João Miguel Serras Dias (E719-2555-339C)

Curriculum Vitae

João Miguel Serras Dias

João Miguel Serras Dias holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Aveiro (2022) and a Master’s degree in Engineering Physics (2016) also from the University of Aveiro. He started his professional career as a R&D Engineer at Indisol S.A. in 2016, where he was responsible for the development and testing of medium and high voltage sensors. In 2017, he joined the Centre from Mechanical Technology and Automation (TEMA) as a Research Fellow, and in 2023 became an effective member. In 2019, he was awarded a PhD scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), having developed his PhD Thesis in heat pumps for space and water heating. His main research interests include Applied Energy, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics, and Heat and Mass Transfer. His research is currently targeted to the heat pump technology through modelling, simulation, development, and analysis of heat pump systems. In the last 5 years he has carried out activities as a Researcher and Professor. He has participated in the Smart Green Homes project and in the Illiance Agenda, both projects being a collaboration between Bosch Thermotechnology and the University of Aveiro. In these projects he contributed to the research and development of innovative heat pumps. His research results led to several scientific publications in international journals and presentations in scientific conferences. In addition to his research activities, he also has been an Invited Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro, where he lectured 3 courses: Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Mechanics, and Technical Drawing. From 2017 to 2019, he helped lecturing 2 courses, Thermal Engineering and Thermal Systems Project.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: João Miguel Serras Dias
Gender: Male

Citation names

Dias, João M.S.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: E719-2555-339C
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7071-2439
Researcher Id: C-5469-2019
Scopus Author Id: 57203974871

Knowledge fields

Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Thermodynamics
Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering
Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Aerospace Engineering
Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Applied Mechanics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2022 Concluded	Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering (Doutoramento) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Adsorption heat pumps for space and domestic water heating" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2016/07 Concluded	Physics Engineering (Mestrado integrado) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal "Monitorização remota com sensores de fibra ótica" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2006 Concluded	Cambridge English First (Outros) Cambridge English Language Assessment Spain and Portugal, Spain

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/08 - Current	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação, Portugal
2019/11 - 2022/12	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação, Portugal
2017/08 - 2019/10	Researcher (Research)	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01 - 2023/08	Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/08	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/07/18 - 2017/07/31	I&D Engineer	Indisol, S.A., Portugal

