Pedro Matias (9211-65D9-8F53)

Curriculum Vitae

Pedro Matias

Pedro Matias has a BSc in Technological Physics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico (1998), a MSc in Mathematical Physics at University of Cambridge (1999) and a PhD in Mathematics at Instituto Superior Técnico (2006). He was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Radboud University Nijmegen for six months and he started his academic career as an Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of Portugal where he stayed until 2012. From 2009 to 2012 he was also Vice-Director for academic affairs and internal quality assurance of the Faculty of Engineering. From 2012 to 2020 he was a Project Coordinator at the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES). During this period, he had a service commission of one year and a half and he was a Counsellor in the Cabinet of the Secretary of State for Higher Education working on the funding model for the Portuguese higher education system. Since December 2020, he is an Associate Professor at Lusófona University. His main scientific interests are in the areas of Dynamical Systems and Differential Geometry.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Pedro Matias

Citation names

Pedro Matias

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 9211-65D9-8F53
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2243-0541

Email addresses

pedro.matias@ulusofona.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Lusófona University, RCM2+ Research Centre for Asset Management and Systems Engineering, Campo Grande, 376, 1749-024, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Exact Sciences - Mathematics
Social Sciences - Educational Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Beginner (A1)	Advanced (C1)	Beginner (A1)	Advanced (C1)	Beginner (A1)
French	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)	Intermediate (B1)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2001/09/01 - 2006/02/06 Concluded	Mathematics (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Geometric Quantization and the Coherent State Transform" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Approved
1998/10/01 - 1999/07/31 Concluded	Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics (DEA) University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, United Kingdom	A
1992/09/01 - 1998/08/31 Concluded	Technological Physics Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Precessão de Giroscópios: Relatividade Geral versus Teoria de Cordas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	17

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/06/01 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
	RCM2+ Centro de Investigação em Gestão de Ativos e Engenharia de Sistemas, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/12/01 - Current	Associate Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

2006/09/01 - 2012/01/31	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Campus Sintra, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/02 - 2020/11	Project Coordinator	Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2006/03 - 2006/08	Post-doctoral grant SFRH/BPD/22975/2005 Post-doc Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
1998/10 - 2002/09	PhD grant PRAXIS XXI/BD/15791/98 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2024/01/01 - 2028/12/31	WIRE - Widening Innovation+Research Excellence in FilmEU 101136627 Researcher Universidade Lusófona, Portugal Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Ireland LUCA School of Arts vzw, Belgium Tallin University - Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Estonia VIA University College, Denmark Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija, Lithuania	European Commission Ongoing
2023/11/01 - 2027/10/31	FilmEU Plus - European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts (FilmEU Plus) 101124314 Researcher Universidade Lusófona, Portugal LUCA School of Arts vzw, Belgium Institute of Art, Design+Technology, Ireland Tallin University - Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Estonia VIA University College, Denmark Lietuvos muzikos ir teatro akademija, Lithuania	European Commission Ongoing
2023/04/01 - 2024/03/31	ETIKETA - FilmEU Degree label 101114586 - ERASMUS-EDU-2022-POL-EXP-EUdegree Researcher Universidade Lusófona, Portugal LUCA School of Arts - Campus Gent/Sint-Lucas, Belgium Tallin University - Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Estonia Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Ireland	European Commission Ongoing
2020/11/01 - 2023/10/31	FilmEU - European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts (FilmEU) 101004047 Researcher Universidade Lusófona, Portugal LUCA School of Arts vzw, Belgium Tallin University - Baltic Film, Media and Arts School, Estonia Institute of Art, Design+Technology, Ireland	European Commission Concluded
2012/03/01 - 2015/06/30	Hamiltonian actions and Integrability in Geometry and Topology PTDC/MAT/117762/2010 Researcher Associação do Instituto Superior Técnico para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento, Portugal Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2005/07/01 - 2007/10/30	Moduli Spaces and String Theory POCI/MAT/58549/2004 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2000 - 2002	Moduli Spaces, Integrability and String Theory POCTI/MAT/33943/99 PhD Student Fellow	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Pedro Matias; Damásio, Manuel. "Redefining Sustainability in Higher Education Governance: The European Universities Case". In Innovation and Evolution in Tertiary Education. United Kingdom: IntechOpen, 2024. Accepted • 10.5772/intechopen.1005297 Matias, Pedro; Carpentier, Rui. "Nós, elos, tranças e seus invariantes". In Proceedings da Escola Diagonal 2005, edited by Cannas da Silva, Ana, 41-66. Portugal: IST Press, 2006. Published
Journal article	Machado-Taylor, Maria de Lurdes; Matias, Pedro. "Governance in Higher Education Institutions: a glimpse from the US". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 7 3 (2022): 64-77. http://dx.doi.org/10.24140/ijfma.v7.n3.05. Published • 10.24140/ijfma.v7.n3.05 Matias, Pedro. "On the BKS pairing for Kähler quantizations of the cotangent bundle of a Lie group". Journal of Functional Analysis 234 1 (2006): 180-198. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2005.12.007. 10.1016/j.jfa.2005.12.007 Matias, Pedro. "Geometric quantization, complex structures and the coherent state transform". Journal of Functional Analysis 221 2 (2005): 303-322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfa.2004.10.021. 10.1016/j.jfa.2004.10.021
Report	WP9 Quality Assurance. 2023. Handbook Future Approach to FilmEU QA. ETK2 Mapping. 2023. ETIKETA Label Content and Requirements. WP7 Joint Future Governance. 2023. Handbook of Management and Governance in FilmEU. WP9 Quality Assurance. 2021. Best Practices in the Arts International Perspectives. WP7 Joint Future Governance. 2021. Best Practices - Governance Models. Matias, Pedro. 2015. Modelo de financiamento do ensino superior: fórmulas e procedimentos.
Thesis / Dissertation	Matias, Pedro. "Geometric quantization and the coherent state transform". PhD, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 2006. Matias, Pedro. "Precessão de giroscópios: relatividade geral versus teoria de cordas". Degree, Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, 1998.
Working paper	Pedro Matias; Lopes, Sérgio; Pinto, Iola; Aleixo, Sandra; Ricardo Enguiça; Lucía Fernández-Suárez. Corresponding author: Lopes, Sérgio. 2022. "Availability of Hydropressor Systems". https://www.cambridge.org/engage/miir/article-details/636ce700deff976246dedd0e. 10.33774/miir-2022-ntj1x

