Afonso Ferreira

Directeur de Recherche au CNRS

MASCOTTE Project
Laboratory I3S & INRIA Sophia Antipolis
France

New position as of March 15, 2004: 

Scientific Officer
for
Telecommunications, Information Sciences, and Technology (TIST)
at the
COST Office
Brussels, Belgium

 

Short Curriculum Vitae

 

Afonso Ferreira is the Scientific Officer for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) at the COST Office, in Brussels. COST is an intergovernmental initiative for European Cooperation in Science and Technology spanning 35 countries.

 

Dr. Ferreira is also a Directeur de Recherche with the French CNRS and spent 7 years working with the French INRIA. He has over fifteen years of experience in the area of Communication Networks, High Performance Computing, and Algorithms, having published more than 100 papers in the forefront of scientific research. He has been member of more than 60 Technical Program Committees for international events and is currently an editorial board member for three international scientific journals. Dr. Ferreira has also been member of Technical Committees of IEEE and IFIP and was at the origin of eight European projects from FP3 through FP6.

 

Currently, Dr. Ferreira manages some 25 Pan-European projects in the COST-ICT domain, regrouping more than 2000 researchers in such important areas like e-Society, Information Security, Communication Networks, and Nanotechnologies. He has a vast array of knowledge concerning ICT Foundations, Applications, Policy, and Human Capital. Lately, he has been specialising in Innovation Policy and Competitive Intelligence. Dr. Ferreira is an accredited expert to the Research Councils of Norway, Switzerland, and Sweden, to FET, and to the French RNRT.

 

Above all, Dr. Ferreira is process oriented and solution driven. He is fluent in English, French, and Portuguese, and has very good knowledge of Spanish and Italian.

 

 

Some research activities of Afonso Ferreira:

Member of the editorial boards of the journals:

He also served as:

  • Guest Editor for MONET, ParCo, JPDC, TCS, and PPL.
  • Conference General Chair for IEEE IPDPS and for STACS.
  • Programme Chair for STACS, IRREGULAR, and WOCS.
  • Workshops Chair for the ACM/IEEE Mobicom.
  • Programme Committee member of IEEE IPDPS, ICALP, STACS, EuroPar, IEEE HiPC, IEEE MPPOI, EuroPVM, ParCo, and many others.

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For more information consult the following pages:

Publications 

Conference Pointers 

I3S Directory 

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