Projects

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2023 - Current	Agenda ILLIANCE C644919832-00000035 Researcher Universidade de Aveiro Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação, Portugal	European Union Ongoing
2017/08/08 - 2020/09	SGH - Smart Green Homes POCI-01-0247-FEDER-007678 PhD Student Fellow Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal Bosch Termotecnologia, S.A., Portugal	European Regional Development Fund Concluded
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Centro de Tecnologia Mecânica e Automação UID/EMS/00481/2019 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded
2016/07/18 - 2017/07/31	SENSORGRID POCI-01-0247-FEDER-009547 Technical development Indisol, S.A., Portugal Instituto de Engenharia Mecanica e Gestao Industrial, Portugal	European Regional Development Fund Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract	Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption technologies for heating or/and cooling". Paper presented in TEchMA 2022– 5th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions, 2022. 10.48528/2smr-sn15 Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption heat pumps for space and domestic water heating". Paper presented in Research Summit 2022, 2022. 10.48528/6dz9-d129 Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Development of an adsorption heat pump prototype for domestic water heating". Paper presented in TEchMA 2021– 4th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions, 2021. 10.34624/7q83-ay77 Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption heat pumps: Towards modeling and simulation of the complete system". Paper presented in TEchMA 2020– 3rd International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions, 2020. Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption heat pumps for space and water heating". Paper presented in Research Summit 2020, 2020. Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption heat pumps for space and water heating: from component to complete system". Paper presented in 2nd International Conference of TEMA: Mobilizing Projects, 2019. Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption Heat Pumps for Domestic Water Heating and Central Heating". Paper presented in O TEMA em questão: Investigação, Aveiro, 2018. Published Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption Heat Pumps for Domestic Water Heating and Central Heating". Paper presented in O TEMA em questão: Investigação, 2018.
Conference paper	João M.S., Dias; Vítor A.F., Costa. "Adsorption cooler design, modeling, and dynamics and performance analyses". Paper presented in CYTEF 2022 - XI Congreso Ibérico \| IX Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencias y Técnicas del Frío, Cartagena, 2022. 10.31428/10317/11528 Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "A 2D TRANSIENT PHYSICAL MODEL OF A COATED TUBE ADSORBER FOR ADSORPTION HEAT PUMPS". Paper presented in CMN 2019 - Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Guimarães, 2019. Published
Conference poster	Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "A 2D transient physical model of a coated tube adsorber for adsorption heat pumps". Paper presented in Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2019. Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Adsorption Heat Pumps for Central and Domestic Water Heating". Paper presented in Ciência 2018 - Encontro de Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal, 2018.
Journal article	António B. Pereira; João M. S. Dias; José P. Rios; Nélia M. Silva; Sathishkumar Duraisamy; Ana Horovistiz. "Brazing of Copper Pipes for Heat Pump and Refrigeration Applications". Metals (2024): https://doi.org/10.3390/met14020171. 10.3390/met14020171 Vítor A.F. Costa; João M.S. Dias. "On the best coefficient of performance and specific heating or cooling power combination for adsorption refrigerators and heat pumps". International Journal of Refrigeration (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2023.04.009. 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2023.04.009 João M. S. Dias; Vítor A. F. Costa. "Adsorption Cooler Design, Dynamic Modeling, and Performance Analyses". Clean Technologies (2022): https://doi.org/10.3390/cleantechnol4040070. Published • 10.3390/cleantechnol4040070 João M.S. Dias; Vítor A.F. Costa. "Modelling and analysis of a complete adsorption heat pump system". Applied Thermal Engineering (2022): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118782. 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2022.118782 João M. S. Dias; Vítor A. F. Costa. "Modeling and Analysis of a Coated Tube Adsorber for Adsorption Heat Pumps". Energies (2021): https://doi.org/10.3390/en14216878. 10.3390/en14216878 João M.S. Dias; Vítor A.F. Costa. "Evaluating the performance of a coated tube adsorber for adsorption cooling". International Journal of Refrigeration 118 (2020): 21-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2020.06.023. 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2020.06.023 Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Which dimensional model for the analysis of a coated tube adsorber for adsorption heat pumps?". Energy (2019): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2019.03.028. 10.1016/j.energy.2019.03.028 Dias, J.M.S.; Costa, V.A.F.. "Adsorption heat pumps for heating applications: A review of current state, literature gaps and development challenges". Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 98 (2018): 317-327. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85053844378&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.rser.2018.09.026 Antunes, P.; Dias, J.; Paixão, T.; Mesquita, E.; Varum, H.; André, P.. "Liquid level gauge based in plastic optical fiber". Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation 66 (2015): 238-243. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84924054150&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.measurement.2015.01.030 Antunes, P.C.; Dias, J.M.; Varum, H.; André, P.. "Dynamic structural health monitoring of a civil engineering structure with a POF accelerometer". Sensor Review 34 1 (2014): 36-41. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84892401308&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1108/SR-04-2013-656 Antunes, Paulo; Dias, João; Varum, Humberto; André, P. S.. "A Plastic Optical Fiber Accelerometer Suitable for Marine Applications". Marine Engineering Frontiers 1 4 (2013): 69-74. https://www.academia.edu/27933106/A_Plastic_Optical_Fiber_Accelerometer_Suitable_for_Marine_Applications. Published
Magazine article	Dias, João M.S.; Costa, Vítor A.F.. "Modelling and analysis of a complete adsorption heat pump system", Research@ua, 2022, https://proa.ua.pt/index.php/researchua/issue/view/1159/397.
Thesis / Dissertation	"Adsorption heat pumps for space and domestic water heating". PhD, Universidade de Aveiro, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/35634. Dias, João Miguel Serras. "Monitorização remota com sensores de fibra ótica". Master, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/17319.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/06/07	Electron Beam Welding for Heat Pump Manufacturing	TEchMA 2024 - 7th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/06/06	Induction brazing of copper pipes for the manufacturing of heat pumps	TEchMA 2024 - 7th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/06/06	Heat pumps evaporators frosting and defrosting numerical model implementation and adjustment	TEchMA 2024 - 7th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/06/06	Development of a software application for heat pumps heat exchangers performance evaluation and analysis	TEchMA 2024 - 7th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions (Aveiro, Portugal)