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/07/11	Geodesic flows in semi-Riemannian geometry	Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2023/10/19	Positive topological entropy for semi-Riemannian geodesic flows	Topological Methods in Dynamics Faculty of Sciences - University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/05/17	Resta Um Infinito - o meu jogo de Matemática favorito	VII Jornadas de Engenharia e Gestão Industrial Faculdade de Engenharia - Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/07	A Glimpse Into Ergodic Optimization	Lisbon Dynamical Systems Seminar (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/03/24	Governance models in higher education - a glimpse around Europe	FILMEU WP7 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/02/18	Accreditation system for higher education - the Portuguese case	FILMEU WP9 (Lisboa, Portugal)
2020/11/16	A3ES results: gender representations in external assessment teams and programme coordination teams	Webinar GE-HEI - Igualdade de Género nas Instituições de Ensino Superior (Portugal)
2013/04/13	The role of A3ES in the assessment of higher education in Portugal	VIth Oporto Academic Federation Form Pousada da Juventude de Ovar (Ovar, Portugal)
2004/01	What is geometric quantization?	Young European Research on Mechanics Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal)
2003/06/11	Geometric quantization, complex structures and the coherent state transform	Seminar Utrecht University Spinoza Institute (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2007 - 2008	Colóquio da Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade Católica Portuguesa (2007 - 2008) Seminar (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Campus Sintra, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/06/03 - 2024/06/06	FilmEU Summit 2024 Conference	FilmEU Summit 2024 Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU), Slovakia
2024/04/29 - 2024/04/29	Final conference with EC and Erasmus+ pilots "A blueprint for a European degree" Conference	A blueprint for a European degree Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2024/02/05 - 2024/02/05	CV Narrativo Seminar	Webinar CV Narrativo Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023/12/15 - 2023/12/15	Como cumprir o acesso aberto? Seminar	Como cumprir o acesso aberto? Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2023/10/03 - 2023/10/05	FilmEU Summit 2023 Conference	FilmEU Summit 2023 LUCA School of Arts vzw, Belgium
2023/09/13 - 2023/09/13	ETIKETA - First Outcomes and Future Directions Workshop	ETIKETA - First Outcomes and Future Directions Universitat de Barcelona Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Spain
2023/07/06 - 2023/07/06	Manhãs de Matemática na AbERTA - Sistemas Dinâmicos Meeting	Manhãs de Matemática na AbERTA - Sistemas Dinâmicos Universidade Aberta Departamento de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/05/24 - 2023/05/26	Spring School on Dynamical Systems Other	LxDS Spring School 2023 ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Matematica Aplicada à Previsão e Decisão Económica, Portugal
2023/05/03 - 2023/05/05	Spreading innovative results from European University Alliances to other higher education institutions Conference	Spreading innovative results from European University Alliances to other higher education institutions Österreichische Agentur für internationale Mobilität und Kooperation in Bildung Wissenschaft und Forschung, Austria Tempus Közalapítvány, Hungary Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Germany Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, Norway
2023/02/02 - 2023/02/03	Autonomy and Governance in Portuguese Higher Education Conference	Autonomy and Governance in Portuguese Higher Education EDULOG Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo, Portugal
2022/12/13 - 2022/12/14	CHARM-EU '22 Annual Conference looking back and looking forward Conference	CHARM-EU '22 Annual Conference looking back and looking forward Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
2022/10/20 - 2022/10/21	1º Simpósio Português sobre Filosofia e Inteligência Artificial Symposium	1º Simpósio Português sobre Filosofia e Inteligência Artificial Forum Cultural de Alcochete, Portugal
2022/10/18 - 2022/10/18	Novos paradigmas de ensino e formação: a transformação do ensino superior Workshop	Novos paradigmas de ensino e formação: a transformação do ensino superior Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2022/09/05 - 2022/09/09	161st European Study Group With Industry Meeting	161st European Study Group With Industry Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/07/18 - 2022/07/20	Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática Conference	Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal
2022/07/06 - 2022/07/14	Virtual International Congress of Mathematics 2022 Conference	Virtual International Congress of Mathematics 2022 International Mathematical Union, Germany
2022/07/05 - 2022/07/06	EIT HEI Initiative IVAP Workshop - Barcelona Workshop	EIT HEI Initiative IVAP Workshop - Barcelona World Trade Center Barcelona, Spain
2022/06/22 - 2022/06/22	Time Series Analysis and Prediction with R Workshop	Time Series Analysis and Prediction with R Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
2022/06/21 - 2022/06/21	Introduction to Data Science in R Workshop	Introduction to Data Science in R Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/06/21 - 2022/06/21	Machine Learning Models in R Workshop	Machine Learning Models in R Universidade Nova de Lisboa Departamento de Matemática, Portugal
2022/06/06 - 2022/06/10	FilmEU Summit 2022 Conference	FilmEU Summit 2022 Institute of Art, Design+Technology, Ireland
2022/05/05 - 2022/05/05	Future Governance Models of the European Universities Conference	Future Governance Models of the European Universities LUCA School of Arts - Campus Gent/Sint-Lucas, Belgium
2022/02/07 - 2022/02/11	New Trends in Lyapunov Exponents Conference	New Trends in Lyapunov Exponents ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal
2021/09/21 - 2021/09/24	FilmEU Summit 2021 Conference	FilmEU Summit Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2021/08/02 - 2021/08/06	33º Colóquio Brasileiro de Matemática Conference	33º Colóquio Brasileiro de Matemática Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática, Brazil
2021/06/12 - 2021/06/16	Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática Conference	Encontro Nacional da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, Portugal
2018/02/26 - 2018/02/26	Women in Physics Round table	V Jornadas de Engenharia Física Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2021/01 - Current	Sociedade Portuguesa de Estatística
2021/01 - Current	European Mathematical Society
2021/01 - Current	EIGeS - Centro de Investigação em Engenharia Industrial, Sustentabilidade e Gestão	Integrated Researcher
2020/12 - Current	CEMAPRE - Centro de Matemática Aplicada à Previsão e Decisão Económica	Associated Researcher
2001/01/01 - Current	Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática
2010/01/01 - 2014/12/31	TeX Users Group
2001/01/01 - 2011/12/31	American Mathematical Society

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2020/11/01 - 2023/10/31	Portuguese Team Leader for the Work Packages of Joint Governance and Quality Assurance in the European Project FilmEU - The European University for Film and Media Arts	Universidade Lusófona, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2021/10 - Current	Álgebra Linear	Engenharia e Gestão Industrial, Engenharia do Ambiente (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2021/10 - Current	Cálculo I	Engenharia e Gestão Industrial, Engenharia do Ambiente (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2021/02 - Current	Cálculo II	Engenharia e Gestão Industrial, Engenharia do Ambiente (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusófona, Portugal
2021/02 - Current	Equações Diferenciais	Engenharia e Gestão Industrial, Engenharia do Ambiente (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusófona, Portugal