecom-ib-s-chair/ (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Electrotechnical Engineering, Electronics and Informatics - Telecommunications
Engineering and Technology - Medical Engineering - Medical Engineering

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Galician	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2007/10/01 - 2011/09/30 Concluded	Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing (Doctor) Universidade do Minho, Portugal "Remote Vital Signs Monitoring Based on Wireless Sensor Networks" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2003/03/01 - 2005/04/30 Concluded	Electrical Engineering (Master) Major in Digital Signal Processing Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1984/03/01 - 1988/12/31 Concluded	Electrical Engineering (Bachelor) Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/01/01 - 2012/03/31	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Minho Departamento de Engenharia de Polímeros, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/11/04 - Current	Invited Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/04/01 - 2019/10/31	Technical director	Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain

2011/10/15 - 2011/12/20	Responsible for the development of research project applications	Innovayt, Portugal

2006/09/01 - 2007/07/31	Professional education	Centro de Formação Profissional de Braga, Portugal

2006/01/01 - 2007/07/31	Professional education	Escola Profissional do Alto Lima , Portugal

2003/02/01 - 2005/07/31	Brazilian Navy Officer - Researcher	Brazilian Navy Research Institute, Brazil
	Brazilian Navy Research Institute, Brazil
1999/02/01 - 2003/01/31	Brazilian Navy Officer - Project Manager	Brazilian Navy, Weapons Systems Directorate, Brazil
	Brazilian Navy, Weapons Systems Directorate, Brazil
1995/06/01 - 1999/10/31	Brazilian Navy Officer - Test and maintenance engineer	Brazilian Navy, Navy Electronics Center , Brazil
	Brazilian Navy, Navy Electronics Center , Brazil

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2020/12/01 - 2023/06/30	NETEDGE - EDGE COMPUTING FOR END-USERS OF OPTICAL NETWORKS 69977 Principal investigator	Agência Nacional de Inovação SA Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2018/01/01 - 2019/12/31	PROSAE PROSAE Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial
2019/09/01 - 2019/10/31	PERSIST - Patients-centered SurvivorShIp care plan after Cancer treatments based on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence technologies 875406 Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg Ongoing
2018/03/01 - 2019/10/31	NETA V3A - Virtual Assistant for Active Ageing NETAV3A Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Axencia Galega de Innovación Ongoing
2018/01/01 - 2019/10/31	CONTRA (Computational ONcology TRaining Alliance) 766030 Participant KTH Royal Institute of Technology Centre for Autonomous Systems, Sweden	Comissão Europeia Ongoing
2017/11/01 - 2019/10/31	MY-ATRIA 766082 Other Politecnico di Milano - Ingegneria Biomedica, Italy	Comissão Europeia Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/10/30	ISMAEL: Intelligent Support for Medical physicians based on Artificial intELligence ISMAEL Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial Ongoing
2018/10/01 - 2019/10/30	SHARE SHARE Researcher Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Axencia de Coñecemento en Saúde (ACIS) Concluded
2018/06/01 - 2019/10/30	AVATAR Plano de Inovação Código 100 da ACIS Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Axencia de Coñecemento en Saúde (ACIS) Concluded
2016/12/01 - 2019/05/31	GAMAPEA ITC-20161137 Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial Concluded
2016/03/01 - 2018/12/31	eDSalud eDSalud Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial Concluded
2016/08/01 - 2018/09/30	SADAS RTC-2016-5455-7 Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial Concluded
2014/04/01 - 2016/03/31	eHEART IN852A 2014/50 Principal investigator Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Axencia Galega de Innovación Concluded
2013/01/01 - 2015/02/28	HOLOS HOLOS Researcher Centro Tecnológico de Telecomunicaciones de Galicia (GRADIANT), Spain	Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2019/11/01 - 2023/10/31	Proef/dstelecom/IB-S Chair Proef/dstelecom/IB-S Chair Principal investigator Universidade do Minho Centro ALGORITMI, Portugal	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Fernandez-Lopez, Helena; Afonso, José A.; Correia, J. H.; Simoes, Ricardo. "The Need for Standardized Tests to Evaluate the Reliability of Data Transport in Wireless Medical Systems". In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 137-145. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. 10.1007/978-3-642-32778-0_11 Fernández-López, Helena; Correia, José H.; Simões, Ricardo; Afonso, José A.. "Experimental Evaluation of IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee for Multi-patient ECG Monitoring". In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 184-191. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. 10.1007/978-3-642-23635-8_23 Fernández-López, Helena; Macedo, Pedro; Afonso, José A.; Correia, J. H.; Simões, Ricardo. "Evaluation of the Impact of the Topology and Hidden Nodes in the Performance of a ZigBee Network". In Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 256-271. Pisa, Italy: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010. 10.1007/978-3-642-11528-8_18
Conference paper	Helena Fernandez-Lopez; Afonso, José A.; José Higino G. Correia; Ricardo João Ferreira Simões. "ZigBee-based Remote Patient Monitoring". Paper presented in 9th International Conference on Wearable Micro and Nano Technologies for Personalised Health (pHealth 2012), Porto, 2012. 10.3233/978-1-61499-069-7-229 Fernandez-Lopez, Helena; Afonso, Jose A.; Correia, J. H.; Simoes, Ricardo. "HM4All: A vital signs monitoring system based in spatially distributed ZigBee networks". Paper presented in Pervasive Health 2010, Munich, 2010. 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth2010.8836 Fernandez-Lopez, Helena; Macedo, Pedro; Afonso, Jose A.; Correia, J. H.; Simoes, Ricardo. "Performance evaluation of a ZigBee-based medical sensor network". Paper presented in Pervasive Health 2009, London, 2009. 10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth2009.6002
Journal article	Iria Roca; Lorena González-Castro; Lourdes Palacios; Joan Maynoud; Helena Fernandez-Lopez; Mª Luz Couce; Ana Fernández-Marmiesse. "PattRec: An easy-to-use CNV detection tool optimized for targeted NGS assays with diagnostic purposes.". Genomics (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.07.011. 10.1016/j.ygeno.2019.07.011 Iria Roca; Lorena González-Castro; Helena Fernandez-Lopez; Mª Luz Couce; Ana Fernández-Marmiesse. "Free-access copy-number variant detection tools for targeted next-generation sequencing data.". Mutation research (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrrev.2019.02.005. 10.1016/j.mrrev.2019.02.005 Fernandez-Lopez, Helena; Afonso, José A.; Correia, Jose H.; Simoes, Ricardo. "Remote Patient Monitoring Based on ZigBee: Lessons from a Real-World Deployment". Telemedicine and e-Health 20 1 (2014): 47-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/tmj.2013.0059. 10.1089/tmj.2013.0059 Fernández-López, Helena; Afonso, José A.; Correia, J.H.; Simoes, Ricardo. "Towards the design of efficient nonbeacon-enabled ZigBee networks". Computer Networks 56 11 (2012): 2714-2725. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1389128612001533. Published • 10.1016/j.comnet.2012.04.013

Activities

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2017 - 2019	Member of the technical and evaluation committee for health services, epidemiology, public and occupational health - Strategic Health Action Program Evaluator	Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
2018 - 2018	Member of the evaluation panel of project proposals in the health area of the Basque Country, Spain Specialist	Instituto Vasco de Investigaciones Sanitarias, Spain
2014 - 2015	Horizon 2020 program proposal evaluator Evaluator	Commission Européenne Représentation au Luxembourg, Luxembourg