2024/06/06	Development of a real-time monitoring system for gas emissions from industrial chimneys	TEchMA 2024 - 7th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022	Adsorption cooler design, modeling, and dynamics and performance analyses	CYTEF 2022 - XI Congreso Ibérico \| IX Congreso Iberoamericano de Ciencias y Técnicas del Frío Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (Cartagena, Spain)
2022	Adsorption technologies for heating or/and cooling	TEchMA 2022 5th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2022	Adsorption heat pumps for space and domestic water heating (5' pitch)	Research Summit 2022 Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2021	Development of an adsorption heat pump prototype for domestic water heating	TEchMA 2021 4th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2020	Adsorption heat pumps for space and water heating (5' pitch)	Research Summit 2020 Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2019/07/04	Adsorption heat pumps for space and water heating (5' pitch)	Research Summit 2019 University of Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2019/07/02	A 2D TRANSIENT PHYSICAL MODEL OF A COATED TUBE ADSORBER FOR ADSORPTION HEAT PUMPS	Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering University of Minho (Guimarães, Portugal)
2019	Adsorption heat pumps for space and water heating: from component to complete system	2nd International Conference of TEMA: Mobilizing Projects Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2019	Adsorption heat pumps for space and water heating	Third International Workshop on Advances in Engineering of Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/11/29	Adsorption heat pumps for central and domestic water heating (5' pitch)	Research Summit 2018 Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)
2018/06/11	Adsorption Heat Pumps for Domestic Water Heating and Central Heating	O TEMA em questão: Investigação Universidade de Aveiro (Aveiro, Portugal)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024 - Current	Electron beam welding of copper and stainless-steel pipes for the manufacturing of heat pumps Supervisor	Engenharia Mecânica (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024 - Current	Optimization of induction brazing parameters for joining copper pipes and similar metals in heat pump manufactures Co-supervisor	Engenharia Mecânica (PhD) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - Current	Implementação e ajuste de modelos numéricos de congelamento e descongelamento em evaporadores de bombas de calor Co-supervisor	Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - Current	Interface gráfica para visualização de parâmetros de desempenho de permutadores de calor Supervisor	Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - Current	Modelação por CFD do sistema de ventilação do evaporador de bombas de calor para aquecimento de águas domésticas Supervisor	Engenharia Computacional (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - Current	Desenvolvimento de Motor para Foguete Sonda Co-supervisor	Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - Current	Desenvolvimento e Automação do processo de interface entre equipamentos de medição de efluentes gasosos e reporte de dados Supervisor	Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - Current	Desenvolvimento de uma câmara climática passiva controlada remotamente Supervisor	Engenharia Mecânica (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Development of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine Co-supervisor	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023 - 2024	Development of a software application for calculation and analysis of the performance of heat exchangers in heat pumps Supervisor	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/04/08 - 2024/04/10	Online course - Simulink Fundamentals Workshop	Simulink Fundamentals Mathworks Inc, United States
2020/12/09 - 2020/12/10	Advancing the Blue Economy through Intercontinental Collaboration Seminar	WavEC Offshore Renewables, Portugal
2019 - 2019	Introduction to Computational Fluid Dynamics Workshop	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/10/11 - 2018/10/13	Scientific monitor Exhibition	TECHDAYS 2018 Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
2018/08/08 - 2018/08/20	Scientific Monitor Exhibition	Academia de Verão UA 2018 Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Portugal
2015/11/23 - 2015/11/27	Scientific monitor Exhibition	2015 Open Week of Science and Technology Universidade de Aveiro Departamento de Física, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024	Development of a software application for calculation and analysis of the performance of heat exchangers in heat pumps Supervisor	Nuno Alves Sousa (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2024	Development of Liquid Propellant Rocket Engine Supervisor	Tiago Vaz Gândara (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/12/05	Caracterização e melhoria do rendimento de caldeiras a vapor President of the jury	João Pedro Santos Almeida (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2023/11/28	Sustentabilidade no setor transportador: utilização de energia eólica como fonte energética para o Metropolitano de Lisboa President of the jury	Diogo Filipe de Sousa Esteves (Master) Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/04 - Current	Applied Thermal Engineering (1873-5606)	Elsevier
2021 - Current	Processes (2227-9717)	MDPI
2021 - Current	Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (2213-3437)	Elsevier
2020 - Current	Energy Conversion and Management (0196-8904)	Elsevier
2019/03/08 - Current	Energies (1996-1073)	MDPI AG
2019/01/11 - Current	Symmetry (2073-8994)	MDPI AG
2018/11/23 - Current	Applied Sciences (2076-3417)	MDPI AG

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2024 - 2024	TEchMA 2024 - 7th International Conference on Technologies for the Wellbeing and Sustainable Manufacturing Solutions

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2019 - Current	Performance tests for adsorption heat pumps in collaboration with Bosch Thermotechnology.

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2022/02 - 2022/08	Mecânica dos Fluidos	Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2022/02 - 2022/08	Mecânica de Fluidos Computacional	Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2020/02 - 2022/08	Desenho Técnico	Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2018/02 - 2019/07/31	Engenharia Térmica	Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
2017/09 - 2019/02	Projeto de Sistemas Térmicos	Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado)	Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

Evaluation committee

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization	Funding entity
2024 - Current	Evaluator of the Portugal 2030 Projects, Productive Innovation (calls MPr–2023 –1 and MPr–2023 –2). Evaluator	Agência para a Competitividade e Inovação IP, Portugal
2016/01 - 2016/06	Member of external evaluation committees of the Higher Education Assessment and Accreditation Agency (A3ES) Member	A3ES - Agência de Avaliação e Acreditação do Ensino Superior, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2019/01/11 - Current	Symmetry (2073-8994)	MDPI

Distinctions

Award

2018	Best Pitch Award at Research Summit 2018 Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal